2 years on…another look around PETERBOROUGH

The Bull Hotel, originally dating back to the seventeenth century, was a small coaching inn with only eight rooms up until 1901. The front entrance and reception area was a courtyard, which provided convenient access from the main street through to the nearby cattle market situated in what is known today as Cattle Market Road.
In the eighteenth century, it was customary for hostelries and inns to be given a "town pound" from the local magistrate meaning that a certain amount of livestock would have to be accommodated in the outhouses as a service to the local farmers staying overnight, prior to Market Day. As a courtesy, stables were provided for resident guests in what is now the hotel car park.
Today, however, The Bull Hotel, has benefited from major development and refurbishment which commenced in the early 1970s, when the then Labour Government provided grants to help develop the hotel industry.
Since then much has changed, and in 1998, The Bull Hotel was acquired by Mr Robert Peel, Previously The Chief Executive of Mount Charlotte and Thistle Hotels, after the creation of Peel Hotels PLC.
Wortley almshouses
The building itself contains a lot of history and was originally brought in 1744 by Sir Edward Wortley Montagu, Peterborough MP’s between 1734-1761; he also served as British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
It was then designated as a workhouse and it is said that visiting the workhouse inspired Charles Dickens’ to write Oliver Twist.
Embassy theatre
The Embassy Theatre is a historic structure on Broadway in the city of Peterborough in the United Kingdom, which operated as a cinema from 1953 to 1989. The Embassy Theatre was designed by David Evelyn Nye in the Art Deco style and built by The Demolition & Construction Co. of Croydon using the locally produced Fletton bricks. It opened in 1937, putting on performances by well-known performers such as Laurel and Hardy.
Nye was usually a cinema architect, and this was his only theatre. the building was converted into a cinema in 1953, later becoming the ABC and finally Cannon Cinema. It tripled in size in 1981, before finally closing in 1989. Since 1996, part of the premises have been occupied by the Edwards bar chain.
Peterborough Cathedral is one of the finest Norman cathedrals in England. Founded as a monastic community in 654 AD, it became one of the most significant medieval abbeys in the country, the burial place of two queens and the scene of Civil War upheavals.
Although it was founded in the Anglo-Saxon period, its architecture is mainly Norman, following a rebuilding in the 12th century. With Durham and Ely cathedrals, it is one of the most important 12th-century buildings in England to have remained largely intact, despite extensions and restoration.
Peterborough Cathedral is known for its imposing Early English Gothic West Front (façade) which, with its three enormous arches, is without architectural precedent and with no direct successor. The original church, known as "Medeshamstede", was founded in the reign of the Anglo-Saxon King Peada of the Middle Angles in about 655 AD, as one of the first centres of Christianity in central England. This medieval carving of 12 monks, six on each side, commemorates the destruction of the Monastery and the death of the Abbot and Monks when the area was sacked by the Vikings in 864. The Hedda Stone was likely carved sometime after the raid, when the monastery slipped into decline.
Although damaged during the struggle between the Norman invaders and local folk-hero, Hereward the Wake, it was repaired and continued to thrive until destroyed by an accidental fire in 1116. This event necessitated the building of a new church in the Norman style, begun by Abbot John de Sais on 8 March 1118 (Old Style). By 1193, the building was completed to the western end of the Nave, including the central tower and the decorated wooden ceiling of the nave. The ceiling, completed between 1230 and 1250, still survives. It is unique in Britain and one of only four such ceilings in the whole of Europe. It has been over-painted twice, once in 1745, then in 1834, but still retains the character and style of the original. (The painted nave ceiling of Ely Cathedral, by contrast, is entirely a Victorian creation.)
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