The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
More pictures from yesteryear in Peterborough
Two weeks ago I chose a picture of the Duchess of Gloucester in one of her visits to the area, and challenged you to identify the date and location.
Our first response is from Linda Nichols, who said: “This picture is the christening of Lady Rose Windsor at Barnwell Church in 1980.
“We went along because my son was born at around the same time ( which for me at the time, seemed to be significant!) and as it was not far for us to travel to seemed a good opportunity to see Royalty close up.
“Some of the party arrived in a flower- bedecked open- top car, otherwise the journey was short from the ancestral home in the village to the church and was easily walked.
“Looking back it seemed a very informal, relaxed and friendly event in a pretty English village church on a lovely bright Sunday ( I am sure it was a Sunday!).
“I believe two of the godparents were Lady Sarah Armstrong- Jones and Prince Edward ( who are in your pic- ture). Another response came from Vanda Barker who said: “It was possibly taken at Barnwell Manor on the occasion of the Baptism of one of her daughters, noting the elaborate Christening gown.
“The young man standing behind the Duchess is Prince Edward whowas born in 1964 and possibly one of the baby’s Godparents?
“The Gloucesters’ first daughter, Lady Davina Windsor, was born in1977, and their second, Lady Rose, in 1980.”
Reader Raymond Preston has contacted us with four pictures of his own
The first pictures show two local football teams. The team on the top right is Phorpres Youth Clubin 1945, taken in the aftermath of the Peterborough Junior Cup Final.
They came out on the wrong end of what sounds like an exciting match, losing 6- 3to Walton Juniors.
The names are listed as follows: Back row, left to right - A E Hunter ( Sec), K Ludman, D Roberts, G Kingston, C Parrott, B Hill, and L Woods.
In the front row is D Wright, A Bains, D Blewitt, R Henson, and B Ringham.
The picture below it shows the North Ward Youth Club, in the same year.
The names are listed as Nichols, Lubbock, Unknown, Plant, Perry, Porter.
On the front row is Corbett, Boughton, Tasker, Newson and Ding.
I wonder if any of these gentlemen, or their families, have any recollections of their playing days which they would like to share?
Mr Preston’s other pictures show two old views of Peterborough - can anyone help us identify them?
Last week I published a picture of Maggie and Rex Perkins.
Doreen Perkins, from Yaxley, recognised the manin the dark suit and glasses as the late city councillor and former mayor Jack Farrell.
And Maggie also contacted me herself, with a particularly nice email: “I have just spent two hours of nostalgia looking through my huge scrapbooks of Evening Telegraph photographs and write ups of my and Rex’s Mayoral Year in 1987/ 88.
“This has been all down to your photograph.
“I hoped to find that photograph with a write up in my scrap book, to give me a clue to the identity of the man with the moustache, but haven’t got it.
“You were and still are my very favourite photographer.”