Six city walks, from 1.2 to 11.7 miles long, in celebration of the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games. • Route notes and points of interest • Cultural highlights • University Olympians & Paralympians • Ones to watch for 2012

Working in partnership to promote sport in Cambridge www.walkcam2012.co.uk Guidelines for walkers Walk Cambridge in 2012 has been designed to Green Route • Wherever possible cross showcase the very best of Cambridge – be it roads by pedestrian 4.4 miles - see page 4 crossing. sporting or cultural, town or gown. An ideal route for visitors arriving by rail. Highlights • Keep on footpaths include the Fitzwilliam Museum, Mill Road Cemetery whenever possible. Around the City are wonderful free and the Botanic Garden. • Be courteous to other museums, beautiful open spaces, pedestrians and road users sporting venues, historic Colleges, river Red Route at all times. views, and whether you are a tourist or 2.3 miles - see page 8 • Give way to oncoming cars and reversing live in the City you might just find hidden A relatively short route taking in some of the vehicles. places you might never otherwise have classic views of the River Cam and The Backs, • Ideally walk in daylight found. Walk around, embrace the as well as museums and shopping areas. when routes are well lit. atmosphere, stop for a coffee and watch the world go by or • Refrain from using learn something new whilst stretching your legs and if you Blue Route headphones and mobile 3.2 miles - see page 12 phones whilst walking the manage all six you will have completed your own marathon! This route crosses Jesus Green and the River routes. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Cam to visit the North West of the City, returning Crown copyright and database • Remain vigilant of your The project has been granted the Inspire right 2012 surroundings and keep mark by the London 2012 Inspire programme, past Kettle’s Yard and the Folk Museum. observant at all times. which recognises innovative and exceptional Yellow Route • Place all rubbish and litter projects that are directly inspired by the 2012 in litterbins provided Olympic and Paralympic Games. 3.3 miles - see page 16 across the City. Wind down narrow lanes to the River Cam and The Backs, • Choose a route suitable to then visit the Fitzwilliam Museum and Christ’s Pieces. you – don’t take risks by The Inspire programme is run by the London Organising tackling overly long or Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. It is Accessible Route difficult routes. an opportunity for everyone to be a part of the Black Route 1.2 miles - see page 26 • Make sure you have London 2012 Games – a broad participation 11.7 miles - see page 20 This shorter route is fully accessible for plenty to eat and drink programme spanning sport participation, and are adequately The longest of the walks, the Black Route takes in some wheelchair users and offers views of many dressed for the length of education, sustainability, volunteering, and of the more outlying areas of Cambridge. of the major colleges and the River Cam. time you’ll be out. business opportunities & culture. New • Ensure you wear opportunities are being created to inspire young Cultural Highlights for 2012 page 29 appropriate footwear people and encourage the whole of the UK to join in. Follow us on when walking. Wear University Olympians & Paralympians page 33 comfortable, good fitting, www.london2012.com/inspire-programme worn in boots or shoes, Ones to watch for 2012 page 37 especially on the longer routes. www.walkcam2012.co.uk University of Cambridge page 38 #walkcam2012 • Prepare for the weather. Anglia Ruskin University page 39 Ensure you wear The mobile way to appropriate clothing for Walk Cambridge in 2012 the conditions. Just take a picture of the QR code. Have you walked a Marathon? • Ensure you carry a mobile Compatible with all major smartphones. phone or personal alarm Whether it’s completing all six walks or your own when walking. Powered by personal marathon reward yourself with a Walk • Carry some form of Live Cambridge identification in case of an Local insight day and night Cambridge in 2012 cloth badge. accident or medical Available for 50p each at the Tourist Information Office in the Guildhall emergency. building, just off the Market Square. • Inform someone of your Find us on Facebook: WalkCam2012 whereabouts prior to the Completed your Marathon or just enjoyed walk and inform them of the walk? Why not send us your comments, Thanks to Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire Councy Council, Cambridge University Alumni Relations Office, when you expect to be Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Colleges Development Group, Emma Fletcher, Rachelle Stretch, Sir Cam, Michael back. photos or add yourself to the list to the Marathon walkers. French, Joanna Bowzyk, Nigel Luckhurst, John WIlliams, Robin Speed, Helen Robbins and all the volunteers who tested Cover Photos © University of Cambridge / Sir Cam, Joanna Bowzyk, Nigel Luckhurst This page © University of Cambridge / Sir Cam, Joanna Bowzyk the walks and whose feedback was invaluable.

2 3 Route notes A After passing Emery Street, look for a pathway leading off on your right between iron railings - this Green Route leads to Mill Road Cemetery. (10,140 steps, 405 calories*) 4.4 miles B On leaving Mill Road Cemetery, turn left on Norfolk Street, then second left into Blossom Street and An ideal route for visitors arriving by rail, this route takes in the vibrant Mill Road area and first right into Flower Street. Follow Flower Street round until you reach Broad Street, where you it’s hidden gem of a cemetery. It continues past Anglia Ruskin University and Fenners Cricket turn right. ground, before heading towards the River C At the end of Mill Lane continue straight on through the vehicle barrier, cross over the mill weir, then Cam via The Fitzwilliam Museum bear immediately left, following the river initially, then forking right. and returning to the Station D As you approach the mill pond, turn left, just after crossing a footbridge and immediately before you past the University of reach the old mill building (now a restaurant). Cambridge Botanic E After crossing Fen Causeway at the lights, keep to the path on the left bank of the mill stream. As Garden. you approach a footbridge on your right, bear left to cross the River Cam using another footbridge.

B 1 Cambridge Station The Station is the busiest in the East of England with over 7 million passengers per year. A 4 Grade II listed building, it also boasts the third longest platform in the UK and links 3 Cambridge to London, Ely, Ipswich and Norwich. The station area is currently 13 undergoing a major regeneration project,

12 2 known locally as CB1 to create a new gateway Commons © Sunil060902/Wikimedia C 6 for the city. 5 A 11 2 Ditchburn Place 10 Built in 1838 as a workhouse for the poor, Ditchburn Place takes its name from the last D Master and Mistress to manage the 9 workhouse in 1934. From 1948 to 1983 it was 7 also the town’s Maternity Hospital. The site is now used for assisted and general needs

© Cambridge City Council housing. 8 The galleries Williams Art (see page 32) and E The Frontroom (see page 30) are to be found 14 nearby on Gwydir Street (straight across Mill Road at the end of St Barnabas Road).

3 Mill Road Cemetery 15 1 Purchased in 1847 the cemetery is a Grade II listed site with around 20,000 burials, most in Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database unmarked graves, with around 3,500 marked right 2012 by headstones. The cemetery is open all day, every day of the year and is a special place to

Take particular care of relax, be peaceful, watch the birds, walk the dog © Cambridge City Council traffic at these locations and absorb the history and spirit of remembrance. www.millroadcemetery.org.uk *Estimated, based on 60kg female walking at medium pace. Continued>

4 5 4 Anglia Ruskin University 10 The Judge Business School With around 30,000 students and 1,000 academic staff, Anglia Ruskin is Cambridge Judge Business School, established in 1990, is a world-class one of the largest universities in the East of England. The University offers institute for management studies and research. It was established thanks a wide range of degrees relating to sport, including sport science, sports to generous benefactions from Sir Paul and Lady Judge, together with the coaching and sports journalism. Current Olympic hopefuls include James Monument Trust. The listed building, completed in August 1995, is a Shane (athletics) and Danny Williams (Judo). For a full list of Olympians refurbishment and extension of the old Addenbrooke's Hospital which

© Anglia Ruskin University see page 33. was first established on the site in 1766. www.anglia.ac.uk © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam www.jbs.cam.ac.uk Hughes Hall & Fenner’s Cricket Ground 11 Peterhouse College 5 Founded in 1284 by the Bishop of Ely, Peterhouse is the oldest and smallest Hughes Hall is the oldest Graduate College in the University of of the constituent colleges in the University of Cambridge. With 45 Cambridge. Originally a training college for female teachers, the Fellows, 260 undergraduates and 110 graduate students the College also College first took men in 1973 and now has students representing over boasts four scientific Nobel Laureates. Electric light was brought to the © Hughes Hall 60 nationalities. Former student Hester Goodsell represented the UK © University of Cambridge College second only to the Houses of Parliament, to mark Peterhouse’s rowing at the Beijing Olympics and is one to watch in 2012. 600th anniversary in 1884. For a list of Olympians see page 35. www.hughes.cam.ac.uk www.pet.cam.ac.uk Adjacent to Hughes Hall is Fenner’s, the University Cricket Ground, which for over one hundred years has hosted first class cricket and is home to the MCC 12 Pembroke College Cambridge Centre of Cricketing Excellence. Pembroke College, founded in 1347 by the Countess of Pembroke, it is the third oldest of the Cambridge colleges and the first to have its own 6 Parker’s Piece chapel. It now has approximately 70 Fellows, 442 undergraduates and During the 19th century, Parker’s Piece was the centre of the University of about 260 graduate students. The College boasts 14 former Olympians Cambridge’s sports and was the site of numerous Varsity matches with Oxford. including rower Kieran West who took Gold in Sydney (2000) in the Formally a cricket ground, Parker's Piece has a special place in the history of Men’s Eight and rower Cath Bishop who took Silver in Athens (2004) in

modern football games, as it was here that the Cambridge © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam the Women’s Coxless Pair (see page 35). © Cambridge City Council Rules of 1848 were first put into practice. www.pem.cam.ac.uk

7 Scott Polar Research Institute - FREE 13 The Mill and Laundress Green A memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his four companions, Once used by University washerwomen, who dried their washing on the who died returning from the South Pole in 1912, the Museum contains grass, Laundress Green marks the head of navigation for the River Cam. a unique and fascinating collection of artifacts including journals, Only minutes from the city centre, it is a very popular gathering place for picnickers and drinkers from the nearby riverside pubs. Punts can be hired for

photographs, clothing and maps. The Institute also has an international Institute © Scott Polar Research reputation for its research on the Arctic and Antarctic, in both the taking up river to Grantchester, or for floating down stream past The Backs. © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam natural and social sciences. Open from 10am-4pm, Tuesday to Saturday. www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum 14 The River Cam & Cambridge Canoe Club The Cam was once known as the Granta, but after the name of the 8 Hobson’s Conduit Anglo-Saxon town of Grantebrycge had been modified to Cambridge Hobson’s Conduit fountain forms part of the watercourse that was built the river’s name also changed to match. As a swimming place, the Cam from 1610 to 1614 by Thomas Hobson to bring fresh water into Cambridge was made famous by poet Rupert Brooke and friends including included from springs at Nine Wells, a local nature reserve near the village of Great EM Forster and Virginia Woolf. Cambridge Canoe Club based on the © Cambridge City Council © JPD Williams Shelford. The wide conduits along Trumpington Street mark the route of the river caters for both recreational and competitive paddlers. watercourse into the Market Square. www.cambridgecanoeclub.org.uk

9 The Fitzwilliam Museum - FREE 15 University of Cambridge Botanic Gardens Since its opening in 1846, the heritage-listed Garden holds a plant The Museum houses world-class collections of works of art and collection of over 8,000 plant species from all over the world to facilitate antiquities spanning centuries and civilisations. During 2012 it will teaching and research. The Garden is a refreshing oasis for visitors of all

host the largest and most remarkable exhibition of over 350 ancient © JPD Williams ages. Current Garden highlights and suggested routes can be found on royal treasures ever to travel outside China. More details on page 30. © JPD Williams their website www.botanic.cam.ac.uk. The Garden and cafe opens daily www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk at 10am.

