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If you were drawing up a list of the 10 places you would want people to visit in Peterborough, what would they be?
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Peterborough’s young creatives aren’t waiting for the city to catch up – they’re building the stage themselves.
Culture Talks is the podcast changing how young people connect with arts, identity & each other. We spoke to the team in our latest issue.
Read the full article here: bit.ly/3QnNb5T
#CultureTalks #Peterborough #YoungCreatives #ArtsAndCulture #PeterboroughArts #TheMomentMagazine @PeterboroughCC @PboroPositive @PboroMuseum @pborocathedral @PeterboroughCS
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Jun 7
The wonderful world of Walter Cornelius (born Voldemārs Korņejevs), a Latvian and truly a Peterborough legend … just look at Blue Peter’s John Noakes hitting him over the head with a sledgehammer- yes, really!!!
youtu.be/bcTDEKutMnI?si=ueXY…
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Jun 3
Many thanks to Matt and the staff at Peterborough Museum for displaying the walking maps and other materials so brilliantly – they are extremely welcoming, well organised and well liked! Brilliant! @PboroMuseum
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Jun 3
…. and a lunchtime service going on featuring the marvellous organ! I see and hear different things every time I visit @pborocathedral
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Jun 3
Peterborough Cathedral was really buzzing earlier today – school parties, people looking at the Titanosaurus, groups looking at the Longest Yarn exhibition and a group of us discussing Heritage opportunities in the city – and this evening a bondholders dinner @pborocathedral
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May 29
Peterborough … a challenge. One of the cities that were twinned with - Bourges in France - is to be European Capital of Culture 2028. How can we tap into this and share in the celebrations? I’ve written to Matt Gladstone and @docshab Watch this space!
culture.ec.europa.eu/whats-n…
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May 28
Delighted to read that Marjorie Pollard is included in the new book about women’s cricket ‘The Women in Whites’. In Peterborough we have a blue plaque to Marjorie who was once described to me as “formidable”
@RafNicholson @guardian_sport
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"I became a detective in women’s cricket and found treasure in an old Lancashire cowshed."
The Women in Whites is out on 1 June! waterstones.com/book/the-wom…
theguardian.com/sport/2026/m…
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Many thanks to Peterborough Cathedral, especially Linda Dowell, who always efficiently and meticulously put out the Civic Society’s leaflets and make sure that they are regularly available and topped up 👏 @pborocathedral
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May 26
Then and now: 100 years of the High Street bbc.in/4fHCdSV
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Paul Stainton has a very valid point. This is an issue that the Civic Society will be bringing up with Peterborough City Council officers at a liaison meeting in a few weeks time @PeterboroughCC
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Civic Pride: Take a walk... it's all mapped out trib.al/hqLo0v5
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What does it take to keep a city positive?
In our latest issue, we sat down with the team at Peterborough Positive – the people quietly scrubbing graffiti on Sunday mornings, filling Cathedral Square with film screenings, and making sure every business in the city centre has a voice.
Pep Cipriano and his team are doing work that matters – connecting businesses, animating public spaces, and proving that positivity isn't just a mindset. It's a strategy.
Read the full story here: bit.ly/4nKjmJ8
#Peterborough #PeterboroughPositive #CityOfCulture2033 #CityRegeneration #BusinessImprovementDistrict #LocalBusiness
@PboroPositive @PeterboroughCS @PeterboroughCC @pborocathedral @PboroMuseum @Queensgate_PB @CambsPboroCA @andrewpakes_ @docshab @PaulStainton @paulbristow79 @TobyWoody @Railworld
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May 18
Bridge Street Peterborough, the first in the late 1959s/early 1960s, the second this afternoon – I know which one I prefer!
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May 18
Had a wander around Peterborough city centre this afternoon – splashes of colour really help! Many thanks @PboroPositive - you are certainly making a difference!
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May 18
A splendid Peterborough skyline … the north side of St John’s Church looking past Miss Pear’s Almshouses Cumbergate towards Peterborough Cathedral this afternoon …
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May 18
Small pieces of art turn up in the most unlikely places – at the Bourges Boulevard entrance of Queensgate on the way to Peterborough railway station … this afternoon
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May 18
What would John Clare say? Long Causeway Peterborough this afternoon ….
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Peterborough Lido turns 90 this year. It survived a WWII bomb, two fires and repeated closure threats – saved every time by the community that loves it. Now there's a new book and a free exhibition celebrating nine remarkable decades. Magic, in every sense.
Read the full story: bit.ly/4ueNuif
#PeterboroughLido #90Years #Peterborough #OutdoorSwimming #TheMomentMagazine
@PeterboroughCC @PeterboroughCS @TobyWoody @andrewpakes_ @docshab @PboroPositive @PboroMuseum
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Peterborough Civic Society is really pleased to support The Moment Magazine – really high-quality, lots of interesting articles and extremely well written. Long may it continue! @MomentMag
CRASH OF THE TITANS
Peterborough Cathedral prides itself on welcoming all comers, from every faith or walk of life – but in April it opened its doors to its strangest visitor yet: a 37 metre long, 100 million-year-old dinosaur.
Weighing in at an estimated 57 tonnes, Patagotitan mayorum may be the largest creature ever to walk the earth – five times more massive than the largest elephant. On loan from the Natural History Museum (NHM), the life-size skeleton – standing 6 metres tall – will be on display until 31 May.
The Moment talked to NHM palaeobiologist Professor Paul Barrett, who opened the exhibition, about what we can learn from dinosaurs, why size matters and what brought the giant creatures’ reign to a catastrophic end…
Read the full interview here: bit.ly/4wqIhoK
@pborocathedral @PeterboroughCC @PaulStainton
#Dinosaurs #DinoTwitter #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Peterborough @PeterboroughCS @TobyWoody @Hotchilly56 @andrewpakes_ @paulbristow79 @docshab
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