A Day Away from chaos

Yesterday Mad Moose and I took a break from the building chaos at home to spend a day in Peterborough. Being mindful of saving money, quite a laugh if you think of the amount we're spending on renovations, we waited for the morning rush hour had passed and travelled in to the City on the bus with our free bus pass.

Our first job was to go into John Lewis to look at the choices I had made for the next Reno job. Carpets and curtains for the lounge plus a few other bits and bobs. Decisions made, we took a break in John Lewis's 'The Place To Eat' before heading for St Johns Parish Church in Cathedral Square.

I had never been in this church before despite it being slap bang in the center of the city. I'd often wondered why a church had been build so close to the Cathedral until I realise the Cathedral had been an Abbey and the church was there before the Cathedral was built. Inside it's really nice with big stain glass windows all around the building. We were there for one of the Lunch time lectures. This one was by the Landscape manager of the Nene Valley Park and was looking forward to how they expect the park to develop over the next 10 years. As we live within a stones throw of the Park this was of interest to us.

After the Lecture was over we headed for the Town Hall for the annual lecture given by the Peterborough Local History Group, hosted by the present Mayor with the profits from the talks going to the Mayors Charities.

This years talks were by Neil Mitchell who gave an interesting look into his personal photo and postcard archive. He had put together a slide show and talk on the buildings many now long gone of the city. The second talk after a tea and biscuit break was by Steven Perry and was an entertaining look at the history of Cowgate.

We have attended this event for several years now and have always enjoyed them. When a city is constantly changing it is sometimes hard to recall how things use to look. I remember coming to the city as a child with my Grand parents and having afternoon tea at Adcocks Tea rooms. Dave remembers the Dance Halls and Pubs that he came to as a teenager. My teen years were spent in Kings Lynn so I don't have quite so many memories if Peterborough.