6 7 Route notes A In Sidgwick Avenue you will be taking the first left, Ridley Hall Road, but first, to visit the the Museum Red Route of Classical Archaeology, continue along Sidgwick Avenue (100m), then return. 2.3 miles (5,260 steps, 210 calories*) B At the end of Ridley Hall Road you will be turning left into Maltings Lane, but first turn right onto A relatively short route, starting from King’s College and taking in some of the classic Newnham Walk to the gates of Newnham College (200m), then return. views of the River Cam and The Backs, as well as the C Cross Newnham Road carefully using the pedestrian crossing. Walk past the front of the old mill (now University of Cambridge Museums of a restaurant) then bear slightly left, crossing two small footbridges to reach the banks of the River Cam. Classical Archaeology, Zoology D As you pass Christ’s College fork left into the pedestrian zone, then shortly turn left down Petty Cury. and Earth Sciences. E Turn right to walk along the east side of Market Square, then straight on into Rose Crescent. At the It also passes the end of this turn left, then almost immediately right into Trinity Lane. remarkable F After 120m Trinity Lane bends round to the left. Some 35m beyond this turn right down Garrett Corpus Clock. Hostel Lane to visit the River Cam (170m), then return to the junction and continue as you were. G About 45m beyond the Garrett Hostel Lane turn you will be turning left into Senate House Passage, but first continue straight on to see Clare College (50m), then return. F 15 1 King’s College 12 13 D Founded in 1441 by Henry VI, houses, shops G E and even a church between the river and 14 11 King's Parade were leveled to make way for the College, now world-famous for its Chapel and choir. The Christmas Eve service from

1 King's is broadcast to millions around the world. © University of Cambridge 10 The King's Art Centre, established in the 1970s is 2 open to the public 11am to 5pm daily. The College 8 boasts eight Olympians in rowing, athletics and Paralympic swimming (see page 34). 3 www.kings.cam.ac.uk 4 9 2 Corpus Christi College 4 Founded in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi 7 and the Blessed Virgin Mary, it is unique in being the only Oxbridge College founded by the citizens of the town. Outside the Taylor library on the corner of Bene’t Street is a structural clock, the 5 A © JPD Williams chronophage or ‘time-eater’ designed by an alumnus, Dr John Taylor, which was unveiled by Professor Stephen Hawking in 2008. The College has five former Olympians (see page 33). www.corpus.cam.ac.uk 6 C B Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database 3 St Catharine’s College right 2012 Founded in 1473, the College now comprises 69 Fellows, 150 graduate students, and about 410 undergraduates. In the nineteenth century Queen Victoria and Prince Albert attended a dinner at the College and stayed the night in what is known as the Old Lodge. The College boasts eight Take particular care of Olympians (see page 35), including Richard Dodds, the traffic at these locations captain of the Gold wining Hockey team in Seoul (1988). *Estimated, based on 60kg www.caths.cam.ac.uk © University of Cambridge/Nigel Luckhurst female walking at medium pace. Continued>

8 9 4 Queens’ College 10 Emmanuel College Queens’ was founded by two Queens of England: first in 1448 by Margaret Founded by in 1584 on the site of a former priory, famous members wife of King Henry VI, then refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth wife of King include John Harvard (1607 - 1638) and Thomas Young who, whilst Edward IV. It’s two halves are joined across the River Cam by the famous watching ripples on the College pond, invented the wave-theory of light. Mathematical Bridge, built in 1749 and rebuilt in 1866 and 1905. Alumni The College has its own outdoor swimming pool within the grounds and include Stephen Fry, Simon Bird, actor in the comedy series The Inbetweeners has produced 13 Olympians in sports ranging from lacrosse to long jump, and Michael Foale, the first Briton to perform a space walk. The College has © Emmanuel College fencing, football and hockey (see page 33).

© University of Cambridge produced four Olympians in rowing, skiing and football (see page 35). www.emma.cam.ac.uk www.queens.cam.ac.uk 11 The Guildhall and Market Square 5 Museum of Classical Archaeology - FREE The Cambridge Guildhall is a listed building designed in 1939 by Founded in 1884, the museum contains a collection of about 450 casts of Charles Cowles-Voysey. It is the seat of government of Cambridge

Greek and Roman sculpture. From its earliest days leading explorers of the City Council. As well at the Council offices, the tourist information © JPD Williams Classical world received their first training at the museum. office is located on the eastern side of the building. The Cambridge Open Mon. to Fri. 10:00-17:00pm; Sat. (Univ. term only) 10:00-13:00. Arts Theatre and Cambridge Corn Exchange are nearby (see page 29). www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum www.cambridge.gov.uk

6 Newnham College © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam Lectures for Ladies started in 1870 and Newnham began as a house for five 12 The River Cam and views of the Backs students in 1871. The first building on the current site opened in 1875. It is the The Backs were listed as a Grade I Historic Park in 1995 and are over 400 years only undergraduate college with an all-women Fellowship with currently 400 old. The land has been used for grazing livestock or growing fruit, with the River undergraduates, 150 postgraduates, and about 70 academic staff. Former Cam an important commercial route.The main activity on this part of the river is now punting, with the stretch after Jesus Green Lock being used for rowing.

Olympians include Anna Bebington who achieved a Bronze medal rowing at © University of Cambridge © Newnham College the 2008 Beijing Olympics (see page 34). www.newn.cam.ac.uk 13 Trinity Hall 7 Pembroke College Founded in 1350 by Bishop of Norwich to educate clergymen and Pembroke College, founded in 1347 by the Countess of Pembroke, is lawyers, the early Colleges were referred to as Halls. Trinity Hall has the third oldest of the Cambridge colleges and the first to have its own one of the oldest boat clubs on the river, founded 185 years ago. The © Trinity Hall © Trinity chapel. It now has approximately 70 Fellows, 442 undergraduates and College boasts 20 Olympians including 15 medal winners and two from about 260 graduate students. The College boasts 14 former Olympians the last Olympics: Tom James (Rowing) & Emma Pooley (Cycling) – see including rower Kieran West who took Gold in Sydney (2000) in the page 37 for details. Billy Fiske (America's youngest medal winner) was at Men’s Eight and rower Cath Bishop who took Silver in Athens (2004) in Trinity Hall – a film starring Tom Cruise has been made about his life: A Few.

the Women’s Coxless Pair (see page 35). © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk www.pem.cam.ac.uk 14 Clare College Founded as Clare Hall in 1326 by Lady Elizabeth de Clare, this is the 8 Museum of Zoology - FREE second oldest College in the University. The Fellows’ Library possesses Dating from 1814, the museum is home to a huge variety of recent and thirty-five incunabula (books printed before 1500) and about 400 books fossil animals including specimens collected by Charles Darwin. These include printed before 1640. The College was one of the first to admit women in the box of British beetles and a diverse collection of invertebrates. The museum 1972 and now has 95 Fellows, 180 graduate students and about 460 runs two zoologist clubs for children aged 6-13 and 13-18 interested in students following undergraduate or professional courses. Clare boasts 13 animals. See also page 31. Open Mon. to Fri. 10:00-16:45; Sat. 11:00-16:00 Olympians in sports including fencing, rowing and running (see page 33). © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk www.clare.cam.ac.uk 9 Sedgewick Museum of Earth Sciences – FREE 15 Gonville and Caius College Opened in 1904, the museum houses an internationally important collection The College was first founded as Gonville Hall by Edmund Gonville and refounded in 1557 by John of over 1.5 million fossils, rocks and minerals. For budding fossil hunters, Caius as Gonville and Caius College. It is home to 500 undergraduates, 250 graduates and 110 highlights include a complete 10m long Iguanodon skeleton, a 70cm senior academic members. Referred to as Caius (pronounced 'keys') it has produced twelve Nobel skeleton of Compsognathus, a reconstruction of a Velociraptor together Prize winners, Harold Abrahams, the Olympic sprinter immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire and with an excellent shop filled with dinosauria! See also page 32. comedian Jimmy Carr. Physicist Professor Stephen Hawking is a fellow. The College also boasts Open Mon. to Fri. 10:00-13:00 & 14:00-17:00; Sat.10:00-16:00 over 17 Olympians (see page 34) and a number of hopefuls for London 2012. www.sedgwickmuseum.org © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam www.cai.cam.ac.uk

10 11 Route notes A Walk down the passage way (Portugal Place) to the right of the St Clement’s church. This widens into Blue Route Portugal Street to reach Jesus Green – continue across the Green to the footbridge and cross the river. (7,290 steps, 291 calories*) 3.2 miles B Cross Victoria Road with care and enter the cemetery between the brick pillars (next to French’s Starting from St John’s College in the centre of Cambridge, this route crosses Jesus Green Road). After 30m turn left and follow the central path to Histon Road. Turn right. and the River Cam to visit the North West part of the City. It passes several of Cambridge’s C Look for a blue gateway and sign on your left - this is entrance to Histon Road Recreation Ground. more recent colleges and buildings, including Continue to the far exit, then take the short Wentworth Road to reach Oxford Road. the Centre for Mathematical Studies, D Cross Madingley Road using the pedestrian crossing, then continue straight on down the pathway. before returning past Kettle’s Yard gallery and the E Turn right into Haymarket Road. On reaching Pound Hill, take the footpath opposite (entrance next Folk Museum. to the street sign for ‘Honey Hill Muse’). F At the end of the footpath turn left on Northampton Street. For Kettle’s Yard turn left shortly, crossing a small green area. For the Folk Museum continue on to the traffic lights. 5

C 1 St John’s College St John's College was founded in 1511 by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII. She transformed the ancient hospital of St John 6 4 B the Evangelist, Cambridge (founded c. 1200), into a college for students in the liberal arts and theology. The College has produced over 30 © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam Olympians from rowing to bobsleigh and athletics. 7 For a full list of Olympians see page 36. www.joh.cam.ac.uk 8 2 The Hawks’ Club The Hawks' Club represents the cream of sportsmen 12 in the University of Cambridge. Established in 1872, 9 usual criterion for membership is that the candidate 14 should have his blue – i.e. have taken part in the E 13 3 match against Oxford in his particular sport. Many D famous sporting names have been, or are, members 11 © JPD Williams including Chris Brasher, Mike Atherton, Gavin 15 Hastings and Rob Andrew. F www.hawksclub.co.uk 2 10 The River Cam and Jesus Contains Ordnance Survey data 3 © Crown copyright and database right 2012 A Green Swimming Pool 1 Jesus Green hosts a wonderful avenue of London Plane trees and is bordered by the River Cam. Next to the © Cambridge City Council footbridge is Jesus Green Swimming Pool, one of the few remaining examples of the lidos that were built across the Take particular care of country in the 1920s and '30s. Built in 1923, at 100 yards in traffic at these locations length it is one of the longest outdoor pools in Europe. The pool opens for public bathing between May and September every year. *Estimated, based on 60kg Continued> female walking at medium pace. www.everyoneactive.com

12 13 4 Histon Road Cemetery 10 Centre for Mathematical Sciences Established in 1843 by the non-conformist community, Histon Road Occupied by the Faculty of Mathematics, the Isaac Newton Institute, and Cemetery was one of only three in England designed by the leading the Betty and Gordon Moore Library, this award winning development Victorian garden designer J C Loudon. The Cemetery is now Grade II* was designed by Edward Cullinen Architects and comprises six pavilions, a listed and is managed by The Friends of Histon Road Cemetery and double pavilion, a gatehouse and a library. “The profile of these joyous © Michael French Cambridge City Council. buildings will make you smile” The Guardian, 2003. www.histonroadcemetery.org

