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Fitzroy Street / James Street 1980 Museum of Cambridge photo collection

Photos taken at the time of the demolition of the Kite area

A printed public notice from Cambridge City Council regarding 1980 street closures, attached to a green metal drainpipe.

A perspective view of a quiet street with a white antique shop and a row of terraced brick houses under a pale blue sky.

A brick building with arched windows and a gabled roof stands on a street corner, with residential and shop fronts alongside.

Eden Baptist Chapel, Fitzroy Streetc.1980

The red wooden frame of a demolished shop storefront with letters d ls remains, looking out over a cleared site of debris.

A red-framed shopfront with the letters d ls above it overlooks a vacant demolition site with terraced houses in the back.

A partially demolished brick building shows exposed interior walls and fireplaces above a pile of rubble on a paved sidewalk.

A gable wall supported by three wooden beams stands next to a decorative lamp post near a pile of rubble on a street.

A street scene showing the Morley storefront, a parked white sedan, and a pedestrian walking across the road in Cambridge.

Morley, 23 James Street c.1980 (MoC)

A demolition site showing a partially ruined brick wall covered in peeling wallpaper rising above a foreground of rubble.

A partially demolished brick terraced house with boarded-up openings, an exposed roof structure, and two prominent chimneys.

A 1980 street view of Fitzroy Street, Cambridge, showing terraced buildings, parked cars, and a streetlamp under a clear sky.

A street view of Fitzroy Street showing a restaurant facade with a striped awning, adjacent to a white wall with painted art.

A street corner in 1980 with a DIY shop featuring a pink sign, an overalls store on the left, and a cyclist in the distance.

Street view of Fitzroy Street with Wescot Jean's on the corner, showing Victorian brick buildings and a quiet asphalt road.

An angled view of a shopfront with a red-framed window displaying television repair services, adjacent to a quiet street.

A large metal excavator bucket sits before a demolition site with a standalone fuel pump and piles of brick rubble.

A row of terraced houses stands beyond a cleared lot containing a yellow fuel pump, an excavator bucket, and debris.

Morley, 23 James Street c.1980 (MoC)

A denture repair shop with boarded-up windows beside a closing-down electronics store on a street with white-fronted buildings.

43 / 41 Fitzroy Street c1980 (MoC)

Yellow construction vehicle parked on rubble beside a partially demolished building with the words GET OUT spray-painted on it.

A weathered brick facade shows a window with a green-diamond sign, a lower window box with a plant, and a dark doorway with drums.

A brick house exterior with a doorway and window boarded up with bricks and an upper window displaying painted protest text.

A cluttered shop window display features glass objects, mirrors, and bric-a-brac with a notice taped to the central glass pane.

White wooden hoardings feature red spray-painted text saying OCCUPY and LONG LIVE TO SAVE THE KITE above painted flower shapes.

A brick-walled building in ruins stands beside a low brick wall featuring the word GUILTY painted in large red letters.

Two handwritten menu signs in a shop window state that the menu is limited due to the threat of demolition for Potters.

A mural of figures in silhouette painted on the exposed brick wall of a partially demolished building amidst ground rubble.

A storefront with boarded-up windows painted with a mural of a person standing behind a counter with paint tins.

A gable wall mural features a geometric diamond pattern in red, blue, and yellow with two tree silhouettes behind a picket fence.

A painted shop sign reading PICTURE FRAMING above illustrations of three framed items on a tan wall with a scalloped edge.

Street view of Fitzroy Street buildings featuring painted murals on the shopfronts and brick facades of numbers 46 to 52.

Painted mural of a woman behind a shop counter with stacks of paint cans and shelves of products in two arched alcoves.

A partially demolished brick building with a mural of police officers on an exposed interior wall, next to a construction digger.

A dark stencil mural on a weathered brick wall depicts several silhouetted figures including police officers in helmets.

Shopfront on Fitzroy Street with a sign reading Picture Framing above a mural of framed artworks on a yellow background.

Demolished brick wall with exposed interior rooms featuring a stencil mural of silhouettes of figures on a yellow background.

The white brick facade of a shop features painted panels depicting hand tools and the text You Can Still Do It Yourself.

59 – 61 Fitzroy Street c.1980 (MoC)

Two street-level storefronts in Cambridge, one with dark brick and a striped wall, the other with a colorful painted window.

A white brick wall features a mural with three painted panels showing two men and a ladder beside a street sign and doorway.

Three-story brick corner building with a DIY sign, a mural reading You Can Still Do It Your Self, and an open shop door.

59 – 61 Fitzroy Street c.1980 (MoC)

The word KITE is painted on the large window of an orange-painted shopfront containing small ceramic figures on display.

A red storefront with a striped awning and a hanging sign reading KITE with a teapot icon, beside a wall with graffiti art.

Projects

  • Fitzroy Street
  • James Street

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James Street

Eden Baptist Chapel, Cambridge

43 (108) Fitzroy Street, Cambridge

25, (117) Fitzroy Street

99 (86) Fitzroy Street, Cambridge

59-61 (99 – 100) Fitzroy Street, Cambridge

63 (98) Fitzroy Street, Cambridge

133 Fitzroy Street, Cambridge

55 – 57 (100 -102) Fitzroy Street, Cambridge

125 (79) Fitzroy Street, Cambridge

107 (82) Fitzroy Street, Cambridge