Walter Hancock, Empty Common
Empty Common
History of Empty Common
1831 cartoon on steam coaches
In 1839, according to The Cambridge Nobody Knows (1977), Han[d]cock’s Steam Coach, built to run between Cambridge and London in four and a half hours, arrived for the first time on 30th September. It was described as a lumbering carriage with a dozen seats. One after it left the road and came to rest in Empty Common. The following day it left for the races at Newmarket and was never heard of again.
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