Guest Book

This Guest Book was created before the advent of Facebook. I don't want to lose the years of comments but you can also add your comments or memories of Dogsthorpe on the Facebook Page. This has the benefit of telling me when there are posts rather than you having to wait until I remember to check this page.

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30/01/2018Alan Wright

Fig tree Cottages, Dogsthorpe.
Does anyone have any photos of these? I used to live at 120 Welland Road until we emigrated to Canada in 1980.

27/01/2018Henry Garner

I attended Lincoln Road Secondary Modern School between 1960 and 66
Does anyone out there remember me ?

07/01/2018Paul Rounsley

Hi Barry Hall, I believe the street/estate was built around 1952 as my Grand Parents Albert & Flo Holmes moved into No.104 Chestnut Avenue then when it was new.

29/12/2017Barry hall

Hi,I have just moved to chestnut avenue I was wondering if someone could tell me in what year these house were built.
Many thanks

11/11/2017Michael Jeffery Wadlow

Guy H. Ingram I would love to hear from you re the Parker family, William Kitchen Parker's wife was the sister of my Great Great Grandfather Foster Jeffery. I'm also wondering Henry George Wadlow had a connection with my Jeffery family.

10/10/2017Karen Carter (nee Masters)

I lived in Dogsthorpe (Eastern Avenue, opposite the turning into Acacia Avenue) until 1991. I attended Dogsthorpe Infants and Juniors until 1980 and then went to Deacons. Many fond memories!

10/09/2017Chris Wicks

I have just posted a message to Sam Barton in response to his message of 27/5/2015 which I have noticed whilst browsing as I attended Deacons Grammar School and lived at 22 Chestnut Avenue. Can the organiser of this website pass on my message to him?. Thanks Chris.

09/09/2017Chris Wicks

Hi Sam.
I have just spotted your note about your dad Colin Houghton. I don't have any photographs unfortunately, but I too went to Deacons Grammar at the same time as Colin. I remember him very well with great affection. We were friends for quite a while. I also remember visiting his home on several ocasions and I also remember his mum and dad very well. Some years after school I visited him I think near Maidenhead where he was working for a local newspaper. We spent the evening at a gambling club!! Please pass on my very warmest regards to him. If he wants to contact me my email address is chris@christopherwicksltd.com

10/08/2017Roger Bates

whilst researching family history, came across, (applicable to section on railways) the fact that on Census 1871 my relation William Truss, wife Ann and 3 children were recorded as being at the Midland Railway Gate house, his occupation being railway labourer

07/08/2017Alan Johnson

Can the person who runs this website please contact Alan Johnson, Archivist of Pboro Family History Society alanpdfhs@btinternet.com as we have been passed a lot of Vergette papers including your post re Robert's death in 1894. The person who collected all these papers died in 1984 but I notice the printout of your article was 14 Jan 2014. Look forward to hearing from you

24/07/2017Robert milligan

I used to hang about with dave jolly and Peter steels do you rember Andy Bell from urasure he lived on chestnut ave

22/07/2017Robert milligan

Me and my family lived on ash Rd ivy was.my
Mum we used to go to the old scarlets on Xmas day for my mums birthday some good memoryd

16/03/2017Paul Bellars

I have lived in Dogsthorpe nearly all my life. I'm 63 now. Lived in Western Avenue with parents from 1954 to 1980. Then I moved to Sherborne Road for some time and now back close to the Bluebell in Wesleyan Road. I went to Dogsthorpe infants and juniors with a year at Garton End Road school. Then went to Deacons school for 6 years. I know most of Dogsthorpe really well and have always enjoyed living here. It's a great place to be!

25/02/2017Michael Freemantle

I lived at 29 Chestnut Ave. from 1952-1970, with my parents and 6 siblings.
I went to Dogsthorpe schools. I remember Mr Woollard and Miss Freshwater, who rapped me on the knuckles for speaking out of turn.
I then went to Deacons, though missed a lot of school as my asthma was often severe.
Anyone remember me? I was a weedy looking biy with very fair hair.

25/02/2017Adele

thanks to Jane Turner for her lovely reminiscences, I am copying this to the Facebook page for others to see.

21/02/2017anna

hi there, i'm writing a novel and part of it is set in chestnut avenue in the mid 80s and before. would appreciate any little details about life on chestnut avenue for families with young children (up to four year olds) in that era. thanks!

20/02/2017Jane Turner (neé Broughton)

Your interesting website has kindled many memories for me and my sisters Elizabeth and Susan. My parents, Joyce and Russell Broughton, had 150 Welland Road built in the late 1940s and we lived there until 1962. We remember being allowed to cycle down to the railway crossing but no further and had good times playing in what we called ‘the back field’ behind the houses opposite us. Joseph Odam kept bullocks in the field behind us and one night they managed to get into our garden and did quite a lot of damage. Dad’s ‘compensation’ was a load of manure for the garden!
I went to Dogsthorpe School and spent a year in the Welland Road building with Mr Kennedy as my teacher. I remember the names John Meeks, Glyn Bartlett, and I believe I sat next to Paul Froggitt in Miss Brewin’s (?) class. My other teachers were Mrs Donague in the infants (whose husband had brought a boomerang back from Australia and when we had been particularly good she would take it from the cupboard and show it to us, which seemed like a real treat then), Mr Nichols and Mr Upex. Mr Upex could be very scary in class but I was friendly with his daughter Rachel and out of school he was very different.
As children we used to go to Sunday school at the old chapel until the new one was opened and we called for Mr (Clifford) Crunkhorn on the way – he was a lovely kind man. We loved the Chapel Anniversary as we usually had a new dress for it. When I was a teenager I often played the piano for hymns at the new Chapel and remember sometimes John Crunkhorn and I would play together for community hymn singing after the main service – him on the organ and me on the piano. Great fun.

04/02/2017Aruna Patel

Hi Karen thank you for your reply.
I am well thank you. I have been living in New Zealand for the last 28 years. Married with two daughters.
I still have a brother living on Elmfield Road. I visited a few years ago and walked past our old school with fond memories.
Best Wishes to you.
Aruna.

27/01/2017Karen Malton

Hello Aruna..sorry its a bit late..Unfortunately no i do not have the answer to Mandys whereabouts...I haven't seen anyone from dogsthorpe for many years..I do hope you are keeping well..Regards Karen.

15/01/2017Aruna Patel Cornish

HI, I'm writing in response to Karen Malton (26/08/2016)
Hi Karen I think I remember you from my time at Dogsthorpe Junior School. Pathfinders - was a Thursday night group as I recall. I have very fond memories of going across the road to the chip shop to get thupence worth of hot chips after the group.
You said you still live in Peterborough, do you by any chance know if Amanda Hawkins know as Mandy at school still lives in the area?