© University of Cambridge/Sir Cam www.cms.cam.ac.uk 5 Histon Road Recreation Ground 11 Lucy Cavendish College The Recreation Ground is a valued oasis off Histon Road. Cambridge Established in 1965, the Lucy Cavendish is the only college in the UK open benefits from over 88 parks and playgrounds in the city, more than 60 only to female mature students. It currently has around 360 undergraduate children's play areas and nine local nature reserves. A map of all these and graduate students with a continued commitment to widening areas can be found on the City Council website www.cambridge.gov.uk © JPD Williams women's participation in higher education. The Music and Meditation Pavilion in the college gardens was donated by Mai Mai Sze a translator of

C17 Chinese texts (in the college library) and Ireene Sharaff, a, famous © Lucy Cavendish College 6 Trinity Hall Sports Ground costume designer for Hollywood musicals, who won five Oscars for her work. The Ground contains a newly renovated pavilion with up-to-date gym and www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk aerobics studios, two Olympic standard squash courts, and facilities for football, hockey, rugby, cricket, netball and tennis (both grass and clay courts). © Trinity Hall © Trinity 12 St Edmund’s College Trinity Hall boasts over 20 Olympians. See page 37 for further details. St Edmund's College is one of six graduate colleges with about 50 Fellows www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk and over 400 student members. Noted for the strength of its international community: about two-thirds of the students are from some 60 countries, 7 Fitzwilliam College and one-third are UK residents. The College has produced over 10 former Founded in 1869 to widen access to Cambridge, Fitzwilliam moved to this site in 1963. At its heart College © St Edmund’s Olympic rowers - see page 35 for details. is The Grove, former home of Charles Darwin's widow, Emma. The gardens, open to the public, www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk are one of Cambridge's best-kept secrets. The central College buildings, including the unique Hall, were designed by Sir Denys Lasdun; the award-winning 13 Kettle’s Yard Art Gallery - FREE circular Chapel by Sir Richard MacCormac and the new Library by Edward Originally conceived with students in mind, the former owner Jim Ede (a Cullinan Architects. Former students include 10 past Olympians (see page curator at the Tate Gallery in London) kept 'open house' every afternoon, 33), most recently Fiona McIntosh (fencing) and Sarah Winckless (rowing). personally guiding visitors around his home. In 1966 he gave the house and

www.fitz.cam.ac.uk © Alison Carter its contents to the University of Cambridge. It is now one of Britain's finest galleries exhibiting contemporary and modern art. See also page 30. 8 Murray Edwards College and Open Tuesday-Sunday 2-4pm. Closed Mondays (except Bank Holidays). © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam the New Hall Art Collection - FREE www.kettlesyard.co.uk Founded as New Hall in 1954 to bring more women of outstanding potential to Cambridge, the College announced in 2008 its renaming as 14 Cambridge & County Folk Museum Murray Edwards College, following a generous donation from Ros Edwards, Established in 1936 the museum is housed in a former 17th-century inn. a former student. The College is also famed for its New Hall Art Collection The aim was 'to interest the ordinary citizen in aspects of local social life’. (www.art.newhall.cam.ac.uk), a permanent collection of modern and Amongst the wonderful and varied collections are opportunities to find

© Murray Edwards College © Murray Edwards contemporary art by female artists. It is open to the public from 10am to out how to tackle the laundry without the aid of a washing machine or 6pm every day. how to keep witches at bay with the use of a few ‘magical’ items… www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk © University of Cambridge Tues to Sat 10.30am-5pm. Tearoom Sat, Sun & Bank Hol. Mons 2-5pm. 9 Churchill College For more information see page 29 or visit www.folkmuseum.org.uk The College has some 450 undergraduates, 280 postgraduates, 150 15 Magdalene College Fellows and 140 staff and more than twenty of its members have won Magdalene was originally established in 1428 as a hostel for Benedictine the Nobel Prize. It is also the national and Commonwealth memorial student-monks, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College before to Sir Winston Churchill. The buildings, designed by the architect being re-founded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene. Of particular Richard Sheppard, were some of the first of the 1960's modernist interest is the Pepys Building which houses the famous diaries Samuel Pepys © Churchill College © Churchill tradition to be listed. The College has three former Olympians in bequeathed to College in 1703. Magdalene has produced eight Olympians in fencing and diving. See page 33 for further details. sports including sailing, equestrianism and hurdles – for details see page 34. © University of Cambridge/Nigel Luckhurst www.chu.cam.ac.uk www.magd.cam.ac.uk 14 15 Route notes A At the end of Green Street turn left, then shortly right into Trinity Lane. Follow this round a bend to Yellow Route the left, then shortly turn right down Garrett Hostel Lane. Follow this over the River Cam to The Backs. 3.3 miles (7,580 steps, 303 calories*) B To follow the full route, cross Queens’ Road on the pedestrian crossing. Alternatively, turn left along Starting outside Sidney Sussex College, this route winds down narrow lanes between the The Backs – you rejoin the main route near the back gate of King’s College. colleges to reach the River Cam and The Backs. Passing the Mill Pond and Fitzwilliam C After crossing the River Cam, and immediately after the Anchor pub, turn right into Laundress Lane. Museum, it heads West across Parker’s Piece D Turn right into St Andrew’s Street. You soon pass the Arts Picturehouse (see page 29). 150m further on to Cambridge’s ‘other’ University cross the road (now Regent St) at the pedestrian crossing, then head diagonally across Parker’s Piece. – Anglia Ruskin – before Contains Ordnance Survey data E Shortly after passing Anglia Ruskin University on your right, turn left into Dover Street. heading back to the city © Crown copyright and data- base right 2012 centre via the Grafton F At the end of Eden Street turn left. As you reach the open space of New Square, turn right into Fair shopping centre Street, then shortly left into Willow Walk. and Christ’s G Turn left into a narrow alley, immediately before the Champion of the Thames pub. Continue straight Pieces. on, keeping the high wall of Christ’s College on your right. 1 Sidney Sussex College Founded in 1596 by Lady Frances Sidney Sussex, the College is home to a diverse and dynamic community of some 350 undergraduate students, 100 graduate students and 50 Fellows. The College boasts Nobel 1 Prize-winners, beautiful ancient gardens and the G © JPD Williams F decapitated head of Oliver Cromwell, hidden within the grounds. For a list of Olympians see page 35. 15 www.sid.cam.ac.uk A 2 2 Trinity Hall B Founded in 1350 by Bishop of Norwich to educate E 3 clergymen and lawyers, the early Colleges were referred to as Halls. Trinity Hall has one of the oldest boat clubs on 14 the river, founded 185 years ago. The College boasts 20 Olympians including 15 medal winners and two from the 11 last Olympics: Tom James (Rowing) & Emma Pooley D (Cycling) – see page 37 for details. Billy Fiske (America's

13 Hall © Trinity 5 10 youngest medal winner) was at Trinity Hall – A Few, a film 4 starring Tom Cruise, has been made about his life. 5 C www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk 7 12 3 The University Library 6 8 Established in 1416, the ‘UL’ is one of 114 university libraries and has more than eight million items on its shelves. As a deposit library it is entitled to request a free 9 copy of every book published in the UK and Ireland. Historic treasures include Napoleon Bonaparte’s copy of © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam Montaigne’s Essais from his library in exile on St Helena and a velvet- bound sermon book belonging to Queen Elizabeth I. Constructed in Take particular care of 1931 by architect Giles Gilbert Scott, also famed for Bankside Power traffic at these locations Station (Tate Modern), the tower stands 157 feet (48 metres) tall, ten feet taller than the peak of King's College Chapel. *Estimated, based on 60kg female walking at medium pace. www.lib.cam.ac.uk Continued>

16 17 4 The Stephen Hawking Building 10 Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - FREE The beautiful new building at 5 West Road is named after Gonville and Caius Reopening in May 2012, the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and most celebrated living Fellow, Professor Stephen Hawking (an alumnus of Anthropology offers a feast of images and ideas. It houses world-class collections of Trinity Hall). Professor Hawking lived in a Victorian villa on the same site for a Oceanic, Asian, African and native American art - canoes, sculptures, masks, and number of years, where he raised his family and wrote his famed bestseller A textiles - and major archaeological discoveries, ranging from the earliest stone tools, Brief History of Time. www.hawking.org.uk discovered by Louis Leakey in Olduvai Gorge, to British finds from Roman and medieval periods. Open Tuesday - Saturday 10:30am - 4:30pm Admission Free © Cambridge University/Robin Grierson 5 Queens’ College www.maa.cam.ac.uk

Queens’ was founded by two Queens of England: first in 1448 by © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam Margaret wife of King Henry VI, then refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth 11 Emmanuel College wife of King Edward IV. It’s two halves are joined across the River Cam Founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay on the site of a former priory of the by the famous Mathematical Bridge, built in 1749 and rebuilt in 1866 Dominican Order, the College has its own outdoor swimming pool within the and 1905. Alumni include Stephen Fry, Simon Bird, actor in the comedy grounds and has produced 13 Olympians in sports ranging from lacrosse to series The Inbetweeners and Michael Foale, the first Briton to perform a © University of Cambridge long jump, fencing, football and hockey (see page 33). Alumni include John space walk. The College has produced four Olympians in rowing, skiing Harvard (1607 - 1638) founder of the US University that bears his name and and football (see page 35). Thomas Young, who watching the crisscross pattern of ripples made by www.queens.cam.ac.uk © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam swans on the College pond was inspired to invent the wave-theory of light. www.emma.cam.ac.uk 6 The Mill and Laundress Green Laundress Green is so-called because it was once used by University 12 Downing College washerwomen, who spread out their washing to dry on the grass. It is a Founded in 1800 through a bequest made by Sir George Downing, it is home to © JPD Williams very popular gathering place for picnickers and drinkers from the nearby a lively and diverse scholarly community, including about 420 undergraduates, pubs. Punts can be hired for taking on the river. 220 graduates and 53 fellows, supported by over 130 staff. The College boasts eight Olympians (see page 33). Peter Hildreth, a former Olympic hurdler was 7 Pembroke College featured in Daily Mail after being banned from a department store for running up the down escalator (aged 80) - his preferred choice of training.

