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The Stamford Mercury tells us that there were, on Good Friday and Easter Monday, various entertainments provided for the public to suit the respective tastes of the Peterborians, neighbours and visitors. I wondered what these may have been and tried to investigate. Well, on this day - Good Friday - in Peterborough town, the recreation ground was well filled while 'various sports were indulged in'. What these 'various sports' were is not recorded so I'll let your imagination bring these to life. There were also several large tea parties, one of which was held at the Grand Hotel in Wentworth Street - a significant establishment then vying for central Peterborough ascendancy with the Angel just round the corner - while another was at the Drill Hall.  One I would like to have attended was the 'monster' tea party at New England. I'm not too sure, though, that I would have liked to have rounded off the day sitting through the lecture by Mr George Goodwin, which was 'remarkably well delivered and much appreciated, there being a fashionable platform and a very good audience in the body of the room'. The Mercury tells of the platform and the audience, but nothing about the lecture. Perhaps the journalist went to sleep!

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

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Ferry Meadows Pun

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1950s

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On a map of Horrell’s Farm Tenancies from the 1950s, it shows the names of all the fields and land to the west of Peterborough. One of the features is Ferry Meadows, so named by the original ferry that ran across the river Nene to the north of the meadows. It was replaced by a large stone bridge many years ago, which is currently known as Milton Ferry Bridge, but for many years was known simply as Ferry Bridge and formed a group with Ferry Meadows and Ferry Hill.

The area now known as Ferry Meadows Country Park, part of Nene Park, was divided up into separate fields separated by ditches still in place today. The fields to the east of the site and now partly submerged under Overton Lake were known as 1st, 2nd and 3rd Ferry Meadow. Another field close to the bridge was known as Bridge Ferry, but the award for the best field pun goes to the large field to the west of the site, largely under Gunwade Lake now, which was known as Ferry Big Meadow! 

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Horrell's Farm Tenancies, Peterborough Archive NOS/02/6/4

Maps of Peterborough accessed on old-maps.co.uk from 1886-19

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