The list below of links to the Capturing Cambridge website is a selection of the more interesting entries en route. Information about most of the buildings, and their historical occupants, that you will pass on this tour, and many that have vanished, can be accessed on the web site.
As with our other tours, suggestions of corrections and additions are most welcome and should be offered via the email address on the website.
Start on Hills Road, outside St John the Evangelist Church
1.St John the Evangelist Parish Church
4.221 Hills Road, home of the Bidder family
Turn right into Luard Road
6.1 Luard Road, home of Robert Whipple scientific instrument maker and founder of the Whipple Museum
7.5 Luard Road, home of Professor German Sims Woodhead, pathologist
8.9 Luard Road, home of Thomas Pigg-Strangeways, founder of the Cambridge Research Hospital
9.8 Luard Road, home of George Briggs, professor of Botany
10.11 Luard Road, home of Gerald Smyth, RAF, who was killed in an accident in 1918
11.23 Luard Road, home of Philip Dee, physicist
12.25 Luard Road, home of Elsie Watchorn, biochemist
13.31 Luard Road, life in war-time
14.4 Sedley Taylor Road, home of Nevill Francis Mott, physicist and Charles Hamson, lawyer
15.44 Sedley Taylor Road, home of Raul Richards, botanist
16.5 Sedley Taylor Road, home of L J Potts, lecturer in literature
17.42 Sedley Taylor Road, home of Max Perutz, Nobel Prize for Chemistry
18.6 Sedley Taylor Road, home of Juda Hirsch Quastel, biochemist
19.8 Sedley Taylor Road, home of Tim Whitworth, teacher and chess expert
20.12 Sedley Taylor Road, home of Ronald Ede, agricultural scientist, Valentine Chapman, plant collector, Thomas Lethbridge, explorer, and Peter Mosedale, educationalist
21.14 Sedley Taylor Road, home of Herbert Durham, pathologist
22.34 Sedley Taylor Road, home of Patrick Murray, zoologist and David Hardman, politician
23.15 Sedley Taylor Road, home of George Walker, mathematician
24.32 Sedley Taylor Road, home of Hugh Claye, WWI flying ace
25.17 Sedley Taylor Road, William Vaughan Lewis, geographer
26.31 Sedley Taylor Road, home of John Cockcroft, Nobel Prize for Physics, Alexander Todd, biochemist and Nevill Francis Mott, physicist.
27.18 Sedley Taylor Road, home of John Fleming Brock, medical researcher, and Alan Rook, clinical pathologist
28.29 Sedley Taylor Road, home of Sir David Williams, civil liberties scholar
29.19 Sedley Taylor Road, home of Sir James Beament, insect physiologist
30.20 Sedley Taylor Road, home Arthur Parker-Rhodes, photopathologist
31.21 Sedley Taylor Road, home of Frederick Shotton, geologist, and Eric Moullin, electrical engineer
32.26 Sedley Taylor Road, home of the Gray family
33.22 Sedley Taylor Road, home of the Rishbeth family
34.23 Sedley Taylor Road, home of the Miller family, founders of Millers Music Centre
Turn left into Long Road
35.Huccaby (possible location)
36.2 Long Road, home of David Shoenberg, physicist
Turn left into Hills Road
37.288 Hills Road, Henry Apthorpe, company director and artist
38.291 Hills Road, home of Frederick Hiam, agriculturalist
39.289 Hills Road, home of William Cutlack, brewery manager and military commander
40.266 Hills Road, home of John Bryn Edwards, Baronet and politician
41.263 Hills Road, home of Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton, economist and Liberal politician
42.254 Hills Road, home of Dr George Graham-Smith, lecturer in hygiene
43.251 Hills Road, home of Philip Franklen-Evans who died in action in 1918
44.250 Hills Road, home of Ernest Peck, pharmaceutical chemist and expert on poison gas in WWI
45.248 Hills Road, home of Major Arthur Chaplin who died from his wounds in 1917.
46.244 Hills Road, home of Harold Murray, educationalist and chess expert
47.247 Hills Road, home of Sir Andrew Claye, gynaecologist
Return to St John’s Church
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