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21/01/2012clive bell
dogsthorpe fire brigde
01/01/2012Graeme Abbott
Emigrated to Sheffield, South Yorks, in 1970 but still return to the area for family research. Attended Fulbridge School and remember great rivalry between us and Dogsthorpe Junior who also had a good football team! Fond memories of playing 'kick the can' on Bluebell Hill (near Welland Close) which seemed huge at the time - a child's paradise of trees, bushes and nobody to trouble you!
30/12/2011Paul Froggitt
Moved into one of the first houses in 'new' Dogsthorpe in 1948 - Rowan Avenue.
Spent my first year at school in the old school in Welland Road and then went to the Central Avenue school when it opened; Miss Rate first teacher, Miss Higgett headmistress.
25/12/2011BRONWYN ANN MARIA [EDWARDS] BLACKWELDER
MOVED FROM LONG SUTTON TO DOGSTHORPE IN 1961 ATTENDED JOHN MANSFIELD. I NOW LIVE IN THE US.
19/12/2011Ian
I think my 2nd Great Grandfather was the groom and gardener living at the Grange Lodge in 1891!
14/12/2011Invicta Watches
This blog is very well written and I appreciate your efforts.. Keep up the good work. <a href="http://www.ewatches.com/results.asp?bo_brand_id=2269">Invicta Watches</a>
24/11/2011Nathan Jensen
Re Rex Sly: in your 02/11/2011 message you mention a connection to Ralph Peirson. My wife descends from Ralph Peirson through his daughter Rebecca. Do you have any further information on Ralph Peirson's ancestry?
02/11/2011Brian Ross
My Grandfather John Ross was born at Dogsthorpe, Peterborough in April 1876 to William Ross and Elizabeth(formerly Hard). William Ross is shown as a Groom on the birth certificate. I have no idea where they lived when he was born but thought it may be on the census. My Grandfather & family immigrated to New Zealand in 1909.
02/11/2011Rex Sly Crowland Peterborough
My family moved from Dogsthorpe to Thorney in the late 1600s.
Walter Sly married Susanna Peirson who's father Ralph Peirson was a steward to the Duke of Bedfords Estate at Thorney where our family still farm to this day. Walter Sly was left money from his father in law if he left Dogsthorpe and moved to Thorney, which he did. There is a record stating that in 1673 a house of Walter sly was licenced for the use by a Presberterian minister. Does anyone have any knowledge on this event.
I can be contacted on my website; www.rexslyinthefens.com
23/10/2011Gillian
Looking at the map of Dogsthorpe I noticed that John Mansfield school isn't shown. Is it not there anymore?
23/10/2011Gillian
I noticed that an Emma Plant was a servant at the laurals in the late 1800's. Does anyone have any information on any other Plants? There are Plants in my family, but there isn't a whole lot of info. A few names I have are Annie and John. One of the females married a Duddington.
23/10/2011Tim
Ah, so that clears up the infants school hospital myth. If my parents were still alive I think they would have known the story. They moved to Dogsthorpe from the Saxon Road area some time in the 50s, to Almond Road.
20/10/2011Adele
Having thought about what Tina said, I wonder whether this applies to St Georges School in Lawn Avenue not Dogsthorpe Infants? I always thought it slightly odd that St Georges and the Child Health Clinic (now demolished) shared a building. Originally the ambulance station (now the gym) also shared the site. It would make sense for all the health services to be planned together.
19/10/2011Adele
Feedback from Tina Gardner (no relation):
There wasn't actually a hospital here. The story behind the school building is that it was initially built in 1950 to be a cottage hospital but by the time it was finished it was decided to use it as a school (thats what I was told anyway!!)
19/10/2011Adele
Thanks Tim
I'll follow this up. I was also at the infant school from 1965 - 1967, I was Adele Holland at the time and have a brother Mark who was in the year below me.
14/10/2011Tim
In reply to the comment about a hospital on the site of the schools, you may be able to get more information from the infants school. I visited last week and was shown round my old school by a very helpful woman called Tina Gardner, the Social Responsibility Co-ordinator. When I was looking through my old classroom of 40+ years ago, she mentioned to me that the school was built on the site of a cottage hospital. She attended the school a couple of years after me and remembered a lot about it and its history. A very helpful person indeed.
27/09/2011Adele (webmaster)
I made some enquiries, see below:
"Sorry don't know anything about this. Thought there were just fields there before Dogsthorpe estate was built."
"As far as I know this was always farmland. No need for a hospital out that far from the town"
"I moved with my parents to live in Central Avenue in 1949 and I think the school had just opened. It was a brand new school and certainly that building had never been anything other than a school...
I never heard, either, that there had been a hospital on that site."