Pembroke College, founded in 1347 by Marie de St Pol, Countess of © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam www.dow.cam.ac.uk Pembroke, is the third oldest of the Cambridge colleges and the first to have its own Chapel. Pembroke is medium-sized by Cambridge 13 Parker’s Piece standards, with approximately 70 Fellows, 442 undergraduates and During the 19th century, Parker’s Piece became the centre of University of Cambridge sports and about 260 graduate students. The College boasts 14 former was the site of numerous Varsity matches with Oxford. Formally a cricket ground, Parker's Piece Olympians including rower Kieran West who took Gold in Sydney has a special place in the history of modern football games, as it was here that the Cambridge (2000) in the Men’s Eight and rower Cath Bishop who took Silver in Rules of 1848 were first put into practice. © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam Athens (2004) in the Women’s Coxless Pair – see page 35. www.pem.cam.ac.uk 14 Anglia Ruskin University With around 30,000 students and 1,000 academic staff, Anglia Ruskin is one 8 Peterhouse of the largest universities in the East of England. The University offers a wide Founded in 1284 by the Bishop of Ely, Peterhouse is the oldest and smallest range of degrees relating to sport, including sport science, sports coaching and of the constituent colleges in the University of Cambridge. With 45 Fellows, sports journalism. Current Olympic hopefuls include James Shane (athletics) 260 undergraduates and 110 graduate students the College also boasts four © Anglia Ruskin University and Danny Williams (Judo). For a full list of Olympians see page 33. scientific Nobel Laureates. Electric light was brought to the College second www.anglia.ac.uk

© JPD Williams only to the Houses of Parliament, to mark Peterhouse’s 600th anniversary in Christ’s College 1884. For a list of Olympians see page 35. 15 Christ’s is a small and friendly College with an emphasis on academic excellence and www.pet.cam.ac.uk a wide range of extra-curricular activities. The College (formerly established as God’s House in 1487) was re-founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort in 1505. 9 Fitzwilliam Museum - FREE Famous alumni include John Milton, Charles Darwin and more recently Simon The Museum houses world-class collections of works of art and Baron Cohen (aka Ali G!). The College boasts 12 Olympians for a variety of

antiquities spanning centuries and civilisations. During 2012 it will host © JPD Williams sports including rowing, skiing and long jump (see page 31). Rower Kieran the largest and most remarkable exhibition of over 350 ancient royal West MBE is one of their best known contemporary Olympians. The College’s treasures ever to travel outside China. More details on page 30. Old Library will be holding an exhibition of sports in College this summer. www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk www.christs.cam.ac.uk © University of Cambridge/Sir Cam 18 19 from page 22 15 see page 23 C

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*Estimated, based on 60kg female walking at medium pace. Black Route 11.7 miles (27,060 steps, 1081 calories*) The longest of the walks, the Black Route takes in some of the more outlying areas of Cambridge. For visitors to Cambridge by car it offers a convenient starting point at Lammas Land car park. It includes some Continued> delightful semi-rural stretches and a good section following the River Cam, and passes Route notes some lesser-known sites such as one of the country’s few surviving Real Tennis courts A Take the footpath immediately left of the car park entrance, cross the footbridge then bear half left to and Cambridge’s cold war nuclear bunker! reach the Canoe Club, then right following the River Cam to cross it by a second footbridge.

20 21 B Cross Trumpington Road and then Brooklands Avenue using the pedestrian crossings. Almost immediately turn diagonally right down a path off Brooklands Avenue, entrance between low railings. 1 Lammas Land and Cambridge C At the end of Hemingford Road continue into the park. After 60m turn left towards Ross Street. Canoe Club D Cross Coldham’s Lane at the crossing point. Take the tarmac path opposite and go under the railway. Lammas Land Park sits beside the River Cam and contains an excellent children's playground and expanse of open space. There is a free car park E Cross Newmarket Road at the pedestrian crossing and turn left, passing the Leper Chapel (see page at the south east end of the park close to the river. For more information 31) then right into Garlic Row. At the end, bear right, pass through the red and white barrier onto the about parks and open spaces in Cambridge see www.cambridge.gov.uk common, and take the right fork path to cross the River Cam on the footbridge ahead. To visit the Museum of Technology (see page 31) take a short detour following the river westward (left). © Cambridge City Council Cambridge Canoe Club based on the river caters for both recreational and competitive paddlers. F Follow Marine Way to pass under the main road bridge. www.cambridgecanoeclub.org.uk G Turn right into the Shire Hall car park and climb the Castle Mound for a great view. H Turn right onto a footpath (look for a wooden bollard with two red stripes). Continued> J Turn right onto a footpath, opposite ‘The Lawns’. On reaching JJ Thompson Avenue turn left. K At the end of JJ Thompson Avenue continue straight on. When you have passed the buildings and reach open fields turn left on the footpath. L At the end of Grantchester Road continue straight on. After 25m follow the road round to the left, then after 20m go right through a wooden gate onto a footpath (signed Paradise nature E reserve). 7

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see page 20 14 from page 21 22 23 2 The Nuclear Bunker 9 Centre for Mathematical Sciences Just after the allotments have finished, across Vicar’s Brook and Occupied by the Faculty of Mathematics, the Isaac Newton Institute, and the Betty and Gordon covered in ivy is Cambridge’s Nuclear Bunker. Built in the 1950's to Moore Library, this award winning development was designed by Edward Cullinen Architects and serve as a war room for the Regional Seat of Government, it would comprises six pavilions, a double pavilion, a gatehouse and a library. “The profile of these joyous have been used if war broke out again and Britain came under attack buildings will make you smile” The Guardian, 2003. from atomic bombs. In 2003 it was listed to save the building from © JPD Williams www.cms.cam.ac.uk demolition. It is currently being used as document store. 10 West Cambridge Site 3 Homerton College The West Cambridge Site has been designed to accommodate new and relocating departments and private research institutions to alleviate the centre of The College is famous for training teachers for over 150 years. Since becoming the City from overcrowding. Noticeable buildings include the British Antarctic the 31st Cambridge College in 2007, Homerton has offered most of the Survey (1976), The William Gates Building (2001) and the Hauser Forum (2010). academic subjects studied in the University of Cambridge. It also takes pride in Phase 1 of the University sports centre is also to be built on the site by 2013.

establishing Leyton Orient Football Club (circa. 1881), through members of the © Cambridge University/Sir Cam © Homerton College cricket club who played football to stay fit during the winter months. 11 Wilberforce Road Sports Ground www.homerton.cam.ac.uk The Sports Ground is home to Cambridge University Athletic Club, one of the oldest athletic clubs in the world, established in 1857, and run 4 Cambridge United Football Club entirely by students. The Club has many Olympic Champions and 100 years old this year, the Football Club identified by their amber and black strip is currently former world record holders in its hall of fame. The story of one such playing in the Conference National, the fifth tier of the English league system. The Club has a

man’s time at Cambridge was immortalised in the 1981 film Chariots of © Simon Cornish number of enthusiastic supporters' groups and associations and attendances at the Abbey Stadium Fire, as Harold Abrahams struck Olympic 100m Gold. have been amongst the highest in the league. www.cuac.org.uk www.cambridge-united.co.uk 12 Real Tennis Courts 5 Cambridge University Small Bore Shooting Club Real Tennis is the king of all racquet sports, a game where subtlety and Whilst unnoticeable to passing rowers or the drivers above, the Club has use of an indoor range thought are more prized than power and fitness. It is played in an built under and within the Queen Elizabeth Way road bridge. The members shoot with a small- asymmetrical court. Membership of the Club is open to all: not just to members of the university. bore target rifle over a range of 25m, a .22 inch diameter bullet and in a prone (i.e. laying down) © Cambridge City Council position. www.curtc.net www.srcf.ucam.org/cura/cusbc/range.html 13 Robinson College Robinson is one of the newest colleges in the University of Cambridge. 6 Cambridge University Boat Club and Women’s Boat Club It was founded with a donation by the entrepreneur and philanthropist Winning the annual Boat Race against Oxford remains both Clubs’ sole constitutional objective. The Sir David Robinson and formally opened in 1981. Robinson has Men race on the Championship Course on the River Thames in London whilst the Womens boat produced a number of Olympians, including John Pritchard who has © Robinson College currently race on a 2-kilometre stretch in Henley on Thames but will be relocating to London in 2015. rowed for the UK in two Olympic Games (see page 35). www.cubc.org.uk and www.cuwbc.org www.robinson.cam.ac.uk 14 Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club 7 Jesus Green Swimming Pool Officially founded in 1872, the highlight of the season for any rugby player at Cambridge is the Within Jesus Green next to the footbridge is one of the few remaining varsity match against Oxford at Twickenham. The Grange Road site was purchased in 1896 where examples of the lidos that were built across the country in the 1920s and it is still now the home for CURUFC and more recently the women’s team in 1988.

© Cambridge City Council '30s. It opens for public bathing between May and September every year. www.curufc.com and www.cuwrfc.soc.srcf.net 15 Selwyn College 8 Castle Hill The College opened in 1882 and takes its name from George Augustus There has been a settlement on Castle Hill since Anglo Saxon times but it was Selwyn, a former student and Fellow at St John’s College and the first Bishop the Normans who built a castle on Castle Hill in 1068. If you climb to the top of New Zealand 1841-68. The College is the home to around 360 undergraduate and 130 postgraduate students, the Master and more than 60

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Cambridge. As the location of Cambridgeshire County Hall it is also © JPD Williams Fellows. The College also boasts seven former Olympians in rowing, sailing and important to recognise the many County Olympians past, present and future. athletics - for details see page 35. www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk www.sel.cam.ac.uk

24 25 Route notes A Look for the church of St Edward King & Martyr, opposite the Tourist Information Office. Go down St Accessible Route Edward’s Passage to the left of this, until it emerges on King’s Parade, then turn right. 1.2 miles B Outside Great St Mary’s Church there is a bronze three-dimensional sculptured map of Cambridge’s This shorter route is fully accessible for wheelchair users. Starting from outside the historic core with braille inscriptions. At the end of King’s Parade keep straight on into Trinity Street Tourist Information Office in the Guildhall, the route passes down King’s Parade and (crossing Market Street and Green Street there are low kerbs, but not dropped sections). Trinity Street, before heading down to the C At the end of Trinity St turn left into Bridge St (use the crossings near the Round Church if needed). river, before returning via Jesus D Just before you reach the bridge, turn right and follow the walkway next to the river. This boardwalk Green and through one of can cause vibrations – if this or the distance cause you problems retrace your route up Bridge Street. the City’s main E As you reach the open space of Jesus Green turn right onto Park Parade, following the edge of the shopping areas. Green. When you reach Portugal Street turn right. Some pavements in this area have steep cambers. F At the next junction keep straight on, following the pedestrianised street, which narrows into Portugal Place and emerges on Bridge Street. Turn left.

E G Keep straight on along Bridge Street. You will pass the Round Church, keep on this (North East) side of the Street. At the corner of Bridge Street, Jesus Lane and Sidney Street cross diagonally into the pedestrianised area. This crossing is not controlled and is busy, therefore some care is needed to cross. H Further along Sidney Street, just before the large church of Holy Trinity, turn right on Market Street to 8 return to the Market Square and the Guildhall. 7 1 The Guildhall D F Cambridge Guildhall is a listed building designed in 1939 and is the seat of government of Cambridge City Council and the tourist information office. Cambridge Arts Theatre and Cambridge Corn Exchange are nearby (see page 29). © JPD Williams 9 www.cambridge.gov.uk

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B 3 Great St Mary’s Church H There has been a church on the site since at least 1200. It 4 3 is the University Church for the University of Cambridge. For a large print guide © University of Cambridge to this route please email: 1 4 Gonville and Caius College [email protected] The College was first founded as Gonville Hall by Edmund Gonville and refounded in 1557 by John Caius as Gonville and Caius College. It is home to 500 undergraduates, 250 graduates and 110 senior academic members. 2 A Referred to as Caius (pronounced 'keys') it has produced twelve Nobel Prize winners, Harold Abrahams, the Olympic sprinter immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire and comedian Jimmy Carr. Physicist Professor Stephen Hawking is a fellow. The College also boasts over 17 Olympians (see page Take particular care of © University of Cambridge 34) and a number of hopefuls for London 2012. traffic at these locations www.cai.cam.ac.uk Continued> 26 27 Tel: 01223 503333 5 Trinity College Cultural [email protected] Trinity was founded by Henry VIII in 1546 and now has around 600 www.cambridgeartstheatre.com undergraduates, 300 graduates, and over 160 Fellows. Most of its major Highlights The Real Thing buildings date from the 16th and 17th centuries including The Wren All information is correct at time of going Tue 29 May to Sat 2 June, Library which contains many treasures, the oldest being an 8th century to print. Please contact individual venues 7.45pm (Sat matinee 2.30pm) copy of the Epistles of St Paul. Trinity has provided over 45 Olympians for admission information and ticket prices. Tom Stoppard uses a play within a

