Speeding!

20/09/1907

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The Stamford Mercury of 25 October records the court appearance of Joseph Hodierne of Coventry. Joseph had been summoned for driving a motorcar at a dangerous speed at Wansford on this day. PC King told the court that Hodierne had been driving at a rate of 18mph. The defendant retorted that he had in fact been driving at 8mph! The court believed PC King and Joseph was fined £7 10s plus 3s costs.

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

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By 1500 BC the lower Nene Valley and Fen-edge regions of Peterborough had become one of the most prosperous landscapes in prehistoric Britain, fertile and rich in resources.The local population was well into the thousands and there were tens of thousands of cattle and sheep grazing the elaborately arranged field systems around the Fen margins. Most of the farms and settlements were on the drier, flood-free margins of the wetlands, but a few were constructed over the water on wooden piles, such as the one at Must Farm.

Bronze Age , Must Farm , River Nene , fen , wetland

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