05/01/2017Barry David Crane

I am 67 years old and I have lived in the same house all on Chestnut Avenue all of my life, I have two brothers Peter and Alan who are both older than me,my parents were Mr and Mrs v.s. Crane both deceased.

02/01/2017Ann Marvill

I lived on Dogsthorpe Road as a child. My parents were Edward and Audrey Marvill. I taught at Dogsthorpe Infant school for one year from Sept. 1968.

02/01/2017Amers

Hi All and a happy new year!! We have just moved into the area and just wanted to say that we love it here in Dogsthorpe 🙂

02/01/2017Richard 'Bugs' Austin

In the early 1960's The band I was in ' The Dynatones ' used to rehearse during the week - nights at the Old Scarlett. many great memories of the hospitality show us as Teens by Mr. & Mrs. Cockman & their Customers. Letting us rehearse there allowed us to be able to develop our music to the extent that we achieved. We rubbed shoulders with many great names & gave us a benchmark for our respective futures in the Music Industry.

30/12/2016Barbara lunn was bines

My parents lived in western avenue all there life they had 8 daughters 1 son we all went to johnmansfield school and dogsthorpe infant school sadly parents no longer with us odams farm was at bottom of our garden many days we would have pigs in garden were hole in fence they had son graham who used to play in a band lovely memories if dogsthorpe

14/12/2016Marian Macey

Hi Adele
Thank you for this very interesting website. We are new comers and have found the history fascinating.

05/12/2016Graham Thompson

Hi Adele

Many thanks for a wonderful website. I only moved to Peterborough in 2001 from South Yorkshire, still not got used to the lack of hills.

I moved from Paston to Welland Close around mid 2008 with our garden backing onto the Welland Recreation Ground. I knew nothing of the history of the area but passing the Bluebell Inn daily and the adjacent thatched cottage always made me think this must have been a rural area at one time.

Now retired and, an occasional amateur photographer, I started to look for something local that I could use as a photography subject linked to a bit of local history. Finding your website has been a massive eye opener to me as I now know that behind my garden was a brick works (and a land fill, but I will gloss over that although I cannot help but wonder what is buried beneath my feet as I walk across it) and the path where I walk my dog is the site of an old railway that links to the brickworks history with Star Pit and Eye green.

So there is my project all stemmed from your wonderful pages of information. I will be looking at taking pictures of what is there now compared to the old pictures of the railway from Paston Crossing to the site of the station at Eye. This will include the Star Pit and Eye Green brickwork sites as well. Sadly, a lot of it is hidden under the Parkways but I am sure with a few gentle strolls with my camera, I can find something to show of the ghosts of the past.

Thank you so much for the inspiration to lean more and discover what is left of the local history.

Please note that there has been some changes at the EYE website which you link to which appears to have altered the homepage link to http://www.eyepeterborough.co.uk/ The link you have includes index.html at the end stopping it now from working.

Regards

Graham

09/10/2016Heather Walpole now Rycraft

I lived in western avenue from 1954 to 1969 and attended dogsthorpe infants and junior school. I've found all the information in your site very interesting .

20/09/2016Jacqueline wilson then jacqueline Northcott

Im looking for anyone who went to john Mansfield as I did from 1963 to 1965. I lived in craig street before moving to the states at 21 in 1971. I had a few friends in school I remember at that time called Jackie geary, and qwenda regan. Also had a friend called trish who had a son named zeke. Had a good friend who lived in stanground named Pam who moved to framce. any help would be great. thanks

30/08/2016Marie Santiago nee Gray

Adele i said my grandparents lived on Walpole st prior to moving to Birchtree but i remember now they lived on St Pauls Rd. Both my parents lived in Peterborough and after they married lived briefly with my Dad's mother at 14 Hampden Rd which i believe no longer exists. I was born in 1954 after we moved to Walton.Do you remember a place called Nine Bridges? I know we used to go swimming there.I have lived in the States since 1968 and am still homesick for Peterborough and remember what a great childhood i had. We could go all over Peterborough because i had so much family there.

30/08/2016Marie (Gray) Santiago

Adele i posted a comment on the PCGS website explaining my connection to Dogsthorpe

26/08/2016Karen Malton

My mum still lives in Almond road..im still in Peterborough..Many fond memories of the junior school and country dancing group and evening group called pathfinders...Then on to john Mansfield with headmidtress miss newborn then Sheila slater....

06/08/2016Adele

I found on Ancestry
Annemarie L Neumann
SPOUSE: Lutha Mussio
MARRIAGE: Sep 1967 - Fulham, London
OTHER: QMar-Jul-Aug-Sep 1967

Also a Jane de Neumann
SPOUSE: Douglas Marriott
MARRIAGE: Jun 1970 - Peterborough, Northamptonshire
OTHER: QFeb-Apr-May-Jun 1970

06/08/2016Adele

Hi Ritchie, Nothing that I know of, all the maps I've seen it is just open fields. Although Carr Dyke isn't far away see http://www.dogsthorpe.com/early.aspx.

04/08/2016Ritchie Firmston

It was very interesting site, but i would really like to know more about the area which is now Harebell Close, Dogsthorpe. The reason i ask is , i think its an area where there seems to be a lot of illnesses sickness and disabilities. Was there a burial site here or somethimg alike. It seems so strange that these things occur here.................Ritchie

02/08/2016Louise Stock (nee Waller)

Hi Adele! Thanks so much for updating me about Anne de Neumann (don't suppose you know her married name, by any chance?) - and for posting my enquiry on the PGCS Facebook page.
Really must congratulate you on running such a wonderfully interesting site, which I've only recently discovered, but now that I have I shall be checking in regularly!

02/08/2016Louise Stock (nee Waller)

Jennifer - thanks so much for posting so much information about Alexandra Road! I lived with my parents at No. 166 - next-door to Christine Stainsby, her brother Paul and their grandparents (her grandfather Jack was a Ranger at the Town Park after he retired). I was born in 1954 - and my great childhood friend was Maxine Lawson, who lived at No. 195 Alexandra Road! I remember 197 as a hairdressers shop - but I knew most of the people who lived in Alexandra Road between St. Paul's Road and Rock Road. The "girl next door" you mentioned (actually two doors from Christine Stainsby would be Jane de Neumann, who used to take me out in my pram with her friend Stephanie Clements who lived next door to the Stainsbys. Did you know the Bunn family at No. 156 - Mr Bunn worked for the Co-op Butchers in Burmer Road, and he and his wife had two daughters, Isobel and Suzanne. I could give you more names, but don't want to bore you! I find all this so interesting, and although I've been left Peterborough for over 30 years now (I live in York) I still get quite homesick for Peterborough!