(see page 36). The ‘Great Court Run’ is a central scene in the film Chariots © University of Cambridge play to explore the complexities of of Fire and involves attempting to run around Great Court (c.370m) within Aid & Abet love, honesty and fidelity. Henry, a the length of time that it takes the College clock to strike twelve (43-44½ secs). Station Road CB1 2JW brilliant and celebrated playwright, (Green Route) has written a play about fidelity www.trin.cam.ac.uk www.aidandabet.co.uk and the complexity of love. A 6 St John’s College Open: Thur, Fri, Sat 12–7pm witty, genuinely moving and An artist run contemporary art thought-provoking play from one St John's was founded in 1511 by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King of our greatest living playwrights. space supporting regional, national Runner Charles Rowell, from the Folk Henry VII and spans the river Cam. Alumni have included the social reformer and international artists in the Ballet Black Museum’s ‘Sporting Heroes’ exhibition William Wilberforce and the poet Wordsworth. The College boasts over 30 production and presentation of Tue 12 to Wed 13 June, 7.45pm Olympians in sports from rowing to athletics, bobsleigh to hockey (see page 36). bank holidays). contemporary art across all art Cassa Pancho's Ballet Black are a www.joh.cam.ac.uk forms. For details of their Cambridge in the 1960’s

© University of Cambridge/Sir Cam company with a passion to forthcoming programme please highlight and celebrate the talents until Mon 30 August visit the website. 7 Magdalene College of black and Asian dancers from Summer kicks off with a ‘groovy’ Magdalene was originally established in 1428 as a hostel for Benedictine Arts Picturehouse around the world. They return to start as the Folk Museum student-monks, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College before Cambridge with a mixed bill of celebrates the sixties, Cambridge 38-9 St Andrew's Street CB2 3AR premieres from the latest in British being re-founded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene. Of particular (Yellow Route) style! Featuring memories from choreography talent having Cambridge residents, photographs interest is the Pepys Building which houses the famous diaries Samuel Pepys 0871 902 5720 established a huge following in its and a whole host of sixties [email protected] bequeathed to College in 1703. Magdalene has produced eight Olympians inaugural decade, where Ballet ephemera, this exhibition will have in sports including sailing, equestrianism and hurdles – for details see page 34. www.picturehouses.co.uk Black has been appointed an you swinging down memory lane. Associate Company of the Royal www.magd.cam.ac.uk © University of Cambridge/Nigel Luckhurst British Silent Film Festival Opera House. Sporting Heroes Thu 19 to Sat 22 April 23 July to 2 September 8 Jesus Green and Jesus College This year the 15th British Silent Cambridge To celebrate this year’s London Jesus Green hosts a wonderful avenue of London Plane trees and is boarded Film Festival will take place in Olympics, the Folk Museum will Cambridge, with a full programme Big Weekend by the River Cam. Next to the footbridge, is one of the few remaining be hosting an exhibition which of silent gems presented with live Fri 6 to Sun 8 July examples of the outdoor swimming pools that were built across the country in provides a unique insight into musical accompaniment from (Yellow & Green Routes) the 1920s and ‘30s. Jesus College was founded in 1496, taking over the Cambridge’s sporting past. From some of the world's leading silent buildings of a nunnery, and currently has 900 members – nearly 500 cambridgesummerinthecity.co.uk photographs and trophies to film musicians. The programme Three days of free fun and festivity unusual local past-times and © Jesus College undergraduates, 250 graduate and research students, and over 80 Fellows. will include rarely seen silent films on Parker’s Piece in the heart of games, this fun exhibition reveals The College boasts over 21 Olympians ranging from table tennis to sailing, from the BFI and other archives Cambridge, featuring The Olympic a glimpse of the city’s proud rowing to the modern pentathlon (see page 34). around the world on a wide range Torch Relay celebrations, fireworks sporting heritage. A special sport of fascinating subjects. For details www.jesus.cam.ac.uk display, live music, Cambridge’s related children’s trail will also run see www.britishsilents.co.uk/silent annual Asian Mela, Sports Zone, for the duration of this exhibition. 9 The Cambridge Union Society The Bolshoi Ballet: science workshops, outdoor The Union was founded in 1815 after a drunken brawl between several Raymonda (live broadcast) cinema screen, dance marquee, Corn Exchange smaller college debating societies. The Society is now one of the world's Sun 24 June, 4pm market stalls, bar marquee and 3 Wheeler Street CB2 3QE pop-up art gallery. oldest and most prestigious student debating societies. Honorary Theatre broadcast of Raymonda, (near Red & Accessible Routes) members include Olympians Tanni Grey-Thompson and Princess Anne. live from Moscow. With a lush, Cambridge and County 01223 357851 www.cus.org © Cambridge Union Society exotic score by Alexander [email protected] Glazunov, Raymonda tells the tale Folk Museum www.cornexchange.co.uk of a French noblewoman betro - 2-3 Castle Street CB3 0AQ Science Museum Live 10 Sidney Sussex College thed to a knight of the Crusades, (Blue & Black Routes) 29 April, 4pm; 30 April, 11am Founded in 1596 by Lady Frances Sidney Sussex, the College is home to and her attempted abduction by a 01223 355159 Experience spectacular science, 350 undergraduate students, 100 graduate students and 50 Fellows. spurned Saracen rival. [email protected] www.folkmuseum.org.uk dangerous demonstrations and Famously attended by Oliver Cromwell, his decapitated head was Cambridge Arts Theatre extraordinary experiments as

© JPD Williams bequeathed by an antiques collector in 1960 and is now resting Open: Tues–Sat 10.30am-5pm, London's world famous Science 6 St Edward's Passage CB2 3PJ Sun 2–5pm. Last admission somewhere within the grounds. For a list of Olympians see page 35. (Accessible Route) Museum returns to the stage with www.sid.cam.ac.uk 4.30pm. Mon: closed (except a spectacular live show to blow

28 29 The Frontroom Kettle’s Yard Amelia Poon: Parting is Museum of Technology The Gatehouse, 23–25 Gwydir Castle Street CB3 0AQ Such Sweet Sorrow The Old Pumping Station, Street CB1 2LG (Blue & Black Routes) Sat 28 April to Thu 3 May, Cheddars Lane, CB5 8LD (near Green Route) 01223 748100 11am – 4pm (near Black Route) Celebrated Anglo-Chinese artist, 01223 305 600 [email protected] 01223 368650 Amelia Poon's installation repres - [email protected] www.kettlesyard.co.uk www.museumoftechnology.com ents her endeavours to discover, www.frontroomcambridge.com Gallery open: Tues-Sun 1-5pm, depict and extol the beauty of Spring Bank Holiday The Frontroom presents a rolling admission free. religion as well as the natural Steaming programme of creative happenings House open: Tues-Sun, 2-4pm. from their small but perfectly ending of life. Admission is free. Sun 3 to Mon 4 June, 11am-5pm Kit Armstrong, appearing at the Corn From ‘Tomb Treasure of Han China’ at formed space in the very heart of Alfred Wallis ‘Ships & Boats’ Cambridge Storytellers The Museum of Technology take Exchange with the Berlin Philharmonic the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge. Their ‘fishbowl’ style 6 April to 8 July Sun 10 June, 8pm advantage of a Bank Holiday your mind and challenge your George Shaw's series, Twelve gallery space means installations Display of beautiful boat paintings The Cambridge Storytellers recite a weekend to fire up the boiler! can be created and viewed brain. Suitable for children aged 7 Short Walks, 2005, is drawn from by Cornish fisherman turned number of stories about lepers and Classic & Vintage years and above, for further revisited scenes of his childhood through The Frontroom’s floor to painter Alfred Wallis. outcasts. Tickets on the door. ceiling sash windows (for free). Motorbikes Day information the show please visit on the Tile Hill council estate in the Displays by Kettle's Yard Macbeth Sun 24 June, 11am-5pm www.sciencemuseum.org.uk suburbs of Coventry. Michael For further information on the Wed 18 to Sat 21 July, 8pm Landy's Nourishment, 2002, Frontroom and to find out more Associate Artists See classic bikes on display and Berlin Symphony Orchestra features life-sized images of about forthcoming exhibitions 14 July to 30 September In situ theatre’s Richard Spaul and trials bikes in action in the grounds. Thu 24 May, 7.30pm weeds, or 'treet-flowers' - the please visit the website. Matei Bejenaru, Matthew Bella Steward perform Shakespeare’s study in personal Art Exhibition by Katy Bailey Ending the Cambridge Classical overlooked and neglected Darbyshire, Lorna Macintyre and Sat 7, Sun 8, Sat 14, Sun 15, Sat Concert Season on a high note, The Guildhall and political violence and its effect vegetation of Edgelands. Jeremy Millar. 21 & Sun 22 July, 11am – 6pm one of Europe's most distinguished Market Square CB2 3QJ on the soul. Booking: Designed to Impress: Kettle’s Yard House – www.insitutheatre.co.uk Local artist displays their artworks orchestras performs a programme (Red & Accessible Routes) of Mozart and Beethoven. Their Highlights from the print Permanent Art Collection among the machines. Tea Dance Stourbridge Fair programme includes Beethoven's collection Between 1958 and 1973 Kettle's Sat 8 September, 12-4pm dramatic Egmont Overture and Until 7 October Wed 23 May, 1-4pm Yard was the home of Jim and Museum of Zoology Celebration of the historic perhaps Mozart's most popular Dance the afternoon away with Helen Ede. In the 1920s and 30s Downing Street CB2 3EJ Focusing on key objects ranging in Stourbridge Fair – stalls and piano concerto, also known as good music, good company and Jim had been a curator at the Tate (Yellow & Red Routes) date from the 15th to the 21st entertainments with a medieval Elvira Madigan. In the second half, refreshments with Leigh Murfet on Gallery in London. Thanks to his 01223 336650 centuries, this exhibition will flavour. Come at midday for the the orchestra will perform keyboard. Tickets are £2.50 on the friendships with artists and other feature a selection of some of the traditional opening of the fair or www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk Beethoven's mighty Symphony door For further information on like-minded people, over the years Fitzwilliam's most spectacular drop by through the afternoon. Open: Mon–Fri 10am – 4.45pm, Tea Dances and dates throughout No.3, a fitting end to a superb prints, and give visitors an insight he gathered a remarkable Sat 11am – 4pm the year, contact Susie Fletcher, collection, including paintings by season of classical music. into the extraordinary breadth of Mumford Theatre Admission free [email protected], Ben and Winifred Nicholson, the collection. Works by some of Anglia Ruskin University, Fitzwilliam Museum Tel: 01223 457513. Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, Beetles, Finches and the greatest Old Master East Road CB1 1PT printmakers, including Rembrandt David Jones and Joan Miro, as well Barnacles: The Zoological Trumpington Street CB2 1RB (Yellow & Green Routes) and Dürer, will hang alongside The Junction as sculptures by Henri Gaudier- collections of Charles (Yellow & Green Routes) 0845 196 2320 / 01223 352932 01223 332900 prints by later artists such as Clifton Way CB1 7GX Brzeska, Constantin Brancusi, Darwin Henry Moore and Barbara www.anglia.ac.uk/mumfordtheatre fitzmuseum- Degas, Whistler and Picasso. (near Black Route) Charles Darwin collected many Hepworth. The 44th Cambridge [email protected] The Search for Immortality: 01223 578 000 (1pm - 6pm) specimens of animals, plants, rocks [email protected] Drama Festival www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk Tomb Treasures of Han China Degrees of Synchrony: and fossils. To celebrate the www.junction.co.uk Tue 17 to Sat 21 April, 7.30pm Open: Tue–Sat 10:00 - 17:00, 5 May to 11 November Local Contemporary bicentennary of the birth of A feast of short plays! Tragedy, Charles Darwin in 2009, the Sundays & Bank Holiday Featuring over 300 priceless Hoipolloi: Stories from an Music-Makers fantasy, history, drama, comedy, museum opened a permanent Mondays: 12:00 - 17:00 treasures from the Imperial tombs Invisible Town Sun 13 May, 12noon-1pm social commentary and even exhibition showcasing these Darwin Admission free of the Han Dynasty, this major 20 April & 25 May, 8pm Investigating boundaries of Shakespeare brought to you by specimens from its collections. exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Edgelands: Prints by George In Stories from an Invisible Town, synchronisation through original adult and junior groups from in Museum will be the most Shaw and Michael Landy Hugh is sharing his memories of dance, audio-visual inventions, and around the region. important display of ancient Until 23 September his childhood in Langefni, music and performance. Chinese royal treasures ever seen Anglesey. As there are hundreds of Admission free. Lifer: A Woman of Principle 'Edgelands' has been defined as outside China. These spectacular stories to tell, he's still in the Thu 7 to Sat 9 June, 7.30pm that uncertain and overlooked discoveries will reveal the art, process of remembering them all The Leper Chapel Parole is the light at the end of the zone, neither city nor countryside, religious beliefs and daily life of and so each performance can be a Barnwell Junction, Newmarket tunnel for Melanie - sentenced to lingering on the urban edge. China over 2,000 years ago. very different experience. Road CB5 8JJ (Black Route) life imprisonment at the tender 01223 243830 age of 20, when Callaghan was at Additional places of interest – Public Art [email protected] Number 10, Carter was president Cambridge public art audit has a wide range of outdoor sited artworks, these can be viewed www.cambridgeppf.org of the USA and ELO had just begun their world tour. Suitable (together with maps) at www.cambridge.gov.uk/public/public-art-audit/citycentre.html © Cambridge University/Sir Cam Parking only in adjacent side roads for ages 15+ From the Museum of Zoology

