Mike Petty Archive Project

General Resources

In July 2026 the Museum of Cambridge was invited by Mike Petty MBE to upload his entire digital catalogue on to Capturing Cambridge and integrate it into our existing research. This was a great honour for us and the task has commenced. However, the volume of data is considerable and proper integration into our geolocated database will take time.

Progress will be reported here. We will list the files which are both accessible via this site and whose content has been, to a greater or lesser degree, integrated within Capturing Cambridge in a methodical way.

Mike Petty’s Cambridge Arbury & Kings Hedges Scrapbook 1897 to 1990

Mike Petty’s Cambridge EMMANUEL STREET Scrapbook

Mike Petty’s Cambridge King Street Scrapbook 1897 to 1990

Mike Petty’s Cambridge Mill Road Scrapbook 1897 to 1990

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NB: as from July 2026 there is a Mike Petty Archive source tag in use on Capturing Cambridge. We are trying to ensure that all entries where we have used extracts from Mike’s Archives are credited. Many thanks Mike for all your work!

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This is the previous information we gave to assist with accessing Mike Petty’s data. It remains valid but increasingly the files will also be available via Capturing Cambridge:

A Cambridgeshire bibliography, vol.1: books and pamphlets. An annotated bibliography of printed material added to the Cambridgeshire Collection 1855-2016

https://archive.org/details/ACambridgeshireBibliographyVol.1BooksAndPamphlets

A Cambridgeshire Bibliography, vo1.2: an annotated list of the articles in the Cambridge Antiquarian Society Proceedings 1859-2017 and Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire Archaeological Society Transactions 1901-1953

https://archive.org/details/CambridgeAntiquarianSocietyProceedingsIndex

Fenland Notes and Queries Contents List. An index and partial abstract of material appearing in Fenland Notes and Queries, a quarterly antiquarian journal for the fenland, 1889 to 1906. In was a forum in which people sent in questions about the history, ecology etc to which others replied

https://archive.org/details/FenlandNotesAndQueriesContentsList

https://archive.org/details/CambridgeARCHAEOLOGYChronicle

https://archive.org/details/CambridgeARCHIVESChronicle

Copies of Newspaper Articles 1905-1985:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/153171359@N04/albums

Guide and Illustration Catalogue:

https://archive.org/details/CambridgeshireIllustrationsPart1Index/Cambridgeshire%20Illustrations%20part%201%2C%20%20Index/page/n23/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/CambridgeshireMemoriesAndReflectionsByMikePetty/page/n9/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/CambridgeAntiquarianSocietyProceedingsIndex/page/n9/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/StoriesFromAYearMikePetty_201503/page/n5/mode/2up

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