21/07/2016Jennifer Good

Louis, I was born and raised on Alexander rd, number 197. My grandfather had a fish and chip ship along with a greengrocers. Sadly he passed in 1950 and we moved to Alma Rd. Mill field. I was always visiting the neighbors and stopped for a cute of tea as a 4 and 5 yr old. Everyone knew me and would take me home after our visit. I am curious as to what House number you lived in. I don't remember anyone's names except a girls around my age called Christine Stainsbury who lived with her grandparents a few door down and a girl next door called Jane.I even remember following the kids to Fulbridge rd school and had to be escorted home as I was too young to go and when I was old enough I just loved it, I attended PCGSG on Lincoln Rd and left in 1961. Sadly non of us from that era kept in tough with each other and so when I see something like this it perks my my interest. I am glad you was able to find an answer to your question.

21/07/2016Jennifer Good

My Maid of Honor in my wedding in 1962 was Norma Gollings who's parents lived in Dogsthorpe. I don't remember her street address but her parents were regulars at the Bluebell pub. Norma married an American and I believe she lives in Texas now.

21/07/2016Adele

Another update, Anne de Neumann married in 1967, and was replaced by Mrs Baxter at the school about the same time.

21/07/2016Adele

Hi Louise, I posted your enquiry on the PGCS facebook page. They referred me to the website https://peterborocountyschool.wordpress.com/.../1965-66.../

21/07/2016Adele

I was at County 72 - 79, I don't remember that name, but perhaps she was before my time?

18/07/2016Louise Stock (nee Waller)

What a fascinating site! I lived with my parents in Alexandra Road, New England and would love to know what happened to the de Neumann family who were our neighbours in the 1950s. I think Anne de Neumann became a Domestic Science teacher at the County Grammar School for Girls - her younger sister Jane used to take me out in my pram with her friend, another neighbour, Stephanie Clements. I attended Fulbridge Infants and Junior Schools from 1959-65, then John Mansfield from 1965-70. I'd love to have news of anyone who knew me.

16/07/2016Adele

Hi Judith, yes I was Adele Holland. Mum and Dad still live on Garton End Rd. I remember making butter, and knitting lessons, I managed half a mitten in a whole term. The toilets and Prince Charles had less of an impact!

14/07/2016Judith George

Hi Adele
Are you Adele Holland, I remember you lived on the bend as I walked to Garton End from Sallows Road.
I too left the Junior school in 1972.
The things that stand out in my mind from Garton End were the awful toilets, making our own butter and it being the time when Prince charles was made the Prince of Wales, odd the things that stick in your mind at that age.

23/05/2016Adele

Thanks Patrick, your post is fascinating. I shall add it to the wireless station page.

25/04/2016Patrick Stanbridge

My father, Arthur Stanbridge (1893-1938) was a GPO wireless operator who, although technically in the Royal Engineers signal service, spent much of WW1 posted to Dogsthorpe wireless station as a civilian. Sadly he died when I was young and all I know about his work there is what Sir Edward Appleton said about it together with two War Office letters (in 1916 and 1919) addressed to staff of the "special wireless stations" for their confidential work about which (1916) secrecy was required. Was Dogsthorpe part of an early-day Bletchley Park operation?
Not quite, I think!
Dad married my Mum in Peterborough in March 1916 when his address was 15 Seargeant St, Peterborough. After marriage, the couple stayed for a few months with a Mrs Twelvetree in Dogsthorpe before moving to Peterborough. At the end of the war Dad was at Seaham Harbour wireless station, co. Durham.

05/04/2016margaret faulkner (giddings)

This is for Dianne Vine.
I went to school with Jackie Phillips. She was Margaret's sister but sadly died about 3 years ago. Margaret is still alive and lives in Cyprus. Do you remember her cousins Pam and Patricia Phillips also from Eastern Ave. I was at school with Pam right through Dogsthorpe infants, juniors and John Mansfield. We still see each other regularly and have lunch at least once a month

05/04/2016margaret faulkner (was giddings)

Mum,dad and myself moved to western avenue when Dogsthorpe was first built. Before they were married my dad lived at Newborough and my mum at West Town. After the war the Dogsthorpe estate and Little Close at Eye were the first regeneration estates.They were offered houses in both areas but as they used to meet at the Bluebell when they were courting, which was half way from both their homes, they settled for Dogsthorpe. Mum died in 1999 but dad remained at Western ave and notched up 62 years. He is still alive and is 93 but moved into assisted living accommodation. Odam's farm was at the bottom of our garden

18/01/2016Gabrielle Mendham

Great granddaughter of Harriett Craig. Living Norwich Norfolk UK

26/12/2015Roger Ellison

Hello Alan

I believe you have a sister called Linda I think I went out with her for quite sometime she joined a pop group and sang |Marianne Faithfull songs. I often wonder what happened to her. I remember you mum and dad he was top man in the scouts and you had a dog. I have some photos you and your mum when she worked at Eastholm school.

Its great to know that she is well and living with you, please give her my regards.

An old Roy Orbison fan.

All the best

Roger

22/12/2015Alan Wright

My Mum and Dad Norman and Gladys Wright had 120, Welland Road built by a man named Bill Read. It is a semi detached and next door was purchased when new by Stan and Nellie Ward and their daughter Pat. That was in the early 1950's. I was born in 1946 and I remember moving there as a small child. Over the road was a thatched cottage that was divided into two dwellings.On the east side was a family named Tee and their son was the same age as me. On the west side was a lady that everyone knew as Fanny Barks. She was related by marriage to the Barks newspaper shop. She was a very fiery character with no electricity in the house. As children we thought she was a witch. She would through dirty water into the street and several times caught a unfortunate cyclist.
Stan Ward was a saddler and he had a workshop in the back garden. He later was appointed a saddler to the Queen and moved to Berkshire.
I would be interested in anything new you find out about the road.
We emigrated to Canada in 1980 and we live in Ontario. My Mum is still with us at 95 years old.
Thank you

18/12/2015Roger Ellison

I used to live in Elmfield Road number 98 until I got married in 1970. Went to Dogsthorpe infants and juniors and then on to Lincoln Road left there in Dec 1959 to work at Brotherhoods. Still live in Peterborough and have attended the Dogsthorpe coffee meeting at the Bull Hotel. I remember a girl called Glenis Reed who's parents ran the paper shop on the corner on Newark Ave would love to meet her again.