30 31 Michaelhouse artists Circumstance will be and experimentation produced Alex O'Connell Henry Macintosh releasing apps for smartphones startlingly cutting-edge and 2008: Fencing 1912: 4x100m (Gold), 100m, 200m St. Michael's Church, University that guide you through the streets dynamic music. Six composers, Trinity Street CB2 1SU Stacie Powell Edgar Mountain of the city as if you were in a film. including the eight-year-old 2009: Diving 1920, 1924: 800m Red Accessible Olympians & ( & Routes) In June, the streets of Cambridge Mozart and the neglected Franz 01223 309147 will be filled with delicate strands Richter, were at the centre of it all, Clare College Downing College www.michaelhouse.org.uk of music as a mobile symphony and their symphonies course with Paralympians Tim Anderson Roderick Chisholm (Australia) Michaelhouse hosts a number of crosses the city. Visit the thrill of the new. Years shown are Games years. Athletes 1952: Pole vault 2008: Rowing art exhibitions throughout the www.visualisecambridge.org to represented the GB team unless otherwise Nicola Burbidge (nee Boyes) Peter Head Cambridge University year, please visit the website for find out about the secret locations. stated. We have attempted to make this list 1980: Rowing 8s (5th) 1952: Swimming Lunchtime Concerts as accurate as possible but apologise for further details. any errors or omissions. Charles van der Byl Peter Burke Hildreth Sedgwick Museum of Tue 8 & Tue 15 May, 1.10pm Ruskin Gallery 1912: Fencing 1952, 1956, 1960: 110m Hurdles Earth Sciences Mendelssohn Octet with the Anglia Ruskin University Arthur Darby Tom Middleton Anglia Ruskin University, CUCO String Ensemble and Dan Gordon 1900: Rugby (Silver) 2000: Rowing East Road CB1 1PT Downing Street CB2 3EQ Chopin Lecture Recital. Admission 2004 Paralympics: Cycling (Yellow & Red Routes) Charles Dixon Kate Panter (Mill Road/Collier Road entrance) is free. For further information Fran Williamson (01223) 333456 1908: Lawn Tennis (Bronze 1908; 1984: Rowing (Yellow & Green Routes) please visit 2004, 2008 Paralympics: Gold, Silver & Bronze 1912) [email protected] Barry Parkin 0845 271 3333 www.cums.org.uk/ensembles/lunc Swimming (Bronze & Silver 2008) Bridget Gait 1996, 2000: Sailing www.anglia.ac.uk (see A-Z > R) Open: Mon– Fri, 10am – 1pm & htime/programme.php Christ’s College 1980: Rowing Stephen Peel Open: Mon–Fri 10am – 5pm 2pm – 5pm, Sat 10am – 4pm David Jennens 1988: Rowing Admission free (enquire for Bank Holiday) Williams Art David Acfield 1968: Fencing 1952: Rowing Annabel Vernon Tangenticide Admission free 5 Dale’s Brewery, Gwydir Street Robert Kennedy 2008: Rowing (Silver) CB1 2LJ (near Green Route) Jack Ainsworth-Davis 18 April to 3 May Planet Earth 1936: High Jump Reginald ‘Rex‘ Woods 01223 311687 1920: 4x100m (Gold), 400m In this exhibition by Tom Dale and Explore the Earth and learn about Paul Klenerman 1924, 1928: Shot Put [email protected] Paul Bircher Jamie George, not only are objects the forces that shape its surface. 1948: Rowing (Silver, 8s) 1984: Fencing and images subverted in some www.williamsart.co.uk Emmanuel College Find out how the inside of the Arthur Cruttenden Alfred Mellows Open: Tue – Fri 11am–6pm; Sidney Abrahams way, but they also examine the Earth works, and how we know 1956: Athletics 1948: Rowing (Silver, 8s) potential for a frictional what the Earth is made of. Sat & Sun 11am–5pm 1912: Long Jump, 100m Nicholas English John Rinkel relationship to their origins in the Discover why earthquakes and Admission Free Alfred ‘Al’ Bellerby 2004: Rowing 1928: 4x100m, 400m everyday and popular culture. volcanoes happen, and why they 1908: Long Jump, High Jump Rolling Structures John Russell don't happen in Britain in this David Granger (USA) Morville Chote Movement in Location 1928: 1956: Rowing permanent exhibition. until 29 April Bobsleigh (Silver) 1948: Javelin 9 May to 24 May An exhibition showcasing four Michael Liebreich William Seagrove Lizzie Sykes's work focuses on the 1920, 1924: 3000m team (Indiv. Josef Klein (Czechoslovakia) West Road Concert Hall British artists whose work explores 1992: Skiing 1936: Athletics, Decathlon (11th) sequential image, producing works Silver, 1920 & 1924), 5000m 11 West Road CB3 9DP the relationship between form and Richard Oldcorn John Laybourne that are about physicality on movement which lies at the heart Charles Sergel (Yellow Route) 1964, 1968, 1972: Fencing 1956: Football screen. Sykes alters the cameras of traditional drawing. 1932: Rowing 01223 335184 Ralph Stewart Starr Stuart Morris herself; these changes to the 1924, 1928: 5000m Penelope Vincent-Sweet original function of the kit reveal www.westroad.org Loukas Morley 1980: Rowing 1968: Hockey other ways of viewing work and 1 to 13 May William Windham Mike Pinner Musical Revolutions by 1952: Rowing connecting the audience to the A diverse exhibition including Corpus Christi College 1960: Football Academy of Ancient Music production process. paintings, prints, sculptures and Dick Webster Henry Bartlett Reginald Revans Sat 28 April, 7.30pm 1936, 1948: Pole Vault 1936: Fencing Poetry, Language and Code assemblages of found and 1928: Long Jump Defining an eighteenth-century reclaimed materials. Kieran West (also Pembroke College) Reginald Crabbe 19 June to 12 July Mark Gaisford Slade ‘symphony’ is nigh-on impossible, 2000: Rowing (Gold) 1906: 800m, 1500m 1980, 1984, 1988: Fencing An exciting exhibition opening in Mythology so diverse were the uses, Henry Leeke the week of the centenary of Alan 15 to 27 May Churchill College Norman Whitley structures and sizes of these 1908: Discus, Greek Discus, Javelin, 1908: Lacrosse (Silver) Turing's birth, focusing on the works. But as well as paving the A group show by Cambridge Geoffrey Grimmett (Fellow) Shot Put intersection between art, text, artists who share a common 1976: Fencing Charles Williams way for Beethoven and Mahler, 1908: Long Jump code and science. Between 3-12 this 50-year period of confusion passion for all things mythical. July, the week the Olympic Torch Arthur de Laval Willis arrives in Cambridge, you can John Lyons: A Retrospective 1924: High Jump experience some 'games artists 29 May to 10 June Arthur ‘Bill’ Willis play' in the context of the Ruskin A master of colour and form, 1948: Athletics Reserve Windrush Award-winning artist Gallery. Part of the Visualise public Fitzwilliam College

