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Caption For Cardiff, The Promenade, Roath Park 2004

With so many bicycles present this busy scene is more reminiscent of Oxford or Cambridge.

Caption For Waterbeach, High Street C1955

The first village settlement was around a huge green beside the Car Dyke, a Roman ditch that connected Cambridge with Peterborough and the north.

Caption For Southport, Lord Street 1896

On the right is the clock tower of Cambridge Hall; the clock and chimes were paid for by William Atkinson.

Caption For Waterbeach, The River Cam, Clayhithe C1955

In the 17th century many people thought that the river Cam would dry up as a result of Vermuyden's drainage scheme; Cambridge university and the town both protested against the building of the Denver Sluice

Caption For Swavesey, The Cobblestones C1965

It fell out of use when the St Ives to Cambridge railway was built in c1850.

Caption For Horningsea, Lock Gates River Cam C1955

North-east of Cambridge, the River Cam quickly becomes wooded on either side, setting an attractive scene here at Baits Bite Lock.

Caption For Horningsea, Lock Gates River Cam C1955

North-east of Cambridge, the River Cam quickly becomes wooded on either side, setting an attractive scene here at Baits Bite Lock.

Caption For Grantchester, Byron's Pool C1946

It is here that the poet Byron is said to have swum naked with a choirboy from Cambridge.

Caption For Southport, Cambridge Hall, Art Gallery, Library And Bank 1887

The complex was built on a site previously occupied by a row of cottages adjacent to Cambridge Hall, and opened in 1878 having cost around £14,000.

Caption For Grantchester, High Street C1965

The Cambridge Cottage Improvement Society bought them in 1938 for £150, and with a grant, Wrights Row was repaired and modernised.

Caption For Camberley, London Road 1901

We are now looking towards Bagshot, with the Cambridge Hotel the last building on the right.

Caption For Sawston, High Street C1965

The number of inns in Sawston is proof of its importance: it was on the coaching routes between Cambridge and London, and from Norwich to the south-west.

Caption For Hitchin, Boys Grammar School 1901

They were opened by the then Master of Trinity College Cambridge, the Reverend Butler.

Caption For Aylesbury, Market Square C1955

This view looks east past the much-reduced George pub, with Burton's facade beyond, to the junction of Cambridge Street at the left and High Street to the right of the Round House.

Caption For Camberley, Cambridge Hotel C1955

To the right one can just see the Cambridge Tea-Rooms, a smart place to have morning coffee or afternoon tea.

Caption For Warrington, Academy And Cromwell Statue 1901

From 1757 until 1762 this had been the earlier site of a higher education institution for Nonconformists, who were barred by law from attending Oxford or Cambridge University.

Caption For Bury St Edmunds, St James' Cathedral Church, Interior 1922

This shows the early 16th-century nave and aisle designed by John Wastell, the architect of King's College, Cambridge.

Caption For Thorney, Abbey 1890

In 1579, 146 tons of stone were shipped from here to Cambridge for the new chapel of Corpus Christi.

Caption For Aldershot, Union Street C1965

Parked outside Timothy Whites (left) is a 1954 Austin A40 Cambridge saloon.

Caption For Cambridge, St John's College 1890

Although the Cambridge version, built in 1831, has barred unglazed windows, the students passing through it were not necessarily looking their last upon the outside world as were the users of the original