24/11/2015Stephen Robbins

I used to live at 271 Dogsthorpe Rd. I lived there from 1950 to 1970. I went to Queens Drive Infants, St Marks, and Lincoln Road School. My mother taught at Eastholme and was head of english, my dad worked at Baker Perkins. I left Peterborough to work in Lincolnshire and eventualy moved to west Wales.

24/11/2015Linda Harris (Nightingale)

I used to live in Western Ave from 1961 to 1964 when we moved to Cerris Road. Got married at Dogsthorpe Methodist church in 1971. Went to John Mansfield with some girls called Jackie Coleman and Gail Jones, wonder were they are now.

03/11/2015Michelle Horne

Dogsthorpe Wireless Station is shown on the 1926 1:25000 scale Ordnance Survey map. it lay within the grounds of the John Mansfield School

22/10/2015Evan

Hi All, wow this has brought back some very happy memories....... Lived in Western Avenue 1975 to 1982 opposite Chestnut Avenue. Went to Garton End and Dogsthorpe Juniors on Central Avenue. Each week with a trip over the road to the library. Fish and Chip shop on the corner with the best scraps lol. The little grocery store to buy 10p mixed 'dods' we called them back then. I recall all the pubs too Blue Bell, The Scarlet, Peter Pan (Welland Estate) and The Comet. At Dogsthorpe I had a Mrs Pritchard as my form teacher but do remember Mr Woolard with his glasses perched half way down his nose. Went to Eastholm from 1982 to 1985 but lost my mother to leukaemia and was moved to live with my father in Australia in March of 1985. I was actually trying to look up an old teacher from Eastholm (Mrs Scotchbrook) French teacher and mostly terrifying but she looked after me when my mother was diagnosed. Hoping she has had a happy and fulfilling life wherever she is.
Thanks everyone for your time and contributions it certainly was a different town back then and I loved those years.

14/10/2015Dianne Vine

I wrote on here ages ago asking about a family called Phillips who lived in Eastern Avenue, the Father was called Ronald William Phillips I think he had a Daughter called Margaret.

08/09/2015Tim

I think I misremembered my teachers. Definitely Miss Massey and Mrs Dixon, but I think Miss Lee was the first teacher I had in the main junior school building. I definitely had Mr Woollard, who used to wear his golf shoes to play football in (threatening to kick boys with them who got out of hand on the pitch) and I think Mrs Cook was Miss Bardell before she married.

So my teachers probably went in this order - Miss Massey, Mrs Harris, Mrs (or Miss) Dixon, Miss Lee (Mrs Nash), Mr Woollard, Miss Bardell (Mrs Cook).

21/08/2015Tim

In reply to Aruna's post from April, I remember Sarah Mann but mostly because I recall the total disbelief that went around the children when she told us that her family didn't have a television!

I went to Dogsthorpe Infants at roughly the same time as you, firstly in the mobile classrooms (I think my teacher might have been Miss Massey) then into the main building with Miss Lee (soon to be Mrs Nash) then my teacher was Mrs Harris. I moved on to Garton End Road and Miss Dixon's class in the juniors and I think Miss Dixon moved with us to the main building the following year. Then I had Mr Woollard and finally Mrs Cook, who I think was a Miss at first but I forget her name before she married.

15/07/2015Aruna Patel

Hello Daniel
Thank you your message I am afraid I don't remember you.
I choose not to be on face book but do have fond memories of my time at Dogsthorpe School.

15/07/2015Aruna Patel

Hello Jane
How wonderful that you are still in touch with Helen and others from our class. I am in Peterborough at the moment and would love to see you if you have time. My brother still lives on Elmfield Road and thinks that Helen works at the nursery at the church so I will try and contact her.
Love Aruna

22/06/2015Fred Manton

ref Miichael Wakefield you I've next to the cut play a lot of football in Maple gove.

19/06/2015Jayne

Message to Aruna: Yes I was good friends with Helen Adams and we were all in the same form room. I'm still in contact with Helen and quite a few other girls in our class. Lots of memories from our time at John Mansfield school. Best wishes to you x

16/06/2015Janet Mowinski nee Wintle

Matt Snow, I must know you as I lived at 28, Sallows Road.

16/06/2015Janet Mowinski nee Wintle

Sam, I remember a Colin Houghton. The name rings a bell. I used to live in Sallows road, Dogsthorpe. Sorry I dont have any photos but as i said i remember the name.My Dad taught at Lincoln Road Boys School.

27/05/2015Sam Barton

Hi. My Dad, Colin Houghton, went to Deacons Grammar school i think around 1959 ish and I am in the process of creating a memories album of pictures for his 70th birthday in July. Would anyone have a picture of the school before it got replaced by the academy?

11/05/2015Steve Crouch

I have been told that the Bluebell pub has been sold by Elgoods and may open as a restaurant in the near future.

04/05/2015Daniel

Hi Aruna,

I remember you and your family. There is a facebook group for Dogsthorpe school on facebook

29/04/2015Aruna Patel Cornish

I use to live on Elmfield Road and go to Dogsthorpe Infants and Primary - 1969 through to 1975.
I was friends with Sarah Mann her Father was the Minister at Dogsthorpe Methodist Church.
Does any one remember where the family moved to when they moved from Peterborough?
Does anybody else remember the Mann's, I think there were three daughters, Sarah being the youngest.

17/03/2015Anna

Great site. We've just bought a bungalow in Sallows Road, Dogsthorpe and hope to be there by the end of May. We're looking at the history of the area. Your site is a great help, we're looking forward to exploring :-)

11/03/2015Anne (Halliday) Wrench

I used to bring my pony, Whirlwind, to the Blacksmith in the early 60's, Having left P'boro' just a few years later, it is sad to see it has been replaced with a supermarket but I suppose that's what they call progress!

05/03/2015Andy H

I apologise if my request isn't strictly geographically accurate to this site; however, I spent 5 years of my very early childhood living in a prefab in Park Lane. I wonder if anyone knows where on the internet there might be any photos from that street at that time? I'm talking late 1960s. I have a few doorstep-type photos passed down through family, but none of the actual buildings or street. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

20/02/2015adele

Kevin
Try the Face Book group Peterborough Images for people and pictures.

19/02/2015Alan Wright

My parents had 120, Welland road built in the early 1950's and I lived there until I married. My wife and I bought 73 Elmfield Road and sold it in 1980 before we emigrated to Canada with our children and my Mum who is still with us at 95 years old.

