News from Peterborough City Council

Peterborough City Council will say a fond farewell to its superintendent registrar Janet Elliott when she retires at the end of March.

 

Friends and colleagues will join her in the Mayor's Parlour on Friday 28 March, from 4 pm to 6 pm, to recognise her distinguished career and the Mayor, Councillor Marion Todd, will make a formal presentation.

 

Janet joined the city council as a registrar in 1986 and was promoted to superintendent registrar five years later. When she started, the registration service occupied a mobile building on Thorpe Road before moving to its purpose built home. Staff numbers have almost trebled since those early days, reflecting the growing range of services the department offers.

 

During this time, whether it's been a birth, marriage or death, Janet and her team will have provided a first-class professional service for the city's residents. She will have been a familiar face at hundreds of marriages and dozens of civil partnership ceremonies, as well as organising the recently introduced citizenship ceremonies.

 

"Janet will be sorely missed when she retires on Monday after such a long and distinguished career," said Councillor Todd. "During my year of office I have had the pleasure of working with her on the citizenship ceremonies and was able to see at first-hand what a first-class job she does for the city. I wish her a very happy retirement and know that I speak for her colleagues and her friends when I say that we will be very sad to see her go." 

 

To find out more about wedding ceremonies, or any other services offered by the register office, telephone (01733) 566323 or visit www.peterborough.gov.uk/reg where it is possible to take a virtual tour of the office.