I love this clock. It is eccentric and a bit bonkers. It’s not about telling the time in the normal sense. In essence it is about how time eats and devours the seconds, minutes and hours. The hour is tolled by a chain clanking into a small wooden coffin, hidden away in the back of …
Founded by two Queen’s in the mid 1400s, the college is linked by the world famous Mathematical Bridge. There is a magnificent medieval Old Hall. The badge of the college has a wild boar’s head, which was the badge of King Richard III. His wife, Anne Neville was a college patron. The Old Court was …
This is the most famous and most visited college. I love the architecture, it is big and exalting. There are long queues to the televised ‘Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols’ on Christmas Eve. It was founded by Henry VI (who also founded Eton College). However the War of the Roses and lack of money …
This has educated some of the most renowned alumni, including Charles Darwin and John Milton. The bottom of the gate has been cut off to accomodate a rise in street level. It has lovely wisteria in the spring on the Master’s Lodge. The modern tiered concrete New Court building has been called ‘the Typewriter’. It …
This is a large college with attractive grounds and many sculptures. It’s full name is ‘The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund’, but that is a bit of a mouthful. The cockerel is the college symbol, after it’s founder John Alcock, Bishop of Ely. The …
A beautiful college, which has a large number of courtyards. The School of Pythagoras is the oldest academic building in Cambridge. Wordsworth had a room here. The lovely ‘Bridge of Sighs’ links the college. It was founded by the Lady Margaret Beaufort and has produced three Archbishops, nine Nobel Prize winners and six Prime Ministers. …
This is the richest college in Cambridge and Oxford Universities combined, with a landholding worth £800 million. This makes it one of the wealthiest estate owners in the UK (behind the Crown Estate, the National Trust and the Church of England). The lands owned are as diverse as the Port of Felixstowe, the O2 Arena, …
Cambridge is traditionally thought of as the Colleges. They are beautiful and stand for 800 years of history. Of course there is so much more to Cambridge too. A whole town thrives apart from the University. Over the years there have been tensions between ‘town’ and ‘gown’. However for me having lived in Cambridge for …
