Down Your Street, Cambridge Past & Present: Volume II East Cambridge

The Pevensey Press, Cambridge, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. Illustrator: Photo's. b/w. map frontis; "Following the highly successful first volume of Down Your Street, Central Cambridge, and again in response to public demand, this book brings together articles on East Cambridge from Sara Payne's ever-popular series in the Cambridge Weekly News. Oral testimony, documentary record and photographic evidence again combine to reveal the identity of the individual streets that give a neighbourhood its character. This time, however, the story is about part of the City that tourists seldom see but thousands of Cambridge residents, past and present, have been born and brought up in: the area that includes Barnwell, Romsey, St Matthew's and the Kite. Open fields in the Middle Ages, it was still agricultural land in the 1830s; then speculative building and the advent of the railway filled it with narrow streets of terrace houses for Cambridge's new workforce. Sara Payne charts the growth and vividly evokes the corporate life of these densely populated streets in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially their strong community spirit - a spirit that has lasted into the current era of renovation, gentrification, and proliferating local craftsmanship and small businesses, and has played its part in the crucial decision-making about the future of the area that was in progress while the articles were being written. The book also traces the origins of some of Cambridge's most attractive residential streets - north, west and south of New Square - following the fortunes of the developer-architect Charles Humfrey, who owned the land. A fascinating selection of b/w. photographs old and new again enhances the text, many of them from the archives of the Cambridgeshire Collection. Like its predecessor, this volume will appeal to all who have an interest in local history, and to everyone who has ever lived in, worked in, or visited Cambridge."; a neat & clean copy; including titles, contents, foreword, preface, & bibliography Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 143 pages. no Dust Jacket as published.. Black titles spine. Illustrator: Photo's. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: History; East Anglia; Topography Great Britain; Photographs; England; Genealogy & Local History. ISBN: 0907115195. ISBN/EAN: 9780907115199. Inventory No: 4684. . 9780907115199