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Who Should Live in Castor

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25/01/1913

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At the monthly meeting of the Peterborough Rural District Council on this Saturday there was a deep debate recorded by the Peterborough Citizen the following Tuesday under the headline 'Castor invasion by Peterborough house hunters - What Castor Expects.' Peterborough was expanding and new houses were desperately needed, leading to what we now call 'Not in my backyard' syndrome rearing its head. Castor parish council did not think it was desirable to erect the proposed houses and suggested a different type of house, each having a rood of land and being more suitable for widows and retired men. Cllr Goodyer argued that the new houses should be for working men, as there were already more cottages for the elderly than workers in Castor. Cllr Kemp commented that there were already plenty of cottages for widows and old men. It was workmen's cottages that were needed now. Cllr Lee responded that he did not think that, as agricultural people, they would not be able to pay the rent. The clerk, having heard these comments, concluded that it would be impossible for people to pay 4s 6d and rates. The meeting moved on with no decision recorded.

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

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King John and the Great Charter

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King John stayed at Peterborough's monastery, using it as a base of operations to attack his enemies in the region in the Civil War that followed him first agreeing to, and then ripping up the Magna Carta. He may have left a draft copy of the Magna Carta in the monastery, hence the inclusion of it in one of the monastery’s cartularies, known today as ‘the Black Book of Peterborough'. The Black Book is kept at the Society of Antiquaries in London.

George Phillip's book on Peterborough Cathedral from 1881 states that many local monasteries in the area were damaged during the civil war of King John's reign, but Peterborough appeared to escape damage, for the monks did not write about it. The book is available to read online thanks to Project Gutenburg and can be accessed in the links.

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