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Peterborough Technical College
Peterborough College, established in 1946 as Peterborough Technical College, is a major further education college in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. History Engineering firms Peter Brotherhood and Baker Perkins relocated to Peterborough just after 1900 and, by the 1930s, British Thomson-Houston (which became Hotpoint), Newall Engineering and Mitchell Engineering were well established. Peterborough was already an important railway centre providing a great deal of work for the populace, but with all this industry there was no local provision for training. In 1903, the County Technical School was set up in a small building in Broadway in the city centre with boys studying mathematics, science, technical drawing and some technological subjects. Girls studied a programme for employment in commerce. This was closed in 1926 to save money. Some technical classes did continue but were held as evening classes at Deacon's Grammar School, other schools and the Broadway bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PE Postcode Area
The PE postcode area, also known as the Peterborough postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 38 postcode districts in eastern England, which are subdivisions of 18 post towns. These cover most of Cambridgeshire (including Peterborough, Huntingdon, Chatteris, St. Neots, St Ives, March and Wisbech), much of south Lincolnshire (including Bourne, Stamford, Spalding, Boston, Skegness and Spilsby) and west Norfolk (including King's Lynn, Hunstanton, Sandringham, Swaffham and Downham Market), plus parts of east Northamptonshire and very small parts of Bedfordshire and Rutland. __TOC__ Coverage The approximate coverage of the postcode districts: , - ! PE1 , PETERBOROUGH , Peterborough, Dogsthorpe, Eastfield, Eastgate, Fengate, Newark, Parnwell , Peterborough , - ! PE2 , PETERBOROUGH , Alwalton, Fletton, The Ortons, Stanground, Woodston , Peterborough , - ! PE3 , PETERBOROUGH , Peterborough, Bretton, Longthorpe, Netherton, Ravens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |