A small museum, with a big story to share
In 1843, at fourteen years of age, Josiah Chater moved from Saffron Walden to Cambridge to take up a draper apprenticeship. He lived on St Mary’s Street opposite Holy Trinity Church (near present-day FatFace) and began a life in Cambridge.
What does it mean to travel through time? Can one really do that, step into another time and someone elses shoes..? It’s a cold winters morning, one of my first trial shifts as a volunteer at the Museum of Cambridge,
As the proud custodians of 40,000 objects, we have a lot of work to do taking care of them all. Whether an item is 60 or 600 years old, they all come with unique challenges. I’m Alex, the Museum of
The Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. Blackpool Tower. The Cenotaph in London. With Historic England’s reassignment of Grade 1 status to The Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, one of the largest Catholic Churches now has the high
Our building work continues at the Museum. After the repair to the two chimney stacks using reclaimed brick work has continued on cleaning and clearing the roof valleys of debris. That went relatively quickly and the site has moved onto
Three interesting items about this prominent Cambridge landmark have come the way of Capturing Cambridge in the last few months. It was in 1845 that local authorities in England were compelled in law to provide homes for the mentally ill.
The Museum of Cambridge has received a generous donation of £25,000 from a local donor to develop and expand its popular crowd-sourced local history website, Capturing Cambridge. One of the largest gifts the Museum has received, this substantial investment is
By Dr. Maya Parmar, Director of Hadithi C.I.C For me, identity is multidimensional, a mosaic of our own experiences and heritage, encompassing too those experiences of our family. My parents were born in Kenya, East Africa, we have roots in
Over the last 18 months or so, Covid allowing, I’ve scoured bookshops in Cambridge, Norwich, Lewes, and probably other places for interesting books to extract information from for Capturing Cambridge. It was in St Edward’s Passage, I think, that I
Seafood, cheese, and baking have all played their part in the Cambridgeshire’s culinary history. Trustee Roger explores them in detail.