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Andrew Percival
A lively local historian with a gift for memory, he captured the streets, customs, and everyday life of old Peterborough before they slipped away. His writing feels close to spoken recollection, full of small details that bring a changing town back into view.
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Notes on Old Peterborough
by Andrew Percival
About the author
Andrew Percival is known for Notes on Old Peterborough, a work preserved and circulated by the Peterborough Archaeological Society and later made widely available through Project Gutenberg. In it, he looks back on Peterborough as he remembered it, sharing anecdotes about local buildings, customs, transport, and social life.
What makes the book memorable is its personal angle. Rather than writing a dry formal history, Percival records the texture of ordinary life and the ways the town changed over time. That gives his work the feel of a witness account as well as a piece of local history.
A portrait included with the Project Gutenberg edition identifies him as Andrew Percival and notes that it was taken in 1901. Beyond what can be confirmed from that edition and its publication history, biographical details are limited, so his surviving reputation rests mainly on the vividness of the recollections he left behind.