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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We have a fascinating insight into Roman lives in what is now Ferry Meadows thanks to the Coney Meadow Cemetery, which was in use around 200-300AD. Archaeologists discovered that the people who were buried here had tough lives, through analysis of skeletons found at the site. These skeletons give us an understanding of death and disease in Roman Britain, through a family with arm abnormalities, children with ear infections and women with new-born babies. There were also fragments of cheap, rough pottery close to the burials and a large aisled barn nearby.

Nene Park , Ferry Meadows , Roman , Cemetery

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