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Date of photo: 1960s	Picture source: peterboroughimages.co.uk
The Bull & Dolphin was situated on Bridge Street.
Source: Mike Lewis
The pub was known as ‘the B&D’ and was the ‘in pub’ in the 1970’s. The pub held disco’s / played music in the back room. Sunday night’s was heavy rock night (playing the Who, Queen etc.). What the majority of people remember about the pub is the ‘B&D Shuffle’. It was a song called ‘Love Won’t Be Denied’ by Len Boone. There was a dance routine that went with the song (I still haven’t mastered it even though it’s very simple) which was unique to Peterborough. The song only fills dance floors locally and still fills dance floors in Peterborough today. When the song is asked for further afield, even as little as 20 miles away, DJ’s have either never heard of it or play it and the dance floor empties.
Ray Cole (September 2016)
From Peterborough Heritage:
A former public house, later a nightclub, now a restaurant. The building retains fragmentary remains of a timber framed building, possibly of 16th century date. It was of three bays, floored at first floor level, and lay parallel to the street. The building has an 18th century brick frontage, and its rear is of 19th and 20th century dates. The building is recorded as "The Bull" in 1811 and the "Bull and Dolphin" by 1822; it remained so named until 1983 when it became "Rinaldo's Nightclub". It formed part of the estate of the Peterborough Feoffees (i.e. charity trustees) in 1774 and was sold by them in 1874 to the then landlord, Francis White. Whether it was a public house before 1774 or became one between 1774 and 1811 is uncertain. The Feoffees were founded in 1752 but it is not possible to determine whether their endowments in Bridge Street included what became the "Bull and Dolphin"
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