Cambridge, Market Place 1890
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Perhaps not on a par with the great Suffolk wool churches, Great St Mary's, overlooking the Market Place, is none the less an impressive piece of Perpendicular architecture. Many great clerics have preached here, including Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer.
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A Selection of Memories from Cambridge
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Cambridge
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I was born at gaffers buildings grapes hill as a young boy 3-4 yrs old im sure I watched the circus coming up grapes hill my aunt whos 10yrs older disagrees and says they came up princewales rd after coming off train at Thorpe station nigel john larter
From 1947 to 1956 we lived at Hardwick and drove into Cambridge once a month
I enjoyed it on hot summer Saturdays, when we would have a picnic on the backs overlooking Kings College.
I remember seeing the sad sight of disabled soliders wheeling their three wheeler bikes by hand.There was about twenty of them from a Cambridge hospital and they travelled out to Hardwick.
I was about seven at the time in ...see more
The Cambridge American Cemetry was built after the second war, during this time the odor of rotting bodies being buried at Madingley,caused my father to drive his taxi (photo) on the St Neot's Road or via Madingley Village depending on the wind direction. The sweet smell of death was often present during the construction. On another occasion my father, Ronald Newell, who owned the ...see more
Like Marion DelFavero, I remember Trevor Hughes. He used to sit on the fountain steps in the middle of market square. My brother was in 'the Force' in those days and he used to say when the weather was really bad you could expect Trevor in for the night. Apparently a very clever man who fell on to hard times for the love of a woman...so rumour has it. Certainly a favourite character of the times, many photo's taken with him.
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