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Paperback slight crease on the back cover by Sara Payne- b/w illustrated-Pub:-The Pevensey Press Vol l 1983-presents 176 pages…This book brings together the articles on central Cambridge from Sara Payne’s popular weekly newspaper series Down Your Street-Book condition.

Reviews:

• Past times remembered with affection makes absorbing reading for anyone who has lived in Cambridge during the last forty years

• A classic book on a fine city and the normal folk that live & work here. Now a capsule of its time but fills in many historical gaps that are otherwise lost.

Sara Payne: “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.”