22/01/2015Kevin

Hi

I used to live in Furze Ride, Bluebell Estate from 1965-75. Was wondering if I know anyone on here or if anyone has any pictures of around that time to share?

11/01/2015Adele (nee Holland)

Hi Steve, I remember you, we were in the same class.

23/12/2014Steve Collison

Moved to Elmfield Road from Crown Strret in 1967. Still in the family home. I vividly remember the old blacksmith shop where I got my bike fixed when the frame cracked. It was behind and to the right of the old Esso petrol station that was called the "Uneeda garage"
Dogsthorpe infants and juniors from 1967 to 1972 though I missed most of the first year juniors at Garton End due to being hospitalised with a wrist injury.
Great place to live

15/12/2014Angela Read

hello. I was looking for info on Charnwood Nursing Home on London Road, which is where I was born and I found a tantalising reference to it in the article on Woodbyth in which the writer says something about starting off looking into Charnwood NH and discovering the person who owned it (?) also lived at Woodbyth. I know the building has been derelict for years, but does anyone know anything about its history? Thanks. Angela Read

05/12/2014Lynn

Hi...Stumbled across you whilst looking for info on Paston Ridings Junior school..I lived in Heather Avenue on the Bluebell Estate and moved to Cerris Rd, Dogsthorpe in 1971 when I was 11, going to John Mansfield School 'for gals'with Nellie Newborn as our Head. Lived in Cerris until 1979 when I got married. Would love to find a couple of the old girls, especially Christine Rippon and Michele Cumpson if any one knows them. Sad to hear the school has gone now. Moved to London in 1982 and very rarely went back...on the Isle of Wight now so even further away..:) Was known as Sharon Smith back then and had a younger brother, Stuart, who attended Dogsthorpe Juniors.

02/12/2014brenda (woodhams) johnson

I was brought up in dogsthorpe and went to infants and juniors also garton end juniors for 1yr then went on to John Mansfield 1958 I started school,miss higgett was headmistress,I lived in willow ave just round the corner from John Mansfield,my cousins penny Smith and her 4 sisters lived in chestnut ave ,

28/11/2014Malcolm

I think I saw that someone ( Leanne ? ) said they were evacuated to 7 Welland Rd in 1946. This was next door to the blacksmith , and I also was evacuated to No 7 , Mrs Curtis and stayed till the end of the war.

16/11/2014eileen whitehead soltani

Hi , I lived in dogsthorpe from eary 1970's til 1980. I went to school in john mansfield from 1977 til we came to live in Ireland. I'm looking for dawn adams, julie goodyear, fiona plant..anyone know any of these girls from my class please contact me..many thanks

12/11/2014Peter

I came across your website when looking for information about Eye brickworks. I was born in Walton and lived there until 1975. My father studied and taught at Garton End Technical College which he nicknamed 'Dogsthorpe University'. Eventually he gained a BSC degree via external exam from The University of London. It is ironic that Peterborough University Centre is now nearby at the Peterborough Regional College and what was the Technical College.

My dad was amused that when I became a teacher in 1968 and taught at the Garton End Road annexe of Dogsthorpe Junior School which he called his 'alama mater'.

I started at Dogsthorpe Junior School when Mr Stephenson was in his final year as head teacher and remained there under the headship of Mr Leisheman. Mr Nichols and Mr Woolard have been mentioned by other contributors and they were established members of staff in my time. Indeed, the age of the staff was quite high and, at 21, I was the youngest by about 20 years.

Thanks for your interesting site.

02/11/2014steve Thompson

I am trying to find out where the sign for the old scarlet pub went to when it was sold. A pub in Peterborough it was my home turf so if anyone has it in their basement?

31/10/2014Adele

Hi Claire
I consulted George Meadows as I didn't know myself, he says "That's a bit before my time! There was a cluster of shops at the junction of Mountsteven Avenue, Rutterfords, Rycraft and the Co-op I think. A little further up towards Werrington I remember there was someone called Letts, but that was in the 60's.

That's the best I can do."
A directory from the period might help.

17/10/2014Claire

Hi Im trying to find out if there was a greengrocers on falbridge road between the 1940s and 1950s if so how would i find out who the proprietors were

28/09/2014June Margaret Dewey

I am trying to trace my maternal grandm other's family. She was born Florence Woolley in, I believe, 1870.

28/09/2014John William & Flora Lawes

We lived at 1 Crocus Grove until my death 7th March 1961, if you know what became of my Flora, I'd love to know.
Contact me through:-
registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk

10/09/2014Leanne

Does anyone know where I can trace a photo of 12 dogsthorpe road as a childrens home

03/09/2014Gillian Greaves

Hi just found your website after looking for info on the Old Scarlet pub. My parents Cyril and Flo Dix managed this pub in the 70/80s and I have quite a few newspaper cuttings and photos from then also quite a few championship cups. I remember Budgie doing the discos and recall it as a real fun pub - darts, pool and dominoes - a great community pub even if it did have the odd punch up lol. My Mum and Dad loved there time living in Peterborough and especially their stay at the Scarlet.

23/08/2014Adele

Hi Michael It's great to hear the site is being viewed from all over the world.

22/08/2014Michael Wakefield

I grew up on Maple Grove in the 50's and 60's and really enjoyed looking at the old photos of how Dogsthorpe used to look before the Estate. I moved to Canada in 68 and my Children are scattered World Wide, I will encourage them to visit your site to see a little Background on where they descended from. I am currently living in Thailand for the next 2 years and will visit tour site regularly to feel some nostalgia.

09/08/2014Simon warren

Just come across your site, very interesting lived in Francis gardens not quite in dogsthorpe but spent many of my childhood years in and around dogsthorpe / bluebell
My farther was the co-op insurance in and around dogsthorpe between 1962- 1990

04/08/2014Lisa lista

Hi I was at john Mansfield from 1979-1983
I haven't seen any one since I left my friends were. Donna manton, Julie law , Juliet , Andrea macalease, Sarah fitzjohn, Diane Kent , Nicola leverton , Mandy hart, Clare holland, Melissa , davinder kaur, Debbie Ellis , I miss my friends wish we all kept in touch. :(
Hope all you girls are ok!
Lisa xxx

27/07/2014Maggie O'Connor

Went to Eastholm secondary school. Was in local majorette s in the 1980s. Lived in Park Lane

26/07/2014Aruna

Hello Jayne
Yes I did go to John Mansfield Girls School from 1975-1980.
I am pleased you remember me!I remember you too I think you were good friends with Helen Adams and also I think we might have been in the same form class.

