Lost Cambridge

The maps uploaded by the National Library of Scotland show the city just before major infrastructure projects and the comprehensive redevelopment of the city centre Start here, then zoom in to have a browse The maps are even more detailed than the land use

It didn’t actually change much, bus as Oxford had it, why couldn’t we?

In October 1994 Mike Petty wrote a brief guide for teenagers working on local history projects.

…and the national redistribution of the receipts from them (similar to what happens with business rates revenues today) and the imposition of a local income tax.

In 1904 the Cambridge Women’s Liberal Association hosted an event at the old Cambridge Liberal Club building on Downing Street on the issue of taxing land values to fund local government.

In the 1960s it became clear that the new council housing estates were lacking in community facilities.

The old Cambridge – St Ives – Huntingdon railway was closed during the Beeching era, but by the late 1980s local residents called for it to be reopened.

Several pamphlets from the 20thC have arrived of late covering all things trams and light rail, mindful of the announcement on the future of the Cambridge Airport site See BBC Cambridgeshire here for the sale of the airport site – recalling that back in 1…

Labelled as The Cambridge Great Traffic Debate (now in its Nth decade!)

The Cambridge Independent ran a feature in its weekly newspapers called Pen pictures of women workers.