Burrows Bros,55/57 Westgate,Peterborough.

I used to go to Burrows in the mid 1960s with my 1957 BSA Dandy (yuk - but I passed my test on it) and then 1955 Matchless G3LS.

The showroom and spares were at the address you give above, opposite the end of Lincoln Road. Their workshop was about 200 yards up the road towards the station. It was run by Bernard Stimpson with his mate Dennis, who always had a fag on.

Most of the premises in this area were demolished in the 1970s to construct the temple to consumerism known as Queensgate Shopping Centre. I was studying and working away by then so can only guess that Burrows closed down rather than move elsewhere.

Bernard set up on his own as Bernard's Motorcycles (I think) in Lincoln Road not far from the original shop, and took on a Honda dealership. At some point, perhaps the 1990s, he sold the business but continued to work there on a casual basis. Around 2000, he was doing the MoTs on my Nortons.

Recently, I bumped into the person who bought the business from Bernard. He had incorporated the Honda bike dealership with a car dealership elsewhere in Peterborough and then retired himself. He told me that Bernard had died quite recently so I suppose he was in his 90s.

There must be bikers around who didn't move away as I did and can give more precise detail, but presumably not NOCers.

Photos - no, why would I? There ought to be something on websites concerning historical Peterborough, if you have the patience to trawl through them.

Hello Nick,

my 1949 Mod. 18 was also supplyed by Burrow Bros.

There are some posts at Access Norton to Burrow Bros.

Can You please show a picture of the dealers plate?

Thanks Helmut