"my maternal grandfather knew the Dogsthorpe area well even though he was born at Longthorpe and lived most of his life at what was then Westwood - as in farm and airfield. He knew who owned what re. the land that the estate was built on and could even tell you where the clay was too near the surface to make a good garden! I never heard him talk of a hospital though that proves nothing at all."
25/09/2011Adele (webmaster)
It is not something I have heard of before. Looking at the 1901 map the site of the Junior School was nothing but fields. The 1950 map shows the school but very few of the houses in Dogsthorpe were built. Perhaps the building was used briefly as a hospital? Or perhaps there was some other building there between 1901 and 1950? I do have a couple of contacts who have lived in Dogsthorpe longer than me, I'll ask if they know anything.
The other source would be the archives at the Central Library.
21/09/2011Phillip Creasey
I am currelty learning about old Dogsthorpe as a Year 5 topic at Dogsthorpe Junior School. I have been told that some people think that the site of Dogsthorpe School on Central Avenue used to be a hostpital, I cant find any information to prove this, does any body have any ideas of where I may find this information and even if it is true? I would appreciate any help that can be offered. Thanks Phillip Yr 5GB
04/09/2011Diane Williams
Hello. Do you have any information about Elizabeth Williams born In Sleaford ? I am interested in her parents.....could she have had an older brother john or cousin ? It is possible John could be from Sleaford as I have found one of the witness to his marriage in Grimsby coulsd possibly be a Sleaford man. Best wishes diane.taylor350@ntlworld.com
17/08/2011JOANNE Bobridge
regarding Burbidge family i neglected to give my email.......joannebobridge@yahoo.com.au
thanks again... Joanne
17/08/2011Joanne Bobridge
hello again its been awhile since i have been to this site and as everytime i do i am not dissapointed .....re Burbidge family a Graham Taylor contacted you regarding the family ( coincedence my maiden name is Taylor)....is there any possible way you can give me his email address or perhaps if i give mine you can pass it on to him,,, i have previously looked at Paston and a Daniel Burbidge and as I recall a Mary Werrington......so much appreciate all you have done by posting an article I do believe you have helped me in discovering the origins of my families ancestors ...Thankyou so very much..... cheers from Down Under......
11/08/2011Gillian Wilson
Hi Glyn, I remember a Mr Tyson. One day our class was singing "London's Burning," and suddenly Mr Tyson came running into our classroom with a bucket of water. He really was a character. Good memory.
11/08/2011Gillian Wilson.
Hi Lynne, My Grangparents lived at #27 Fulbridge Road. They had both died by the late 1950's. My bro, sis and myself used to visit there every Saturday afternoon. When Rugby or football was being played at the park up the road, we used to play there.
11/08/2011Gillian Wilson
Hi Adele, Yes, it was a Post Office. We alway's bought sweets with our pocket money from there, which wasn't much compared to what children get today. lol
07/08/2011Adele webmaster
Hi Gillian
I remember going to the shop opposite the firestation in the late 60's, to buy sweets, I think it was also a Post Office.
05/08/2011Gillian Wilson
I lived on Birchtree Avenue, 50 steps from the Bluebell. I went to the infants school on Welland Rd. When I was young I used to spend time at the "spinny" on/around Welland Road. My father built the shop opposite the firestation, called Sharp's, it belongs to some-one else now. Did anyone know a Bill Wilson married to a Ruth De Silva? Bill died in 1959. He lived on Welland Rd; I was not allowed to know them, so if anyone has any info on them, please let me know. I want to know who they were and how they lived. Thankyou in advance, just in case.
21/05/2011Todd Ewart
John Sturton Is my GGG Grandfather. His daughter Elizabeth married my GG Grandfather Thomas Ewart who was the son of the Thomas Ewart who was a grocer and tea dealer on Bridge Street in Peterborough. Interesting fact, my father and grandfather’s names were Rowland William Ewart, a nod to my Elizabeth Sturton’s grandfather Rowland Williams. My Great Grandfather Thomas Ewart was a grocer and draper in Weldon. Anyone with connections or resources for more history please contact me, trewart@hotmail.com
19/05/2011Phil Brown
My great grandfather , Thomas Brown was the Licensee of the Blue Bell in 1911 along with his wife and daughter..I have been unable to find any further trace of them after that date. Neither deaths of Thomas and his wife nor any Marriage record for the daughter . I would appreciate any information regarding them .
phillip.brown630@ntlworld.com
04/05/2011Beverley Prouting nee Bobridge/Burbidge
My Great Grandfather John Burbidge came to Australia in 1855,
His first wife came from Cambridgeshire and his second wife also came from Cambridgeshire
John lived in Thorney when he married.
Would love to hear from anyone in Dogsthorpe or Paston.
bprouting@yahoo.com.au
30/04/2011LOVE FAMILY
What a good site
I am researching my husband's ancestors who lived in Dogsthorpe Road or near.
