School for Young Ladies

14/07/1855

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The following notice appeared in the Peterborough Advertiser:

The MISSES STRICKLAND RESPECTFULLY inform their Friends and the Public that they intend opening a School after the Midsummer Vacation, for the instruction of young Ladies. With hopeful confidence they solicit a share of public patronage, assuring their friends that every effort will be used for advancement of the pupils entrusted to their charge. The First Quarter will commence on Monday July 16th 1855. TERMS - Young Ladies are Boarded and Instructed in Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, History etc., at £18 18s per annum. Day pupils: 10s 6d per quarter. Laundress: Two Guineas per annum. A Quarter's Notice previous to the removal of a young lady. Each young lady to be provided with a pair of sheets, a fork and spoon, which will be returned on their leaving. 34 Cowgate Street, Peterborough.

Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.

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Cumbergate Workhouse Created

1721

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In 1721 a house that had been built by wool merchants was bought by the town Feoffees to be used as a workhouse. The house in question is on Cumbergate, which was the centre of the wool industry in Peterborough, and now sits next to the entrance to Queensgate. It is listed as 'The Almsrooms' on the British Listed Buildings website but was known recently for many years as Burghley Academy.

The house has been dated to the fifteenth century, making it one of the oldest timber-framed buildings in the city. It was converted in 1721 to make it suitable as a workhouse, with cell-like rooms over three floors.

In Edwardian times the building was converted from a workhouse into almshouses along with the construction of Miss Pear’s Almshouses. The north eastern extension was supposedly added and dormer windows removed as well as others replaced. The current rooms of the building reflect the separate living quarters of the inhabitants, but they were further renovated in the late 20th century. The Peterborough Town Plan Map from 1886 shows two long rows of small houses running out from the back of the main house culminating in a little courtyard area. Most of this has been lost, but it is still a splendid building with many original features worth viewing.

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Cumbergate Workhouse Created

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