Step Into History
Walk Cambridge in 1890
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Step Into History · City walk
Victorian Cambridge, 1890
Cambridge in 1890 is a university city of stone chapels, college courts and a new scientific laboratory clustered along the River Cam, threaded by gas-lit streets, horse-drawn traffic and market stalls. This walk moves from the railway approach into the heart of the colleges, follows the river with punts and rowing eights, and visits the women's colleges at Newnham and Girton before finishing atop the old castle mound.
35 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Cambridge as it stood in 1890 (“Cambridge”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Cambridge Railway Station
- 2. Hills Road Approach
- 3. Trumpington Street
- 4. Fitzwilliam Museum Front
- ↳ Main Picture Gallery · interior
- 5. Downing Street Junction
- 6. Market Hill
- ↳ Market Hall Interior · interior
- 7. Great St Mary's Church
- ↳ Nave and University Pulpit · interior
- 8. King's Parade Shopfronts
- ↳ Antiquarian Bookshop · interior
- 9. King's College Exterior
- ↳ Chapel Nave and Choir · interior
- 10. The Backs by the Cam
- ↳ Trinity Great Hall · interior
- 11. Clare Bridge
- ↳ Clare College Hall · interior
- 12. Quayside and Magdalene
- ↳ Pepys Library · interior
- 13. Magdalene Bridge
- 14. Silver Street
- 15. Mathematical Bridge
- 16. Jesus Green
- 17. Parker's Piece
- 18. Newnham College
- ↳ Newnham Common Room · interior
- 19. Girton College
- ↳ Girton College Hall · interior
- 20. Cavendish Laboratory
- ↳ Experimental Physics Hall · interior
- ↳ Apparatus Store and Workshop · interior
- 21. St Bene't's Tower
- ↳ Belfry Chamber · interior
- 22. Castle Hill Mound