Maybe it's time I stopped knocking Peterborough!

Advantages: Beautiful building packed with historical significance
Disadvantages: It's in Peterborough - enough said

...I grew up just outside Salisbury and like most others in that location, I was successfully indoctrinated in the belief that there is no better architectural splendour on God's good earth than Salisbury Cathedral. My childhood was punctuated with afternoon field trips filling out work sheets, annual school carol concerts playing my clarinet very badly in the school orchestra and even two weeks of so-called post O'level 'work experience' playing in the cathedral shop. All these and more conspired to fill me with a sense of my home city's superiority in the cathedral stakes. By contrast Peterborough took on something of a bogey-man city status. As a student I would endure awful minibus journeys across the country to play ice-hockey at the Peterborough Ice Rink in the wee-small hours of the night. It seemed to be a place riddled...

koshkha 30.10.2006 · Read review
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Marriott Hotel Peterborough

Advantages: Clean & very comfortable, good location, nice food
Disadvantages: None

...We stayed at this Marriott Hotel in Peterborough for the night about a month ago now because we had been invited to a friends wedding there at the hotel. This hotel has 162 rooms and it is a 3 star hotel. The location is really tranquil and the hotel is surrounded by really nice pretty gardens and large green fields. We paid £90 for a double room and we got a discount for being guests at the wedding, i think breakfast is at a small extra cost but im not 100% sure so you would need to chack this. Its set within 11 acres or so of grounds adjacent to Peterborough's Main Business Park, we found this hotel really easy to find and very well signposted. We found the staff to be really friendly but extremely professional and helpful at all times. We got checked in really quickly and within 5 minuites we were in our room...

kate44 12.06.2007 (13.06.2007) · Read review
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In and around Peterborough

Advantages: its easy to get the train into london
Disadvantages: flat countryside

...My ma in law lives in Peterborough. I grew up in a small village in Cambridgeshire; Peterborough was about 30 miles away. I think I only visited once when I was a child. But when I was 16 I went to Peterborough technical college now called Peterborough regional college. Here I took my N N E B certificate. The college holds many different levels of courses. A levels, GCSEs GVNQs, BTECs, Professional qualifications, skills for life and many others. Peterborough is on the train line from London up north, The A1 runs about 8 miles west of Peterborough. Peterborough is 80 miles north of London. And many people commute to London for work. The bus service is fair. I used to catch the bus from my village to Peterborough they ran every hour, The journey took about 1 hr 20 minutes I soon got digs with family while I attended college...

mumsymary 22.01.2006 · Read review
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Central Park, Peterborough.

Advantages: An oasis in the city
Disadvantages: None that I know

...I have lived in Peterborough for 37 years, and the Central Park has always been the place to take your children, photos of the park go back to Victorian times and the actual layout has not changed since then. For one it cannot get any bigger as it is in the older central part of the city with buildings all around, though this does not distract from the Park itself. The Park is one large circle with a very wide road around the outside. There are four gates, entry points to the Park and about ten yards in an inner footpath that goes around the Park. The four gates all have footpaths that lead to the centre which is a large flower bed that has a willow tree, this my husband tells me was planted some time in the 60's as there used to be a band stand on the same spot. It seems that the demise of the band caused the band stand to be...

bostonianbeer 24.08.2008 · Read review
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Hand and Heart, Peterborough

Advantages: Small, old, friendly and welcoming.
Disadvantages: Nothing to add here.

...Having been drinking in the Hand and Heart for many years now, let me tell you about the little oasis in the back streets of Peterborough. Even to local Petreburgians, if you mention the Hand and Heart they will say that they may have heard of it but not been or never heard of it. Such a well guarded secret, not really. A few years ago the young lads would do a pub crawl, The Crown to town along Lincoln Road, starting at The Crown, New Inn, Greyhound, Triangle, Locomotive, Windmill, Eight Bells, oh! missed The Hand and Heart, as it is on a side street, Norfolk, Tom Lock, Geneva's and then whichever pub you called at in town. It was and still is very rare the lads on the Crown to town call in at the Hand and Heart, perhaps a good thing? The Hand and Heart has been a public house since the 1930's and on entering for the first...

bostonianbeer 31.03.2008 · Read review
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The Buttercross, Central Park, Peterborough