art programme in Cambridge. whose work spans 50 years. Courtesy of A Cruttenden

© Anglia Rusking University Raymond Calverley Circumstance: Uplifting 1972: Canoeing Of Sleeping Birds 12 to 17 June Bernie Cotton (various city locations) Showcasing the shortlisted art 1972: Hockey 18 to 23 June entries to Williams Art's open James Hart From April 19, visualise associate West Road Concert Hall competition. Arthur Cruttenden (Christ’s College) Fran Williamson (Anglia Ruskin) 1972: Rowing 32 33 Peter Mather Homerton College Philip Baker (later Noel-Baker) Martin Bristow Mike Hart John ‘Roy’ Mitchell 1976: Fencing 1912: 800m, 1500m; 1920: 1500m 1936: Rowing (Silver, Coxless 4) 1972, 1976: Rowing (Silver, 1976, 1960: Sailing Clare Rustad (Canada) (Silver) Double Scull) Fiona McIntosh 2008: Football Henry Clay Wendell Mottley (Trinidad & Tobago) 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996: Fencing Adrian Cadbury 1976, 1980: Rowing (Silver 1980, 8s) Ivan Ivanovic (Yugoslavia) 1964: 400m (Silver), 4x400m Andrew Morgan Hughes Hall 1952: Rowing Theodore Collet 1936: 110m Hurdles (Bronze) 1960: Skiing Hester Goodsell, James Campbell 1928: Rowing (Bronze, Single Sculls) Bernard Redwood John ‘Mike’ Parker Daniel Pettit 2008: Rowing 1924: Pole Vault James Crowden 1908: Motor Boating (Gold, 8m 1964, 1968: 110m Hurdles 1936: Football Jesus College Christopher Holmes 1952: Rowing Class C) Leopold Partridge Pavel Svehlik 1992, 1996, 2000 Paralympics: Howard Ford Sebastian Thormann (Germany) 1924: Athletics Michael Alexander Swimming (9 Golds) 2004: Rowing 1976: Hockey 1960: Fencing (Silver, Épée) 1928: Decathalon Hugh Pritchard Kenneth Powell 2002: Winter Biathlon Martin Winbolt-Lewis Chris Baillieu Neil Forster Queens’ College 1968: 400m 4x400m 1908, 1912: 110m Hurdles 1948: Hockey 1976, 1980: Rowing (Silver 1976, Tony Butcher St Edmund’s College Sarah Winckless Philip Richardson Tony Fox Double Sculls) 1948: Rowing Malcolm Baker (USA) 2000, 2004, 2008: Rowing (Bronze 1908, 1912: Shooting (Silver 1908, 1956, 1956: Rowing Chris Barton Harold Cassels 1992: Rowing 2004, Double Scull) Military Rifle) John Hinde 1948: Rowing (Silver, 8s) 1920: Hockey (Gold) Marco Banovi´c (Croatia) Wilfred Tatham 1952, 1956: Rowing (coxed 8) Girton College Miles Bellville Fiona Hughes 1992, 1996: Rowing 1924: 110m Hurdles; 1928: 800m Annesley Kingsford John Davison 1936: Sailing (Gold, 6m) 2010: Skiing Christian Cormack 1936: Rowing 2000: Shooting David Burnford Magdalene College Gordon Wright 2004: Rowing Desmond Kingsford 1936: Rowing Lord David Burghley 1912: Football (Gold) Richard Dunn 1936: Rowing Gonville & Caius College John Campbell 1924: 110m hurdles; 1928: 110m 2000: Rowing Harold Abrahams hurdles, 400m Hurdles (Gold) Tom Livingstone-Learmonth Robinson College 1920: Rowing (Silver, 8s) Thorsten Engelmann (Germany) 1920: 100m, 200m, 4x100m, Long 1932: 110m hurdles, 400m Hurdles, 1928: 400m Hurdles John Pritchard Thomas Cree 2004: Rowing Jump; 1924: 100m (Gold), 200m, 4x400m (Silver) Douglas Lowe 1980, 1984: Rowing (Silver 1980, 8s) 1936: Rowing Matthew Parish 4x100m (Silver) Phillip Crebbin 1924, 1928: 1500m, 800m (Gold Pat Delafield 1996: Rowing William Anderson 1976: Sailing 1924 & 1928), 4x100m Selwyn College 1972: Rowing Richard Budgett Richard Phelps 1924: Ice Hockey (Bronze) Ronald Duncan Lewis Luxton Michael Delahooke 1984: Rowing (Gold, Coxed 4) 1992: Rowing Harry Askew 1988, 1992: Skiing 1932: Rowing 1956: Rowing Michael Lapage, Graham Smith 1948: Long Jump Peter Hoeltzenbein (Germany) Donald McCowen Yaping Deng (China) 1948: Rowing (Silver, 8s) 1996: Rowing Charles Atkin 1992: Rowing (Silver, Coxless Pair) 1932: Rowing 1992, 1996: Table Tennis (Gold x2 Ran Laurie Alex Story 1920: Hockey (Gold) Richard Meade Robert ‘Archie’Nisbet 1992, Gold x2 1996) 1936, 1948: Rowing (Gold 1948, 1996: Rowing Andy Baddeley 1968, 1972: Equestrian (Gold 1968; 1928: Rowing (Silver, Coxless Pair) John Duckworth (Also St John’s) Coxless Pair) Thorsten Streppelhoff (Germany) 2008: 1500m, 2000m Gold x 2 1972) John Ranking 1936: Rowing Iain Macdonald-Smith 1992, 1996: Rowing (Bronze 1992, Jeremy Barham Guy Richardson 1932: Rowing Herb Elliott (Australia) 1968, 1972, 1976: Sailing (Gold Silver 1996) 1968: Hockey 1948: Rowing (Silver, 8s) Bill Sambell 1960: 1500m (Gold) 1968, Flying Dutchman) Luke Walton Laurence Bond Jonathan Ridgeon 1932: Rowing George Fairbairn Arthur Sulley 2004: Rowing 1928: Pole Vault 1988: 110m Hurdles Peter Scott 1908: Rowing (Silver, Coxless Pair) 1928: Rowing (Silver, 8s) Marc Weber (Germany) John Fairgrieve 1996: 400m Hurdles 1936: Sailing (Bronze) Henry Goldsmith Bruce Tulloh 1996: Rowing (Silver, 8s) 1948: 200m Teddy Smouha Robin Tattersall (British Virgin Is.) 1908: Rowing (Bronze, 8s) 1960: 5000m Stuart Welch (Australia) Jamie Hamilton 1928: 4x100m (Bronze) 1984, 1992: Sailing Samantha Harvey (Brazil) George Weightman-Smith 2000, 2004: Rowing (Silver 2000, 1928: Rowing (Silver) 2004: Modern Pentathlon Murray Edwards College John Thorton 1928: 110m Hurdles Bronze 2004, 8s) Terence Higgins, 1936: 110m Hurdles Frank Jerwood Sarah Daniell (nee Hunter-Jones) 1948, 1952: 4x400m, 400m St John’s College 1908: Rowing (Bronze, 8s) 1984: Rowing Kieran West (also Christ’s College) Sidney Sussex 2000: Arthur Leighton John Lecky (Canada) Rowing (Gold) Euric Bobb (Trinidad & Tobago) Harry Almond 1920: Hockey (Gold) 1960: Rowing (Silver, 8s) Newnham College Jack Wilson 1968: 4x400m 1952: Rowing Sebastian Mayer Jack MacBryan Vic Brown 1948: Rowing (Gold, Coxless Pair) Bob Roberts (South Africa) Norman Barclay 1996, 2000: Rowing 1920: Hockey (Gold) 1972: Canoeing Peterhouse 1924: High Jump 1964, 1968: Bobsleigh Alison Mowbray Arthur Marshall Sheila Burnett Rollo Brandt 2000, 2004: Rowing (Silver, 2004, 1976: Kayaking Tom Askwith St Catharine's College 1956: Bobsleigh 1922: Athletics reserve 1932, 1936: Rowing Helen Casey 4x Scull) Vickey Dixon Chris Brasher David Maxwell 2004, 2008: Rowing Sebastian Schulte (Germany) 1988, 1992: Hockey (Bronze, 1992) Godfrey Brown 1952, 1956: 3000m Steeplechase 1972, 1976: Rowing (Silver 1976, 8s) 1936: 400m (Silver), 4x400m (Gold) Richard ‘Jim’ Clark 2004: Rowing Anna Watkins (nee Bebington) (Gold 1956) Tom Stallard Stephanie Cook 1972, 1976, 1980: Rowing Hyla 'Henry' Stallard 2008: Rowing (Silver, 8s) 2008: Rowing (Bronze, Double Scull) Gardner Cadwalader (USA) 1924: 1500m (Bronze), 800m (4th) 2000: Modern Pentathlon (Gold) Derek Day 1968: Rowing Phillip Verdon Pembroke College Brad Crombie (Canada) 1952: Hockey (Bronze) Robert Tisdall (Ireland) 1908: Rowing (Silver, Coxless Pair) Alastair Christie 1932: 400m hurdles (Gold, WR), Catherine Bishop 1996: Rowing Richard Dodds 1976, 1980: Rowing Decathalon King’s College 1996, 2000, 2004: Rowing (Silver Stefan Forster (Germany) 1984, 1988: Hockey (Bronze 1984; Nicholas Clack Gold 1988) Joshua West Henry Ashington 2004, Coxless Pair) 1996: Rowing 1952: Rowing 2004, 2008: Rowing (Silver 2008, 8s) 1912: Long Jump, Standing Long Norman Borrett James Livingston David Haig-Thomas Jump, Triple Jump 1948: Hockey (Silver) 2004: Rowing 1932: Rowing 34 35 Mark Hatton Christopher Boardman Duncan Macmillan John Cockett Hannah McLeod 2002, 2006: Luge 1936: Sailing (Gold, Mixed 6m) 1912: 200m 1952, 1956: Hockey (Bronze 1952) Ones to watch Hockey (Cambridgeshire) John Horne Peter Brandt John MacMillan Archibald Craig Ryan Monaghan (USA) 1906: Quarter Mile, Half Mile 1952: Rowing 1952: Rowing 1924, 1948: Fencing for 2012 Rowing (St Edmund's College) Robert ‘Bonzo’ Howland Harold Budd Jr (USA) Charles Miller Hugh ‘Laurie’ Doherty George Nash 1928: Shot Put 1964: Rowing (Gold) 1908: Polo (Gold) 1900, 1908: Lawn Tennis (Gold Below is a selection of some of the Rowing (St Catharine’s College) Charles Jones John Burn George Miller 1900, Doubles & Singles; Bronze athletes associated with Cambridge Jonnie Peacock City, County and Universities who 1960, 1964: Hockey 1908: Rowing (Bronze, 8s 1908: Polo (Gold) 1900, Mixed Doubles) Paralympic 100m (Cambridgeshire) hope to compete in 2012 (GB team Reginald ‘R F’ Doherty John Jones Guy Butler Stewart Morris unless otherwise stated). Louis Persent 1952: Rowing 1920, 1924: 400m (Gold 1920; 1948: Yachting (Gold) 1900, 1908: Lawn Tennis (Gold 400m (St John's College) Phyllis Agbo Matthew Juniper Bronze 1924), 4x400m (Silver 1920; Robert Morrison 1900, Doubles & Mixed Doubles; Stacie Powell Bronze 1900, Singles; Gold 1908, Heptathlon (Trinity College) 1992,1996 Paralympics: 100m, Bronze 1924) 1924: Rowing (Gold, Coxless 4) Diving (Churchill College) Doubles) Andy Baddeley 200m, 4x100m Dick Cashin (USA) Evan Noel Emma Pooley Billy Fiske (USA) 1500m (Gonville & Caius College) Charles Lloyd 1976, 1980: Rowing 1908: Rackets (Gold, Singles & Cycling (Trinity Hall) 1928, 1932: Bobsleigh (Gold 1928, Erica Bodman 1948, 1952: Rowing (Silver 1948, 8s) Oswald Carver Doubles), Jeu De Paume, Real 5-Man; Gold 1932, 4-Man) Rowing (Homerton College) Tom Ransley David Macklin 1908: Rowing (Bronze, 8s) Tennis Rowing GBR (Hughes Hall) William Gosling Rosamund Bradbury 1952: Rowing Clement Cazalet Kenneth Payne 1900: Football (Gold) Rowing (Jesus College) Geoff Roth (Canada) Alastair MacLeod 1908: Lawn Tennis (Bronze, Men’s 1932: Rowing Rowing (St Edmund’s College) Kate Grose Adam Brown 1952: Rowing Doubles) Vane Pennell 1988, 1992: Rowing Swimming (Cambridgeshire) Goldie Sayers James MacLeod Britton Chance Sr (USA) 1908: Jeu De Paume, Rackets (Gold) Javelin (Cambridgeshire) Tom James Georgie Bullen 1976, 1980: Rowing 1952: Sailing (Gold, Mixed 5.5m) Eric Walter Powell 2004, 2008: Rowing (Gold 2008, Goalball (Cambridgeshire) Silas Stafford (USA) Paul Massey Clifford Davis (South Africa) 1908: Rowing (Bronze, 8s) Rowing (Gonvile & Caius) Coxless 4) Jake Cornelius (USA) 1948, 1952: Rowing (Silver 1948, 8s) 1924: 800m Ronald Rawson Harold Kitching Rowing (Churchill College) Alex O'Connell Stuart Mayes Charles Eley 1920: Boxing (Gold, Heavyweight) Fencing (Churchill College) 1908: Rowing (Bronze, 8s) Anthony Crutchett 1960: Hockey 1924: Rowing (Gold, Coxless 4) Harold Rickett Hugh Mason Fencing (Downing College) Annie Vernon Robert Mitchell Raymond ‘Ethel’ Etherington-Smith 1932: Rowing Rowing (Downing College) 1936: Rowing Fred Gill 1936: Water Polo 1908: Rowing (Gold) Charles Robinson John Meyrick Rowing (Hughes Hall) James Shane Annamarie Phelps Charles Green (later Newton-Robinson) 1500m (Anglia Ruskin University) 1948: Rowing (Silver, 8s) Hester Goodsell 1996: Rowing 1936: Bobsleigh (Bronze, 4 Man) 1900, 1906: Fencing (Silver 1906, Emma Pooley Rowing (Hughes Hall) Louis Smith Martin Holt Épée) Guy Pooley 2008: Cycling (Silver, Individual Gymnastics (Cambridgeshire) 1908, 1912, 1920, 1928: Fencing Edward Ryle Robbie Grabarz 1992, 1996: Rowing Time Trial) Georgina Usher (Silver 1908, 1912, Foil) 1908: 400m High Jump (Cambridgeshire) Angus Scott William Smith Fencing (Gonville & Caius College) Timothy Johnston Terrence Sanders Tom James 1952: 400m Hurdles 1920: Hockey (Gold) Annie Vernon 1968: Marathon 1924: Rowing (Gold, Coxless 4) Rowing (Trinity Hall) Roger Sharpley Douglas Stuart Rowing (Downing College) Banner ‘Bush’ Carruthers- Ronald Sanderson Annie Lush 1952: Rowing 1908: Rowing (Bronze) Anna Watkins (née Bebington) Johnstone 1908: Rowing (Gold, 8s) Sailing (Emmanuel College) David Sturge Sidney Swann Rowing (Newnham College) 1908: Rowing (Gold) William Ward Peter McClelland (Canada) 1976: Rowing 1912, 1920: Rowing (Gold 1912, Danny Williams Theodore Just 1908: Sailing (Bronze, Mixed 8 Rowing (Pembroke College) Peter Ward 8s; Silver 1920, 8s) Judo (Anglia Ruskin University) 1908: 800m, 1600m Medley Relay Class) Deaglan McEachern (USA) 1936, 1948: 5000m John Taylor John Lander Michael Warriner Rowing (Hughes Hall) Harry Whittle 1952: Hockey (Bronze) 1928: Rowing (Gold, Coxless 4) 1928: Rowing (Gold, Coxless 4) 1948, 1952: 400m Hurdles Gordon Thomson Edward Leader Robert Watson Edward Worlidge 1908: Rowing (Gold, Coxless Pair; 1908: 110m Hurdles, High Jump 1908: Hammer Throw 1952: Rowing Silver, Coxless 4) Robert Yarrow Charles Leaf Tony Wilding Carl van Geysel 1936: Yachting (Gold) 1912: Tennis (Bronze, Covered 1968: Rowing 1928: High Jump Court Singles) Henry Llewellyn Neil White