18/07/2014Gillian (Jill)

Hi Julie. I lived at #10 Birchtree Ave. I left Peterborouh in 1962. The shop you are talking about was called Sharpes. My Father built it. I was there about 3 years ago and was sad to see it's not the same. Small world isn't it? You probably know my family though as they stayed there.

08/07/2014Julie Callaby (nee Redhead)

What an interesting site. I lived at 1 Birchtree Avenue from 1962 til 1970. My house backed on to the corner of Odams grounds and we used to climb through the fence & play in there! I went to Dogsthorpe infants and juniors (left when I was 10 as we moved) and also went to Garton End Road. I remember the little shop opposite the fire station as used to go and get sweets there. So many memories

08/07/2014Mark Swingler

Re the 1950s map. ~~It must be very early 1950s. I started at Dogsthorpe school in 1953 and I'm certain that the estate was complete, at least those parts on my route from Newark Avenue via Elmfield Rd.

01/07/2014sally stewart

I was class of 1982, started half way through the 2nd yr or yr 8 as they call it today.
was in Miss Abbots class x 2z.

02/06/2014Sharon Penzer nee Watson

I went to John Mansfield school from 1981 -1983 so I was there when the school mixed with the boys school when I was in the 3rd year. It was very strange as us girls were so used to it being quiet. Lol, I moved house and ended up at Stanground which wasn't a patch on John Mansfield. I didn't know it had closed :-(

01/06/2014Judy

I have fond memories of spending my first year of Dogsthorpe Junior at the Garton End site - apart from the hot dinners which for some reason i disliked. I must have started at Garton End in 1968 as I left the Junior School in 1972 and moved up to John Mansfield and our head was the very strict Miss Newborn but they were happy years.

28/05/2014Mary Baxter

I was brought up on Dogsthorpe Estate and attended the Infants and Junior Schools on Central Avenue. We lived on Central Avenue, opposite Christ Church so we did not have far to go. My three brothers and a sister also attended the schools. I remember Miss Palamountain, Mr Tyson and Mr Nichols. I also recall a Miss Hetherington from Infants School and from Junior School I also remember Miss Freshwater (Games PE), Mr Kennedy and a Miss Nicol (I think). We moved to Central Avenue when the houses were built in January 1954 and I left in April 1972. If I remember anything else I will return to the site!

27/05/2014Lorna (nee Daniels ) Daniels

I was born in the corner house of Almond Road, then when i was two we moved to Eastern Avenue, i attended the Dogsthorpe Infants Juniors & Garton End 1965-1971 then on to John Mansfield. Left 1976.

Mr Woollard was also my Dad's teacher when he was at school at Standground ... great site glad i found you, Lorna http://tinyurl.com/mediumlornadaniels

21/05/2014Adele

My mum used to take me to see the pigs when we lived in Welland Rd 1962/3. In 1984 I moved into 6 Dovecote Close and had the same pigs to thank for our bumper crop of courgettes. My husband still hates the sight of them.

14/05/2014Penny Chaplin

I lived in Dogsthorpe from 1952 to 1972 so if I can help anyone, please ask. I lived in 3 of Joe Odams tied cottages on Welland Road........email pennyvine@btinternet.com

14/05/2014Penny Chaplin

For Margaret Faulkener............do you remember Rita Clingan and Jenny Peck. We lived in one of Joe Odam's houses on Welland Road. Dad used to keep the pigs........

06/05/2014Jayne

Hi Aruna, Did you go to John Mansfield school, years 1975-1980? I remember an Aruna Patel from that time.

27/04/2014Matt Snow

Hi. This site is really interesting. My great grandfather was William Bone, who you have a sub-heading on under Garton End. I grew up at 15 Sallows Road, that my parents had bought off my nan (Edith) when she moved back to 117 Garton End Road, and then they built a house at number 17, before moving from the area about 6 years ago.

18/04/2014Adele

Can I recommend Peterbrough Images Facebook Group for anyone who likes discussing old Peterborough. https://www.facebook.com/groups/126781404008162/

18/04/2014Adele

The BLuebell and pond photo on the home page must have been taken pre 1920 when the cottages were demolished and the Bluebell extended.

07/04/2014phillip brown

When was the photo of the Bluebell and the pond taken .. Any idea.

10/03/2014Aruna

Hello Adele
I think you were possibly a year or two ahead of me.

I would be really keen to hear from Amanda Hawkins who was in my class in 1973/74 - Dogsthorpe Primary.

10/03/2014Dianne Vine

Still interested to find out about a family called Phillips who lived in Eastern Avenue in the late 50's/early 60's and had a daughter called Margaret Ann.
I think they may have live at number 25 Eastern avenue.

04/03/2014Adele

Hi Aruna
No my maiden name was Holland. I do remember Mr Woollard but never had him as a teacher.

03/03/2014Aruna

Yes possibly, I started off in Dorothy Harris's class and think I was there for a couple of years. She taught me how to speak English.
I do remember a Mr Woolard - harsh and stern.
Was your surname Glover?

01/03/2014Adele

Hi Aruna
I also went to the Methodist Church and remember the Manns being there. I think they had been in Kenya. I was in Mr Nicholls' class in 1971/2, were we in the same year?

17/02/2014Aruna Patel Cornish

What a discovery, I have been searching for information regarding the Mann family who were resident at Dogsthorpe Methodist Church in the early 1970's.I went to Sunday School there and was friends with Sarah Mann.I also attended Dogsthorpe Infants, then Garten End School and then back to Dogsthorpe for Primary. Mr Nicholls was my teacher also and I remember with fondness watering the geraniums in his classroom.

11/02/2014Ruth Stuart-Thompson

Hi, I believe that my husband's Late father grew up in Dogthrope in the 1920's / 1930's and was the youngest son of Walter Stuart-Thompson. They bred champion Elkhounds (the Dogthorpe Elkhounds) of Woodbyth, Dogsthorpe. I would be very interested if anyone knows if their home is still standing and has any further information. With thanks, Ruth (thebooklady14@gmail.com)

21/01/2014Adele

Hi Jim
The site is about the local history of Dogsthorpe, now a suburb of Peterborough UK. Lynne wrote in the Guest Book on 4/11/2010 (scroll down to see her entry), she was born in 1953 so college in the late 60's would be right. I'm afraid she didn't leave any contact details.

