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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Mesolithic Parnwell Way Archaeology

10,000 BC

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Parnwell is one of the newer areas of Peterborough, built beside the old village of Newark and separated from the rest of the city by the Frank Perkins Parkway. The recent addition of industrial and commercial buildings to the east of Parnwell way is revealing that Parnwell has a long past.

Evidence has been found of people living and travelling through the Parnwell area since the Mesolithic period, around 8-10,000 years ago, when Britain was still connected to mainline Europe. Archaeological remains have been found between Parnwell Way and Eyebury Road that suggest people lived in and used the area during Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Medieval times; evidence for other time periods hasn't been found... yet. Evidence has included ditches belonging to field systems, ring ditches, a round house, pots, urns, cremations, arrow heads, an axe head and animal remains. A Roman site, where the Tesco Distribution Centre is at present, contained evidence of corn drying, a quern stone, a brooch and tegula (roof tile), as well as human and animal remains suggesting that people were living there in the Roman period.

Roman , Pottery , Bronze Age , Iron Age , Medieval , round houses

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14/07/1855

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