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For the information on this particular tour, we are indebted to the work of T E Faber whose extraordinary study of the history of St Clement’s parish was posthumously published privately in 2006:
An Intimate History of the Parish of St Clement in Cambridge, 1250-1950
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 at the Museum of Cambridge on Castle Street
1.100 Castle Street, White Horse Inn, Museum of Cambridge
Cross over to Magdalene Street and proceed along east side
Cambridge Core and Flower Trail
3.7 Magdalene Street (site of)
5.Quayside – for a detailed description of the buildings Quayside as it was before the demolitions of the 20th century – visit these sites, otherwise move on to Bridge Street:
6.2 Quayside, The Cock and Pie
3 Quayside, The Jolly Waterman
10.31 Bridge Street, Anchor Inn
11.30 Bridge Street, The Peacock
12.29 Bridge Street, The Crow
13.28 Bridge Street, The Greyhound
14.27 Bridge Street, The Griffin
15.25-26 Bridge Street, The Barley Mow
16.24 Bridge Street, The Black Swan
18.21-22 Bridge Street / Copyn Hall, 36 Thompson’s Lane
Turn Left into Thompson’s Lane
19.The Old Vicarage, Thompson’s Lane
20.34 Thompson’s Lane, in 1913 home of bookseller Gustav David
21.3 Thompson’s Lane, The Nine Pins (site of)
22.Thompson’s Lane synagogue / historical site
23.31 Thompson’s Lane, Clerk’s House and home of the Cambridge Tapestry Company
24.30 Thompson’s Lane, Malpas Lodge
26,28 Thompson’s Lane, Varsity Hotel
Turn left to continue on Thompson’s Lane
27.Thompson’s Lane & Richmond Terrace
Turn right onto Park Parade
Turn right onto Portugal Street
31.21-27 Portugal Street, University Racquet and Fives Courts (site of)
32.8 Portugal Street, home of William Hackleton, town missionary
Take a short detour to the left on Portugal Place
33.19-20 Portugal Place, home of Francis Crick, Nobel prize winner
34.The Maypole, publican in 1901 Charles Rowell
Return to main section of Portugal Place
36.10 Portugal Place, home of Prof. Meyer Fortes
37.9 Portugal Place, the Cambridge Valet
39.7 Portugal Place, Parish School
41.20 Bridge Street, The Salutation
Turn right and then cross the road onto the west side of Bridge Street
42.51 Bridge Street, Saracen’s Head (site of)
43.46/47 Bridge Street, The White Swan (site of)
44.45 Bridge Street, le Cage (site of)
45.43 Bridge Street, The (Black) White Bull (site of)
46.39 Bridge Street, The Griffin (site of)
47.38 Bridge Street, The Red Lion (site of)
49.36 Bridge Street, The Tabbard / The Marquis of Granby
52.33 Bridge Street, The Fox and Goose
Continue on along west side of Magdalene Street
53.31 Magdalene Street, Bullen’s boatyard
54.30 Magdalene Street, Pickerel Inn
Arrive back at the Museum of Cambridge
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