01/08/2010
Great website! I lived in Sycamore Avenue from 1958-64, then Chestnut Avenue till 1980. My Mother still lives there.Educated at Newark Hill School and Deacon's School.]]>08/07/2010
I was born in heather avenue 1962 in which my parents lived for 4 years before and i left home in 1983 at the age of 21, ever since i have lived in peterborough moving back to dogsthorpe in 2003 i have always been intrested in it history, i went to the dogsthorpe school and from their i went to john mansfields all girls school. i now live in chestnut avenue]]>13/03/2010
we moved to western ave in the 50.s peter twins judy and jilly tony and jane lived their untill parents died in 1989 some of us stii live on estate]]>08/03/2010
I lived at 1 Elmfield Road for the first 16 years of my life, from 1953 to 1969. I was very interested to see some of the history of the area. My grandfather owned an orchard behind the house at Garton End. He kept pigs there before he sold it to The Kings' School for playing fields. I played there as a child, helped him feed the pigs and remember it was used for car parking for the East of England show when it was held on Eastfield Avenue. My younger sister and I both went to Dogsthorpe School. I remember very clearly copying the date into my book one Friday in 1959.]]>05/03/2010
I moved into Chestnut Avenue in 1950 when I was but a few weeks old. I would dearly ove to write a book about the families who moved on to that new estate at the same time.]]>03/01/2010
William Kitchen Parker is my wife, Robyn's, Great Grandfather. We were delighted to read so much detailed information about Dogsthorpe on your website. To be able to locate the actual site of Sly's Farm from where the Parker family originated was especially poignant. William's eldest son, Thomas Jeffery Parker was a world renown biologist who left Britain in 1880 to help establish the Biology Dept of the University of Otago in New Zealand. He wrote a biography of his father in 1893 from which much of the Wikipedia article is taken and until now has been our only source of information about Dogsthorpe. Your site has helped significantly to extend our knowledge of the Parker family in Dogsthorpe. Thank you.]]>20/12/2009
We moved to live at no 3 Central Avenue (opposite the Comet pub) in 1948, when I was 12. I went to Deacons School and one of my friends was Barry Cowland, who lived in Elmfield Road, as did Bill Buglass. I am still in contact with another friend, Keith Cuthbert, who lived the Bluebell end of St Paul's Road. My cousin, Martin Taylor, lived in Welland Road and he still lives in Lawn Avenue. I now live in Sussex after many years in London, having more or less left Peterborough when I was 18, for the RAF, college and then working in Bristol and London as a journalist. I was, before Bristol, briefly on the Evening Telegraph and the Wisbech Advertiser.]]>