Trinity College 1948, 1952: Equestrian (Bronze Edward Williams Hall Courtesy of Trinity 1948: Hockey (Silver)

Derek Allhusen 1948, Gold 1952, Team Jumping) 1908: Rowing (Bronze) © Univeristy of Cambridge David Wilman 1948: Winter Pentathalon Vivian Lockett, Max Woosnam 1964, 1968: Hockey 1968: Equestrian (team Gold, 1920: Polo (Gold) 1920, 1924: Lawn Tennis (Gold Lord John Wodehouse individual mixed Silver) McAlister Lonnon 1920, Doubles; Silver 1920, Mixed 1908, 1920: Polo (Silver 1908, Gold Arthur Anderson 1936: Rowing Doubles) 1920) 1912: 100m, 200m Cyril Mackworth-Praed Trinity Hall Edgar Baerlein 1924: Shooting (Gold, Double Wolfson College Richard Boyle, 1908, 1924: Racquets, Tennis Team; Silvers, Single & Double 1908: Rowing (Bronze, 8s) Stephanie Forrester Richard Beesly Individual) 2000: Triathlon Ralph Kilner Brown 1928: Rowing (Gold, Coxless 4) James MacNabb 1928: 400m Hurdles Edward Bevan 1924: Rowing (Gold) 1928: Rowing (Gold, Coxless 4) Emma Pooley Goldie Sayers

36 37 Great Court Run in 1927, • In 1579, following a violent University of inspiring the famous scene in brawl between townspeople Anglia Ruskin Chariots of Fire. He later won and students during a match at Gold in the 400m hurdles at the Chesterton, the Vice-Chancellor Cambridge 1928 Olympics and chaired the University of the University banned With around 30,000 students The University of Cambridge is Olympic Organising Committee students from playing ‘footeball’ (9,000 part-time) and 1,000 one of the world’s oldest for London 1948. universities and is rich in sporting, outside of College grounds. academic staff, Anglia Ruskin is 14 Cambridge students devised as well as academic, history. • • The first sporting match one of the largest universities in the definitive ‘Cambridge rules’ between Cambridge and the East of England, offering a wide Here is a snapshot of just some of of football in 1848, to put an the ways Cambridge people have Oxford took place on 4th June range of degrees relating to sport, end to the frequent disagree - 1827 – a game of cricket. including sport science, sports contributed to the Olympics and ments over regional variations. The first Boat Race took place in coaching, sports journalism, sport over the years: These rules were formally • 1829 (Oxford won) and moved equine studies and motorsport So far, there are at least 300 adopted by the Football • to its current course on the engineering. Cambridge Olympians, with Association in 1863. Thames in 1845. Staff and students are involved in 123 medallists winning 174 The Queensbury Rules of • Cambridge has held the lead in the Olympic & Paralympic Games medals, including 80 Golds. Boxing, first published in 1897, • the number of Boat Race and their legacy in many ways: 24 Cambridge students and were written by Trinity alumnus • victories since 1930, with the Former student Fran Williamson alumni are hoping to compete John Graham Chambers and • tally standing at 80-76 in the won six swimming medals at in London 2012, in athletics, sponsored by Magdalene run-up to the 2012 Race. the 2004 & 2008 Paralympics rowing, fencing, sailing, diving alumnus, The 9th Marquess of www.fran-williamson.co.uk. and cycling, and current student Queensbury. • The Varsity Cross-Channel Relay Race first took place in Principal Lecturer Dan Gordon Fiona Hughes hopes to ski in The 9th Marquess of • • 1998 and remains the only represented GB in cycling at the the 2014 Winter Olympics. Queensbury also established University swimming race 2004 Paralympics. Paul Deighton (Trinity) is the the predecessor to the Amateur • across the Channel. Chief Executive Officer of the Athletic Association of England. • James Shane, who is studying at Newnham’s Lucy Gossage won Anglia Ruskin in Chelmsford London 2012 Organising The National Ice Skating • • the 2011 Ireland Ironman 70.3. was the UK champion at Committee. Association was founded by a 1,500m (athletics) in 2011 and Nine times Paralympic Gold Trinity fellow and a Peterhouse • Cambridge alumnus Max • represented GB at the World medallist and King’s alumnus fellow, initially set up to Woosnam is frequently cited as ‘the Greatest British sportsman’. Championship in South Korea.

Chris Holmes is the LOCOG regulate fen skating. © Anglia Rusking University He chalked up a victory at He is one to watch this year. Director of Paralympic Girton alumna Lousia Lumsden • Wimbledon, won Olympic Gold Danny Williams was British Integration. brought lacrosse to Britain in • celebrate the 2012 Games. lasting legacy. A number of in tennis, achieved a 147 break No.1 in the U73kg class (judo) Dr Richard Budgett (Selwyn) is 1890, after observing the sport Shaun Smith, who graduated in events are planned for 2012. • in snooker, made a century at and is studying for a BSc in • Chief Medical Officer for 2012 in Quebec. 2011 with a BA (Hons) in In a recent event, 80 Year 8 Lord’s Cricket Ground, captained Sports Coaching (European • and chairman of the British Photography, has been pupils tackled Capoeira • Ivor Montagu (Kings) established the England football team and Judo Union) in Cambridge. He Olympic Association Medical photographing some of the (Brazilian acrobatic sport) in the International Table Tennis defeated actor Charlie Chaplin has a good chance of being Committee. Dr Cathy Speed, a world's biggest Paralympic stars Portuguese, Wing Chun Federation and served as its first at table tennis playing with a selected for the Olympics. former fellow at Hughes Hall, President for 41 years. butter knife instead of a bat. for an advertising campaign for (martial arts) in Chinese, also sits on the Committee. • Lecturer Dr Mike Callan has one of the sponsors. Handball in Spanish and been appointed International Dr Colin Roberts, current Sports Science graduate Hayley Sitting Volleyball (a • For further information see www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/olympics Federation Services Manager for • Director of Studies for Veterinary Ginn is UKA's Apprentice Coach Paralympics sport) in Judo at London 2012. Sciences at Sidney Sussex, is - Paralympic: Sprints and German. Head of Equine Drug Testing for • Our Life Sciences Department, Wheelchair Racing. Anglia Ruskin supported the GB especially those in the Sport and • 2012. Julian Samuelson (St Dr Ilaria Pappalepore, Senior Women’s Volleyball squad by Exercise Sciences Team, are • John’s/Pembroke) is also on the Lecturer in Tourism leading the arrangements for supporting Danny Williams as Veterinary Services team. Management, has researched their visits to Chelmsford in he prepares to compete. • Thomas Hewitt Jones (Gonville the Cultural Olympiads in 2011. The University gave them & Caius) wrote the music for © Univeristy of Cambridge • Third year performing arts Torino and London funded by free access to its sports facilities the 2012 Olympic Mascots student Alicia Morton has been the International Olympic and accommodation. animated film series. selected to dance in the Committee. Read the report at: Anglia Ruskin has actively Opening Ceremony. • Clare Balding (Newnham) will http://doc.rero.ch/record/22120 engaged with community • Paul Vohmann, a former Built be presenting the 2012 • Routes into Languages East, partners to promote the Environment student, has been • Olympic swimming for the BBC managed by Anglia Ruskin Olympics and its values. The working on the construction of University, has been granted the Students Union has engaged • Paul Westbury (Jesus) helped the Olympic site. design the 2012 Olympic London 2012 Inspire mark with our community team to Anglia Ruskin graduate David Stadium. • which recognises outstanding support volunteering, in Doyle was selected by the Royal projects and events helping particular Sport Makers and the Lord Burghley (Magdalene) Architects’ impression of the Cambridge Sports Centre, opening in 2013 on the • Mail to design a stamp to deliver the Olympic Games' Essex Ambassador scheme. allegedly completed the Trinity University’s West Cambridge site

38 39 Sport & recreation events in Cambridge to celebrate Olympic & Paralympic year

20 May Chance to Dance Festival Netherhall Sports Centre A taster day of dance styles, led by City dance groups and teachers. Experience tap, salsa, flamenco, ballroom, bollywood and many more. 13 June Olympic Celebration for the 50+ Chesterton Sports Centre Fun taster sports and exercise sessions for the 50+ age group. For further information visit www.forever-active.org.uk where you can also find details of weekly classes and sessions. New members welcome! 7/8 July Olympic Torch Relay Parker’s Piece The Olympic Torch will come through Cambridge this weekend. The Flame will arrive on Parker’s Piece for a Saturday evening celebration as part of ‘The Big Weekend’ before leaving the City early on Sunday morning. 13-24 Aug Parasport Programme Various venues across the City Inclusive sports programme where people can experience various paralympic sports in sessions led by local clubs and coaches. Sports including Swimming, Goalball, Archery, Sitting Volleyball and many more. 24 Aug Paralympic Torch Relay Flame Netherhall Sports Centre Celebrate the Flame’s visit by taking part in a variety of Paralympic Sports, as well as Olympic themed games and taster sessions. 28 Oct Disability Sport & Arts Festival Chesterton Sports Centre Experience a variety of Paralympic sport taster sessions led by local clubs and coaches. Families and people of all ages and disabilities welcome. More information from www.cambridge.gov.uk/sport or contact Sports & Recreation on: 01223 457532 or [email protected]

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