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Junction opening. John Peel with Dez Glennon (Junction employee) and Eric Orme from the City Council..Credit: Pete Edwards who was doing work experience as a photographer at the Cambridge Evening News whilst he was at Parkside School.

The Opening Night

February the 14th 1990

Cambridge Evening News January 24th 1990

“Against all of the odds, John Peel, Boo Hewerdine (with the ‘Bible’), and the first core staff team of just seven (Jasmine Henry, John Wroe, Jonathan Goodacre, Grant Barden, Joe Wallace, A bar manager who’s name I cannot remember and me), opened the Junction on Valentines Day 1990. We did not know if the building would be ready on time as the Newcastle based, construction firm went bankrupt and the only way we were able to persuade the Geordie workers to stay on site was to bring them a case of Newcastle Brown Ale each morning! But we made it and the opening festival entitled ‘A Taste Of The Future’ was a great success and just about sold-out. ”
Paul Bogen, Director 1990-2007

 

‘It’s widely believed that youngsters with nothing to do and nowhere to go are a potential source of trouble…’  About Anglia feature about the opening of Cambridge Junction, February 1090.

 

Cambridge Evening News. February 1990

‘Lost Nights and Love Songs’ is a Heritage Lottery funded project celebrating 30 years of The Cambridge Junction. www.junction.co.uk/lost-nights

Dear Visitor,

Thank you for exploring historical Cambridgeshire! We hope you enjoy your visit.

Capturing Cambridge makes accessible thousands of photos and memories of Cambridge and its surrounding villages and towns. It is run by the Museum of Cambridge which, though 90 years old, is one of the most poorly publicly funded local history museums in the UK. It receives no core funding from local or central government nor from the University of Cambridge. As a result, we are facing a crisis; we have no financial cushion unlike many other museums in Cambridge and are facing the need to drastically cut our operations back.

This could affect our ability to continue to run and develop this groundbreaking local history website. If Capturing Cambridge matters to you, then the survival of the Museum of the Cambridge should matter as well.

If you won’t support the preservation of your heritage, no-one else will! Your support is critical.

If you love Capturing Cambridge, and you are able to, we’d appreciate your support today.

Every donation makes a world of difference.

Thank you,
Roger Lilley, Chair of Trustees
Museum of Cambridge