Notes on
Old Peterborough,

BY
ANDREW PERCIVAL, S.S.C.,

With Eight Illustrations,

INCLUDING

Portrait of the Author.

Arranged, Published, and Sold by Special Permission
of the Author,

BY
The PETERBOROUGH ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

ONE SHILLING.

PETERBOROUGH:
GEO. C. CASTER, MARKET PLACE.
1905.

[Reprinted from type of the “Peterborough Advertiser.”]

PREFACE.

The Reminiscences of a Citizen whose memory goes back in detail for over Seventy Years, as in the case of the Contributor of these Notes, cannot fail to be of paramount interest and of antiquarian value.  Especially in this case, where the distinguished Narrator has held a very foremost place in the Professional life and Voluntary Public Service of the City.  Additionally interesting must they prove in the case of a City which has developed from a comparatively small parish into a populous industrial, commercial and residential Centre.  The Peterborough Archæological Society has in these circumstances undertaken the duty of preserving and circulating in compact form the very valuable personal Recollections of Mr. Andrew Percival.  In doing so the Society acknowledges its indebtedness to that gentleman for his ready permission to entrust them to its charge.  The writer of this Preface was present at the old Wentworth Rooms, at Peterborough, in the years 1883–4, when the addresses which formed the basis of this chronicle were delivered.  He thus felt a continuity of interest when the manuscript was recently committed to him to prepare, with illustrations, for advance publication in the “Peterborough Advertiser,” in September, 1905, and in bringing up to date, during the indisposition of the Author, several of the chronological and statistical references.  Otherwise the Notes remain exactly as set down and corrected by Mr. Percival.  The Society expresses its thanks to Mr. A. C. Taylor for the use of the very excellent photo of Mr. Percival which forms the frontispiece; to Mr. T. N. Green (Ball & Co.) for the Photo of the Old Bridge; and to Mr. Geo. C. Caster for the use of “Whittlesey Mere” block, from “Fenland Notes & Queries”; most of the others having been specially taken and engraved for this Publication.

F. L.

Peterborough, Oct., 1905.

INDEX.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. [5]