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Peterborough Market Place in 1836

9

Sedan Chair

19

Cottages in Paston

20

The Old Bridge over the Nene

27

Sexton Barns

29

Peterborough Market Place in 1795

36

Map of Whittlesey Mere

47

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Advertisement, A peculiar

40

An Alibi

43

Balls

19

Barns

29, 31

Beacon, A lighted

22

Beadle, The City

16

Breweries

10

Bridge, The old wooden

27

Buckle’s Brewery

10, 11

Burglaries

43

Burial at Cross Roads

32

Burial Ground, The Old

34

Butcher’s Piece, The

41

Cabbage Row

31

Calculating Boy

10

Castor, Old system of farming at

22

Cattle Market

33

Cemetery, The

34

Coaches, Mail

11, 12, 13

Constables, Parish

17

Contrast, A

13

Cost of Travelling

12

Distemper, The

40

Draining the Great Level

23

Epitaphs

35

Executions

41

Extraordinary Medley

34

Fairs

19

Fen around Peterborough

23

Fen Drainage

23, 25

Fen Taxes

27

Franking Letters

16

Frisby’s Feat

12

Frog Hall

32

Gaols

17, 30

Gas Works started

32

Gates, Toll

9

God’s Acre

34

Guildhall, The

41

Hangings

41

Hostelry, The Thorpe Road

30

Infirmary, The

10

Intelligent Fenmen

27

Jaunt through the City

29

Ladies and the Cattle

33

Land, Improvement in value of

27

Level, The Great

23

Level, Draining the Great

23

Lock-up Story

43

Mail Coaches

11

Market, Cattle

33

,, The old

33

„ Wednesday

34

Mere, Whittlesey

19

Mill, The Old

14, 27, 29

Mill system of Draining

25

Mud Case, The

44

Nene Outfall, The

25

Newspapers

38, 39, 40

Newtown

31

Notorious Family, A

17

Oasis in the Desert

21

Packets, River

15

Parish Constables

17

Paston

22

Ponds

31

Poor House

31

Poor Law

30

Post Office

37

Postal Charges

15

Railways

11, 14, 44

Railways and Earl Fitzwilliam

14

Retrospective

45

River Packets

15

Robbery at the Vicarage

43

Sedan Chairs

19

Sexton Barns

29

Smothering the Cathedral

14

Snatched from the Sea

25

Tales of the Coaching days

12

Theatre

17

Toll Gates

9

Tombstone Rhymes

35

Tythe Barn, Boroughbury

31

Value of land improved

27

Whalley, Mr. G. H.

15

Whittlesey Mere

19