Bishops Road Bus Station, Peterborough

Before the Queensgate Bus Station appeared in the mid 1980s, the main bus station was situated on a site just in front of the Lido, outdoor swimming pool in Bishops Road. The city's crown court and Key Theatre car park now sits on what was the old bus station site.

I have found it very hard locating old photographs of the Bishops Road bus station. I would love to see this page expanded, so if any of our visitors have any photographs of the bus station please consider sending a copy to Peterborough In Pictures.

The exact date of this photograph is unknown but it could be late 1950s or early 1960s. The Lido building can just be seen in the background on the right-hand side.

Again, the exact date of this photograph is unknown, but I would hazard a guess at sometime in the 1970s. In this photograph, the Lido can clearly be seen behind the buses.

The photograph above is of a bookstall which was situated on the site of the old bus station. It was sent in by Marion Brown who also gave us the following information about the bookstall:

'This was the original bookstall on the site (later it was enlarged) and family legend has it that it was built in the garden of 40 St. Leonard's Street which is now under the Queensgate carpark. Mr. Jimmy Green, my grandad, built it and ran the business for decades. It had a smell of its own made up of paraffin lamps, newsprint, chocolate, dust etc. It stood on the opposite side of the bus station from the Lido on the same plot as the tea rooms and booking offices. Now those tea rooms! I can smell them now. Warm, damp, plastic, cigarette smoke, teaspoons on chains. Happy days.'