15/01/2014Jim Barr

There is a reference to a Lynne Purkiss (nee Mizon) in this website, this is not a common name and I was at college in the late 60's with a Lynne Mizon, any chance of getting in touch, I have never visited this site before and no idea of its purpose

Best wishes,

Jim

28/12/2013Glyn Bartlett

Re:Mills.
At one time Dogsthorpe had it's own windmill.Known locally as Honey Hill (AKA Bluebell Hill & The Nab) the site survived as a mound & pond 'till 1960 when it was cleared for housing development.(I spent many hours there in 1952 mostly when truanting from Welland Road School!) Historians were divided between moated wooden castle and a post mill site. The excavation prior to destruction revealed a few very old coins, some fragments of pottery and broken pieces of millstone. Probably constructed in the 13th. century. Located at the Crocus Grove end of the land now enclosed on two sides by Crocus Grove and Heather Avenue.(See Guestbook entry 01/01/12: Graeme Abbott for a mention of the place.)
Numerous internet refs. For example www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info -- "the listings" -- "Soke of Peterborough" -- "Dogsthorpe Honey Hill".

27/12/2013Adele

Hi Richard and Angela
I think you both would have been in the same school year as me.

23/12/2013Richard Faull

I was born in Bluebell Avenue in august 1961 and lived in Bluebell untill I was 18 years old. In 1961 it was a cobbled street, and the milk was delivered by horrels dairies, and horse and cart. I went to garton end school, with teacher Miss palamountain, and went to dogsthorpe infants too, then on to paston ridings, with teacher Mr Little, then finally, walton secondary school.

21/12/2013angela trower

i lived in dogsthorpe untill i got married i lived on eastern ave and went to the infants schhol then the school at garton end then bk to dogsthorpe then to jms untill 1977

15/12/2013Shirley Barsby nee Harvey

I moved into a house on Central Avenue as a baby with my parents and brother Peter. I have tried for years to find Lucy nee Wilson who grew up next door to me.

11/12/2013Jane

I moved into Chestnut Avenue when I was 6 weeks old - that was in January, 1950. My older sister had never seen a proper bath with taps before! We had a fabulous time growing up and I still see old friends - I always say you can spot a Dogsthorpe girl a mile off!!

11/12/2013Adele

There is no need to register, although liking us on Facebook is good.
The login is for my editing purposes.

10/12/2013Jane

Adele, love this site, but how do I register, please?

16/11/2013Adele

Jayne Neale Horton posted on Facebook: I love the Dogsthorpe website!

Thanks Jayne :-)

13/09/2013Adele

Thank you for this Information. I am always eager to get any snippets about the occupants of Lawn House (I live in Lawn Avenue which is now on the site). I shall see what else I can find out about Mrs Bews.

11/09/2013Kathy Bews

Hello, I was looking through some family papers and came across a wedding announcement.
It reads; Bews-Aldridge. The wedding took place very quietly in Kingston(Ontario,Canada)on April 5th 1928 by Rev. John W. Stephen, of Beatrice A. Aldridge, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. A. Aldridge
University Ave., to Mr. James W. Bews, only son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bews, Colborne St.
The bride is a granddaughter of the late William Robson, Bank manager, Abbyleix, Ireland, and Austin C. Aldridge late S.S.P
Mrs. Bews is a full cousin of James Clapperton M.D.F.R.C.S.,and Mrs. Clapperton, Dogsthorpe House, England. Just sending if anyone is interested. Thank You.

15/07/2013Dianne Vine

Does anyone know of a family called Phillips from Eastern Avenue in the late 50's.
I think they may have had a Daughter called Margaret.

06/07/2013Adele

Thanks for the info Ed, you are obviously a bit younger than me, I left Dogsthorpe in 1972, and Deacons didn't have girls then!

Sorry Clint I've never come across Budgie.

05/07/2013Clint Parkinson

Does anyone know of a Graham Parkinson AKA budgie who used to work as a DJ and drank in the Scarlett among other pubs?

03/07/2013Ed Jones

I have just read the page about Dogsthorpe Schools in the 1960s, I went to Dogsthorpe Infants and Juniors from 1978 onwards, you mention Mr. Leishman, I think he was Headmaster at Deacons School during the 1980s. Also, Mr Evans, who I think lived on Birchtree Avenue was the Headmaster of the Infants and Junior Schools during the 70's and 80's. Fascinating site, thanks.

19/06/2013graham draper

hes my brother

18/06/2013Adele

Thanks Graham, are you any relation to my neighbour Andy?

05/06/2013graham draper

odams farm was off welland road . i think it used to back onto figtree walk and there was a farm futher along welland road near the brigde. i was brought up in dogsthorpe

05/04/2013Jules

What a great site. Fascinating to learn about mediaeval Carton. Will definitely be dipping back in to learn more. Thanks!

28/03/2013Adele

Dostrop Hall
Opinion is divided as to whether the Grange or the Manor was the home of the Fitzwilliams, I should imagine the Hall refers to one of these (see pages on Fitzwilliams, Dogsthorpe Grange and The Manor in menu).

25/03/2013Adele

Searches for Dostrop Hall take me to the Fitzwilliams, particularly: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=154-fmcharter_2&cid=-1#-1

"Seven others are leases, in 1578 and 1588, by William Fitzwilliam of Dostrop, esq."
But the Fitzwilliams had sold Dogthorpe Manor before 1680. It would be great to fill in this part of the history if you have more information please email me adele@dogsthorpe.com .

13/03/2013Teri

I'm looking for a Child(e)family that lived in Dogsthorpe at Dogsthorpe (Dostrop) Hall in the late seventeenth century. Letitia Child was probably their daughter and was the mistress of Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset. A Thomas, George or Sir Richard Child(e) may be related. If you know anything about Dogsthorpe Hall and who owned it around 1680 or about any Child(e)s who lived in the area around that time, I'd appreciate it.

24/02/2013Adele

Hello B
I have looked up Henry Curtis in Ancestry.co.uk and found his marriage to Charlotte. I then went on to look for them in the Census and found the only couple with those names living in Southorpe, a hamlet near Barnack where he was born. I wonder if perhaps Dogsthorpe is a mistake and it actually should say Southorpe?

24/02/2013Adele

Hi Tim
I have searched the Peterborough Today website with no luck, I have sent them an email about the photo, I'll post again if I get a reply.

22/02/2013Tim

Reading below, I see I missed a photo of the statue on the church, which was printed in the ET last year. I don't suppose anyone scanned this and could post a link?

For anyone interested in "Fred" the statue, I contacted the vicarage a few months ago to see what became of it, and was told that someone has it situated in their garden, and it was not destroyed. Someone with a large garden containing a few sculptures. Unfortunately I have not been able to learn any more.

I do miss Zombie Jesus...

