This walking trail will lead you from St. Matthew's school across Parker's Piece to the Market place in the heart of Cambridge, exploring the important stories along the way including the prehistoric pterosaurs of Coldham's Common, Queen Victoria's Coronation Festival, the Victorian workhouse, the Great Fire of Cambridge Market, and give you insights into how Mill Road got its name, the story of football, and much more!
ou can see a preview or the trail and route below or download a pdf version HERE
Michael Rosen has composed poems about Cambridge people and places pinned to the history trail which Historyworks has recorded with some new songs performed by local primary children to entertain you on your journey. The trail lasts approximately 90 minutes.
Audio Trail downloadable in MP3 format available on the web at: www.audioboom.fm/historyworks
© Historyworks 2017.
This trail & accompanying audio have been devised and produced by Helen Weinstein, to whom all suggestions for revisions should be directed (historyworkstv@gmail.com).
Narration of the trails by Michael Rosen. Michael Rosen is a poet, novelist, broadcaster, famous for his poems like 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt', 'Chocolate Cake', and for this project his poems include 'The Fitzwilliam Lions' and 'Coldham's Common'.
Photos from Cambridgeshire Collection, the National Railways Museum and Historyworks.
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B) Cambridge Bath House
<p><span class="Apple-converted-space">The Bath House on Mill Road was once a place where local people would visit to wash, as everyone did not have mains water like …
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C) Ditchburn Place - Victorian Workhouse
<p class="p1">Ditchburn Place is the oldest surviving building on Mill Road and opened as a Victorian workhouse in 1838. The workhouse took in people who were …
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D) The Two Mills of Mill Road
<p>There have been two famous Mills on Mill Road. The street was originally named because of the windmill that was for milling grain to bake bread …
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E) Parker's Piece
<p class="p1">Parker's Piece is one of Cambridge's most famous open spaces, named after college cook, Edward Parker. Originally part of Trinity College, it was acquired by …
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F) Sedgwick Museum
<p class="p1">The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences was founded in 1904 in memory of Adam Sedgwick. It was designed as a working museum where research could …
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G) Rosalind Franklin & DNA Discovery
<p class="p1">The Cavendish Laboratory was founded in the 19th Century at Cambridge University to encourage the further exploration of experimental physics. Francis Crick joined the Medical …
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H) Unsung Women
<p class="p1">In 1897 the Victorian women of the University of Cambridge got rather fed up with not being allowed to graduate like their male classmates. Therefore …
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Other Points of Interest
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A) St Matthew's - Victorian School
<p> <span>The area of St. Matthew’s parish had a number of schools in the Victorian era building an Infant School in 1871 and a Primary School in …
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I) The Fire of 1849 in Market Square
<p class="p1">On the night of Saturday 15th September 1849 there was a huge blaze which came to be known as the Great Fire of Cambridge Market. …