Advantages: Trusted, safe and clean.
Disadvantages: Nothing

...My daughter, grandson and I visited the Buttercross Tea Rooms in Peterborough Central Park on Thursday. The Buttercross has been in the park for a few years now, but as I use to live close by never used it as it was easy to go home for a cuppa. It is situated in the very centre of the park and has no competition in the area, even so it is not over priced. It is clean well run by the family and got very busy as it was half term and there where lots of children playing in the park. We were delighted with what we found and the service there. The owners are Italian, and the staff where extremely kind and efficient. They have 34 covers, which is enough inside as not that big and table and chairs outside and people where sat outside enjoying the sunshine. It was 11-30am and on the busy side, but we were served very quickly...

bostonianbeer 07.04.2008 · Read review
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The Palmerston Arms, Peterborough

Advantages: Great place to go for a pint
Disadvantages: None

...Are you a real ale drinker? Have you visited any of the real ale pubs in Peterborough? If the answer to these two questions is "No", then I recommend that you visit The Palmerston Arms, a.k.a. The Palmy. This is a unique pub in Peterborough that it serves every week, up to 15 real ales, plus real cider all straight from the casks, not a hand pump used on any of these. Most weekends they have the 15 beers, which is usually 5 Bateman's, XXXB, XB, Bateman Mild, Bateman Salem Porter and the seasonal brew from Bateman's. They have as a regular Oakham's White Dwarf, Castle Rock Harvest Pale and the rest will be? They do serve, as a new feature, Leffe beer and Kriek, from a hand pump but that is the limit. The Palmerston Arms has been a public house in Peterborough along the Oundle Road for more years than I would like to...

bostonianbeer 26.03.2008 · Read review
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The great, Great Northern Hotel, Peterborough

Advantages: Taxi's outside 24 hours, and owned by the great Peter Boizot.
Disadvantages: Nothing................

...My husband is the youngest of six children and it would have been their father's birthday this weekend. He would have been 102 although he died 23 years ago. The family meet up for dinner the first weekend in December in Peterborough with partners for a family get together. This weekend we went to The Great Northern Hotel for dinner. The Great Northern Hotel is opposite the Peterborough railway station and is owned by Peter Boizot, of Pizza Express fame. Peter is an old Petraburgian and now lives back in Peterborough having spent a lot of years in London. We were all very impressed. Dinner was booked for 7-30pm so we arrived and met for pre dinner drinks in the bar, to be greeted by a wedding reception going on and people in kilts, and very nice dresses. We were shown through to our table in the Silverlink Restaurant...

bostonianbeer 13.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Peterborough in General

Norwich & Peterborough - Gold Current Account

Advantages: Excellent Customer Service, Competative Overdraft and Credit Interest Rates
Disadvantages: Lack of branches outside of East Anglia

...I have recently started using a Norwich & Peterborough BS Gold Current Account. The customer service I've recieved so far the service has been excellent. When I've had need to call I've been answered straight away with no automated menu system. The online banking is simple to use, the interface being similar to the Natwest system but without the lag. My only criticism is that it currently lacks the ability to download statements for use in Microsoft Money. The interest rate on the account varies depending on the monthly turnover on the account but is paid monthly. For regular savers, however, a rate of 8% is available at the time of writing (Nov 2007). Overall, the product is comparable to that provided by Nationwide but exchanging a lack of branches outside East Anglia for a far better remote service....

zacb 24.11.2007 · Read review
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Express by Holiday Inn, Peterborough

Advantages: Close to the East Of England Showground
Disadvantages: Small Bathrooms

...I stayed at the Express by Holiday Inn, Peterborough when my work Christmas Party was held at the East Of England Showground. I booked the hotel room about a month before via ichotels.com, who i have a priority club through. The first thing I noticed was that the hotel have a very limited amount of car parking spaces, not generally a problem but our group of four all had cars, we managed to find spaces (some on the hotel site and some on the street), got our bags and walked into reception. The reception was very light , quiet and nicely decorated. Reception staff were quick to locate our reservation and check us all in, we were all advised about the breakfast buffet which was included in the price of the room (nice surprise - none of us knew this). Thankfully both twin rooms were located close by (you know girls - all that...

pikeygirl 23.09.2006 · Read review
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