Sepia-tinted photographic postcard showing a view of flower beds in Central Park, Peterborough, with the bandstand in the distance. Pencil: [personal message] [no address supplied - presumably sent in an envelope]. Central Park, Peterborough, was planned by the Peterborough Land Company in 1875 as the central feature in a housing development; it was opened in 1877 on a fee-paying basis; in 1908 it was taken over by Peterborough Council as a municipal park