10th Anniversary Champagne Draw

Competitions

The site first went live in June 1998 taking over as the only website about Peterborough from the Citygate site which had recently closed at that time.

The aim was to build an online community that was about Peterborough as it is today rather than the city's past, which has been the main subject matter of site that had gone before.

It was an uphill task at the beginning sourcing content when many businesses didn't even use email. Neither the local newspapers or council had their own website and there were fewer Internet users in general.

I remember when we all got very excited because we hit 500 visitors per month and has people posting on our message board.

Today Peterborough Community Website the regular 55,000-60,000 visitors to the site view more than half a million pages each month.
 

The draw winner was Angie Cooper from Westwood, pictured below receiving her prize.