19/02/2013Mrs. Stocks

Henry CURTIS otp, [Dogsthorpe], bachelor, full age, labourer, father William, labourer
Charlotte CULLEP otp, [Dogsthorpe], spinster, full age, father John, labourer 1838 12-Oct Peterborough St. John the Baptist
I was pleased to find your site because I had no idea where Dogsthorpe was (is) living as I do in E. Lancs. although I realised it must be not far from Peterborough. Sadly I have no address for such humble 'ag.labs.' Regards, B

22/11/2012Adele

Hi Paul
I have found out quite a bit about your Gt Grandfather. Have a look at jinks.aspx

09/11/2012Paul Jinks

My great grandfather (Edward Jinks) lived here with his wife Sarah (nee Harvey) (1911 cenus) with his family. Exact address not known.

07/11/2012Steve Williams

I'm always looking for more information on the Bluebell and your site was a nice find. It has been suggested that the stone the pub was built of looks to be too good a quality for a mere farm house. Is it a coincidence that the Lady Chapel attached to the cathedral was demolished in 1660 and the stone sold off and the pub largely rebuilt at about the same time! Also the pannelling inside the 'snug' predates the 1660's building. Did it come from the cottages next door that were demolished in the 1920's to extend the pub? Steve Williams steve@pubhistorysociety.co.uk

23/09/2012Malcolm

I stumbled across your site while on holiday here in France. I was evacuated in 1940 to 7 Welland Rd,which was next door to the blacksmiths and lived with a Mrs Curtis. Her parents lived on the other side of the smithy in a bungalow which can be seen in the photo next to the large tree.I went to the school next door and returned to London after the war. I was a member of Aunt Rhonas Chums and used to sing in an airforce costume to soldiers in hospital.I remember lots about Dogsthorpe but names are hard to remember after 70 years.Best wishes , Mac.

30/08/2012Daniel Jenkins (Webb)

hi I dont live in Dogsthorpe, just wanted to say to Shirley Webb is on here I am trying to contact her please get in touch even if it just on here thanks

27/08/2012Adele

Thanks Margaret.
My mother used to bring me down to see the pigs when we lived in Welland Road (early 60's), and then in the 80's I moved into Dovecote Close which was built on the site of the farm. I didn't know it belonged to Odams though.

23/08/2012margaret faulkner

Odams farm was in Welland Road opposite the garage and old school.There was a large house which Joseph Odam lived in and several tied cottages. I believe the farmhouse is now a childrens nursery. The farm actually backed on to our house in Western Avenue and when we first moved there is was a regular occurance to find a pig had found it's way into the garden.

22/08/2012Adele

Thanks Margaret for some great memories. Where was Odam's farm? Was it the place at Eye, or did they have somewhere in Dogsthorpe?

17/08/2012margaret faulkner

hello my single name was margaret giddings and I moved to Western Avenue in 1948 when the estate was in it's infancy. I remember Dogsthorpe school being built as well as Central Avenue shops. It was never a hospital.I was also in Miss Rates class as well as Mrs Donagues.Because the school was not big enough I attended Welland Road school for a term. The building was the old Dogsthorpe school and had a big fire in the centre of the classrooms. In the winter the milk was delivered and stood near the fire to defrost. The toilets were across the yard and when it snowed we had snowball fights with the teachers, Miss Mason and Mr Greene. I also played in the Spinney and watched the blacksmith John shoe the horses where the Tesco garage is now.I was friends with the Wanns who lived in a tied cottage at Odams farm and spent many happy days there in the summer holidays. I was always in the sports which was held at Fulbridge Road School.Mr Nicholls was the teacher in charge and I have still got numerous certificates that I won.From there I attended John Mansfield until 1960 but unfortunately this has now been demolished. My father lived in Western Avenue until 2010 clocking up an amazing 62 years tenancy.He is still alive but lives in an assisted living accommodation.

23/05/2012Marian proudley

Hi Adele thanks for the link to Peterborough in pictures its a great site brought back many memeries

04/05/2012Marian proudley

I was born & raised in Peterborough when my mother died i lived for a while in south parade before moving to 12 Dogsthorpe road wich was a children home i moved there in 1961 till 1968 i went to John Mansfield girls school

02/05/2012Geoff Porter

I started Dogsthorpe Infants School in 1963, moved on to Garton End Road, and then the Junior School until I moved on to Eastholm School. I still have family on Eastern Avenue. I was a member of Christ Church choir for 7 years, so I was party to the locals forever complaing about the hideous statue outside the church. This went on for years, but when the statue was vandalised and destroyed, the anger shown was unprecedented. Just goes to show how fickle some people are

20/04/2012Dr Avril Lumley Prior

It has been a long time since I have visited this web-site and I thought that it had expanded and improved tremendously. Thanks to all yur hard work, Adele. Well done!

17/04/2012Helen Scarisbrick (nee Cupit)

We moved into Chestnut Avenue in 1952 when the houses were new. I would have been three at the time and remember fields the other side of Chestnut Avenue and the prefab building that preceeded the church. I remember the new church being built and went to the consecration service. I attended Dogsthorpe infants where Miss Fox taught me in reception. Later moved to the juniors (Miss Heatherington)where we had to spend one year out at Welland Road school because of overcrowding. Eventually I moved to Newark Hill School when it opened.I can remember all the famlies who lived round the Chestnut Avenue circle.

11/03/2012Howard Gascoyne

Ah, Southery! Enjoying the site very much.

06/03/2012Adele

Way back on 16th Sept 2010 Tim asked about the statue at Christ Church. There was a picture of it in the Evening Telegraph yesterday (12th March 2012). www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk

06/03/2012Adele

For those of you still living locally:
14th March 2012 The Story of Dogsthorpe and Lost Villages, see home page for link.

20/02/2012Gillian Olsen

Well at least there will be somewhere for the kids to go, rather than run the streets. Thankyou for letting me know Adele.

19/02/2012Adele

Sorry I haven't checked ths guestbook lately, there has been alot of activity.

To answer Gillian back in October, I'm afraid they have demolished most of John Mansfield school, they have kept part of it as a community cantre, the rest of the land is going to be housing I think.

09/02/2012Gillian Olsen

Bronwyn, What part of the US are you living? I am in Oregon. Left John Mansfield in 1961.

09/02/2012joanne aldred

i grew up in sycamore ave my parents still live there .i went to dogsthorpe infant and junior school and also was one of the last pupils at garton end road school ,then went to john mansfield ,see a lots of changes with families and local shop keepers ect ,still have lots of my family on dogsthorpe and many families still have relatives living on dogstorpe .i found this site verry interesting .thank you

21/01/2012clive bell

dogsthorpe fire brigde

02/01/2012Graeme 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!

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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