JOSEPH LOVE b 1813 Londonderry, moved from Ireland to Halstead, Essex. He was a saddler al his life continuing his career in Peterborough. He met and married his wife MARY ANN NORMAN she was some 20 years younger and they raise quite a few children.
They moved to 8 Westwood St, Peterborough, we also have 31 Wood St, Peterborough
29/04/2011Joanne
hello I was surprised to see your article, yes there were alot of John Burbidges,our John came to Australia leaving his daughter Mary Jane behind, he remarried to a Jane Hartley Brown and arrived here in australia 1855 on the Escort, I have tried to establish his father William Burbidge b c 1800, another lovely researcher has thought the family were from Paston?....is that far from Dogsthorpe and if so, why would it have John Burbidge being Christened in Dogsthorpe?....would love to find his parents.my email is bobridge@yahoo.com.au if any one can shed some light thankyou Joanne
10/03/2011colin minns
hi i attended central ave infants & juniors in the early 1970's . this has bought back some memories
24/01/2011Joanne
fantastic,i am an Australian researching my husbands family history which has led me to find your site ...his great x3 grandfather a John Burbidge was born here in 1829?,,i am still in the early stages of tracing his ancestry here .John Burbidge father William was supposedly also born here in 1800....hopefully i will discover more of his ancestry here ,John & william were both ag labourers ...
18/01/2011Susan Clarke (nee Newson)
I found this website by accident and have really enjoyed viewing it. Like Lynne, I was born in Myrtle Grove in 1957 and lived there until 1980. Our parents were really good friends. I was christened at the local church, which may have been the old Scouts hut as I think the new church, Christ the Carpenter, was still being built. I went to Garton End Road, Dogsthorpe Infants and Juniors Schools and then on to John Mansfield School. I have fond memories of Mr Nichols and the headmaster Mr Stephens, but not of Mr Kennedy (who I found very scary).
I now live in Cyprus, but have thoroughly enjoyed this trip down memory lane.
05/01/2011Adele (web master)
Hi Angus As you can see from http://www.dogsthorpe.com/timeline.aspx
the estate was started in 1945, the Methodist church in Birchtree Ave was completed in 1956, I'm pretty sure it was all built during this time.
23/12/2010Angus Gloster
I've really enjoyed your website, having spent most of my youth in Dogsthorpe. I attended both Dogsthorpe Infants & Juniors in the 70's. Lincoln Road Boys was my Senior school. I wondered when the likes of Central Ave, Chestnut Ave & Sycamore Ave were built (as is today), for these are the areas I knew well as a boy ? I spent alot of time at the Focus Youth Club (Chestnut Ave).
13/11/2010Adele (web master)
My mother also took me to the baby clinic, and I took my daughters from 1988. It has recently been demolished, although the other half of the building St Georges School is still there.
04/11/2010Lynne Purkiss (nee Mizon)
I was very interested to find this website and I remember lots of things about the area. I lived in Myrtle Grove from 1953 (when I was born). I went to Dogsthorpe School, Garton End Rd School and later John Mansfield School. I remember being taken for a walk with my younger brother Ian to see the pigs in Elmfield Road in the field which now belongs to the Kings School. I believe Carolyn Gardner (nee Barton)from 1 Elmfield Road was my school friend from Dogsthorpe School. My mother Sheila, now in her 80's, used to live at 1 Fulbridge Rd and still points out to me where her school was and various friends and neighbours used to live, also where she used to take me to baby clinic in Lawn Avenue.
03/11/2010Adele (web master)
Hi Gary
If you have any interesting information about your 3x Gt Grandfather, I would love to add it to the site. I have blacksmiths in my family too one of my 3x Gt Grandfathers was the blacksmith in Southery Norfolk. Another 3x Gt Grandfather was a shoeing smith in Kings Lynn and his father was a blacksmith in Cromer.
11/10/2010Gary Maddocks
Just found this site while researching my 3x great grandfather Thomas Chappell Blacksmith.Great to find this site and the info on "The Smity"
Thanks
28/09/2010Adele (web master)
Hi Tim
Sorry no, I hated the statue as a child, it was enough to give you nightmares.
Have you tried http://www.peterboroughinpictures.co.uk/
for a photo?
16/09/2010Tim
Great site. I've lived here all my life and have seen many changes, mostly for the worse! They're currently ripping the windows out of the local library... Do you have any photos of the local church (Christ the Carpenter) particularly of the statue of Christ that used to be above the main entrance?
01/08/2010Carl Drewery
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.
08/07/2010Shirley Webb
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
13/03/2010king
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
08/03/2010Carolyn Gardner (nee Barton)
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.
05/03/2010Jane Fincham (as was)
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.
03/01/2010Marcus Allen
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.
20/12/2009Rex Cooper
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.
 
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