Fitzwilliam Lions My Ca User Guide www.creatingmycambridge.com G The Fitzwilliam Museum was g mb tin r founded thanks to Richard, VII a id e g r This walking trail will lead you from Morley Memorial Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, who e WALKING HISTORY TRAIL OF donated his library and collection of C School along into the Market art to the University in 1816, along c - FROM MORLEY r place in the heart of Cambridge, exploring the with £100,000 to construct a building e m a o to house them in. His aim was for t c important stories along the way including the coming MEMORIAL SCHOOL TO in . the museum of increase learning and g e of the railway, the botanic garden, old Addenbrooke's m idg MARKET SQUARE knowledge and be free for everyone to enjoy. However, ycambr Hospital, and give you insights into the story of the first stone wasn’t actually laid until 1837. The dramatic stone lions were sculpted a few years later, Hobson's Conduit bringing fresh water to Cambridge, by William Grinsell Nicholl in 1839 and can be seen ABOUT CREATING MY CAMBRIDGE the Market Square fire and much more! today guarding the entrance outside the museum. The poet Michael Rosen has composed a poem called 'The 'Creating My Cambridge' is a public art project led Michael Rosen has composed poems about Listening Lions'! which you can hear on our website. by Professor Helen Weinstein to share historical sources about Cambridge's people and places, past Cambridge people and places pinned to the history H Unsung Women and present. It uses histories to inspire creativity and trail which Historyworks has recorded with some new cultures of belonging. The aim is to give voice to school songs performed by local primary children to entertain In 1897 the Victorian women pupils, singers, musicians, poets, rappers, storytellers, of the got you on your journey. The trail lasts approximately 90 filmmakers and composers. Historyworks is working rather fed up with not being allowed to minutes. To find further trails and an electronic copy with top poets like Michael Rosen & witty lyricists like graduate like their male classmates. of this leaflet please go to: Therefore on 21st May 1897 they CBBC's Horrible Histories song writer, Dave Cohen. rallied together to bring about an Historyworks organizes workshops and events for http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails/ official vote on the matter. However nearly three times people to get creative. Do use these resources and as many men voted against them as for them and contribute subjects and creative pieces. We will be The Audio Trail women were not awarded degrees at Cambridge until tagging artworks to the topics in the trails. To find 1948. The men made fun of the protesting women and further trails, please go to: Audio Trail downloadable in MP3 format available on hung an effigy of the woman on the bike at top of market http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails/ the web at: www.audioboom.fm/historyworks place. Eglantyne Jebb, a campaigner for women’s rights and social reform, campaigned for better living © Historyworks 2017. conditions in Cambridge, and we’ve written a song ABOUT HISTORYWORKS about her amazing work. This trail & accompanying audio have been devised Historyworks delivers top quality media products for and produced by Helen Weinstein, to whom all The Fire of 1849 in museums, galleries, archives, libraries, community suggestions for revisions should be directed I groups, academics, schools, colleges, universities, ([email protected]). Market Square radio and television companies. On the night of Saturday 15th September 1849 there was a huge Narration of the trails by Michael Rosen. Michael blaze which came to be known Historyworks supports the practice and theory of Public Rosen is a poet, novelist, broadcaster, famous for his as the Great Fire of Cambridge History and Public Art in the UK by promoting education poems like 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt', 'Chocolate Market. It started in a textile shop programames and partnerships. Historyworks bridges Cake', and for this project his poems include 'The but became out of control once a chemist caught fire, the gap between knowledge and public engagement Fitzwilliam Lions' and 'Coldham's Common'. because the chemicals for the medicines blew up like with creativity and impact. Photos from the Cambridgeshire Collection, the a firework display! The townspeople tried to put out the National Railway Museum and Historyworks. fire with buckets from Hobson's fountain, but the key Historyworks produces made-to-measure documentary was missing, so water had to be brought up from the films, radio programmes, podcasts, vodcasts, stills, River Cam behind King's Chapel in a long human chain My Ca sound installations, websites, apps, radio and tv g mb tin r a id which took too much time. All the old timber structures e g r e tasters and show reels. To get in touch with our team C

c of the market area were destroyed, which is why you r e m email us at [email protected] a o ti .c n e see stone and brick buildings by the market today. gm dg ycambri A Morley Memorial - D Botanic Garden Victorian School The original Cambridge University Botanic Garden Morley Memorial School was founded was not on the current site, but in the Victorian Era. It is one of the were established in the centre of oldest schools in Cambridge. The town between 1760-63 where the school opened on 15th January 1900 now stands. with 40 children attending. It was The original site was only about 5 formed as a training school for the acres, so in 1831 Professor Henslow, Charles Darwin’s Homerton Teacher Training College and named after mentor decided that a larger garden was needed and Samuel Morley, who was a sponsor of the College arranged for over 40 acres of land to be purchased on and also a member of the Congregational Board of the new site on . The new garden Education. in 1900 Blinco Grove was merely a track, was opened in 1846 for members of the public to also leading to a farmhouse at 132 Blinco Grove, with enjoy and can still be visited today. farmland and orchards surrounding it. Cattle Market E Hobson's Fountain B The Cattle Market moved to the In Tudor times, Cambridge site where Cambridge Leisure was a very smelly place, with Park now stands in the 1890s, having toilets being emptied into the river, previously been situated on Castle and dirty water spreading diseases! Hill. It was seen as the finest cattle To help clean up the city, a local market in East Anglia and hosted the man called Thomas Hobson made popular Easter Bank Holiday Market a substantial donation to build a for the region. The pens at the market could hold 700 waterway to bring fresh water from the countryside. It bulls and 2000 pigs or sheep, so it was extremely noisy was named Hobson’s Conduit, and you can still see and smelly! Hundreds of cattle would be transported by a small section of it, running in ditches on either side train and ship to the market from Scotland and Ireland, of Trumpington Street. A fountain was built in Market every week. The site closed in 1976, when the city Square in 1614 at the end of Hobson’s Conduit, to bring council decided to develop the area to create an arts clean drinking water to Cambridge people. It was moved centre, the Cambridge Junction; and leisure facilities for to the corner of Lensfield Road after the fire of 1849. local people, such as a cinema and a bowling alley. Coming of the The Old Hospital C F Addenbrooke’s Hospital was Railway originally located on the site The first successful railway of the University's Judge Business locomotive train ran in 1804 and School on Trumpington Street. It Stephenson’s Rocket was designed was founded following a generous in 1829. Railways then started to gift of £4,500, which was left by expand across the UK. Eventually John Addenbrooke in his will to the railway reached Cambridge during the Victorian found a voluntary hospital for the poor people in the Era, in July 1845. When Cambridge station opened local area. On 13th October 1766, Addenbrooke’s the first trains travelled to London and Norwich. The Hospital opened with 20 beds, 3 surgeons, 3 old Great Eastern route to Cambridge had some of physicians, 1 matron and a resident apothecary, who the fastest trains on it- with a train recorded going made and dispensed medicines. This early hospital at 70mph! The Victorian design of the station was was important for medical research and Cambridge mainly the inspiration of architect Francis Thompson residents but you had to pay for treatment. It was not and was extremely grand in comparison to other until 1948 that healthcare became free with the forming stations on the route, with its arches and columns. of the Natioanl Health Service (NHS).