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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Death of Thomas Alderson Cooke

1854

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Thomas Alderson Cooke was born in Salford and moved to Peterborough where he became a local magistrate, Sherriff of Northamptonshire and later High Sherriff.

He married Julia Image, the daughter of the late vicar of St John's church John Image and had 10 surviving children. He had 4 wives in total, including a very public annulment of the marriage to his second wife Charlotte Squires, who was many years younger than him.

He is best known for commissioning a large mansion on Priestgate in 1816, on top of Neville Place, which is now home to Peterborough Museum and the Dower House on the corner of Trinity Street, which was built in the 1840s for his fourth wife upon his death. It was a church for some years and is currently a nursery.

He was a magistrate for many years and continued to preside until the week before he died, despite being incapacitated. He died in December 1854, after which his house was bought by the Fitzwilliams in an auction and gifted to the city as an infirmary.

Priestgate , Victorian , Thomas Alderson Cooke , John Image , Magistrate

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