En dansker besøger Cambridge – oplev universitetet, kollegier, kapeller, kirker og museer og bådtur på floden Cam.
Text and photos Erik K Abrahamsen.
King´s College and King´s Chapel, Cambridge built 1441 and 1446 by King Henry 6:
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After 3 days holiday in London I travelled by train 80 km north to Cambridge to visit my stepson Jonas and his girlfriend Katharina. They both work in Cambridge – she as an environmental legal specialist and he as a nature conservation scientist at Cambridge University. They have lived 3 years in Cambridge and it is my first visit in their home.
In morning on friday 20 april I walk alone around in the city to experience its atmosphere this “summer day” with 25 degrees. Cambridge is today a city with 125.000 inhabitants and 25.000 students at Cambridge University with 21 faculties and 50 institutions. The university was founded around 1200 and in the following centuries teachers and students were organized in more than 31 different colleges:
Peterhouse (1284), Clare (1226/38), Pembroke (1347), Gonville and Caius (1348/1557), Trinity Hall (1350), Corpus Christi (1352), King´s (1441/1446), Queens (1446), St. Catharine´s (1473), Jesus College (1496), St. John (1511), Trinity (1546) etc.
Every college had its own bedrooms, dining hall, kitchen, study rooms, library, chapel and garden. Every student staying on the colleges have 2 senior personal student advisers at the college to help them with their studying and personal life.
My son and his girlfriend live close to Mill Road and Cambridge railway station – only 2 km from center of Cambridge. Therefore I decided to walk to the city and pass this street with typical english 2 floor houses:
Side road to Mill Road, Cambridge:
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– and this excellent big green area “Parker´s Piece“ with a lot of sporting activities:
Parker´s Piece:
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Map of Cambridge:
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In Kings Parade and Trinity Street I pass beside St. Botolph´s Church and the entrances of St. Catharine´s College, King´s College and Gonville and Caius College:
St. Botolph´s Church:
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St. Catharine´s College:
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King´s College and King´s Chapel:
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King´s College and King´s Chapel:
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In Trinity Street and John´s Street –
Gonville and Caius College, Trinity College, St John College and St. John Chapel.
Gonville and Caius College – inside the courtyard:
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Gonville and Caius College – inside the garden:
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Trinity College in St. John Street:
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St. John College:
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St. John Chapel:
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St. Clement Church in Bridge Street:
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St. Clement Church in Bridge Street:
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My stepson has invited me to lunch in Pembroke College.
Before I met him I decided to visit Archaeology & Anthropology Museum in Downing Street.
Students enjoy lunch in garden of Archaeology & Anthropology Museum in Downing Street:
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Archaeology & Anthropology Museum:
Plate: “Finding Roman Cambridge”.
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Archaeology & Anthropology Museum:
Plate: “Danelaw, East Anglia”.
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Links: “Danelaw (Danelagen), East Anglia”.
I and my stepson eat lunch in Dining Room of Pembroke College.
Religious reformer Nicholas Ridley was elected as a fellow in Pembroke College 1524 and became Pembroke´s Master in 1540.
View to Dining Room at Pembroke College founded 1347:
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Pembroke College founded 1347 – view to courtyard, garden and United Reformed Church:
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Pembroke College – Chapel and courtyard and garden:
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Pembroke College:
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After lunch we walked to River Cam to relax.
River Cam – view to The Mill:
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River Cam – view to Darwin College founded 1964:
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Next day saterday 21. april 2018 is another “summer day” with more than 25 degrees celsius and the sun shinning from a blue sky. My stepson and his girlfriend invite me to a River Cam trip on a flat boat.
Before meeting on Darwin College I visit Sedgwick Museum in Downing Street.
Sedgwick Museum of Geology and Earth Sciences:
Entrance.
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Skeleton of Dinosaur – Sedgwick Museum of Geology and Earth Sciences:
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Plate – Sedgwick Museum of Geology and Earth Sciences:
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River Cam at The Mill:
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My stepson has his social base in Darwin College. Thats why he has free admission to lend a flat boat for 5 persons.
How to go punting?
By punting with a 5 m long bar on bottom of the 1-2 m deep River Cam by standing on back of the flat boat – punting.
Jonas and Katharina at River Cam:
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View to River Cam and Mathematical Bridge at Queen´s College:
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On our flat boat on River Cam view to Mathematical Bridge:
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View from our flat boat on River Cam:
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View from our flat boat on River Cam:
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View to College from our flat boat on River Cam:
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View from our flat boat on River Cam:
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View from our flat boat on River Cam to D-Day 1944 planning group meeting place building:
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View from our flat boat on River Cam:
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Katharina enjoying our punting experience on River Cam:
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AView from our flat boat on River Cam:
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After finished our boat trip on River Cam we passed across Mathematical Bridge to Queen´s College.
Queen´s College – St. Berhard College refounded as Queen´s College 1448:
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Queen´s College – dining room:
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Queen´s College – Entrance on National Day, St. George Day 21. april 2018:
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King´s College and Chapel´s entrance – Garden as neighbour to River Cam:
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River Cam as neighbour to garden of King´s College and Chapel:
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I will close my article of my 4 days visit to Cambridge with this 2 photos of King´s Chapel:
King´s Chapel – founded 1446 by King Henry 6:
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King´s College and Chapel founded 1441 and 1446 by King Henry 6:
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On sunday 22. april we decided to visit The Orchard Tea Garden near Grantchester on a walk alongside River Cam south of Cambridge.
From Mill Road we walk through streets with typical english 2 floors houses to River Cam as neighbor to Botanical Garden:
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River Cam between Cambridge and Grantchester – spring 2018:
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Grantchester – view to St. Andrew and St. Mary Church built around 1200 A. C.:
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Grantchester – view to St. Andrew and St. Mary Church built around 1200 A. C.:
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Grantchester – view to St. Andrew and St. Mary Church built around 1200 A. C.:
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Thatched house in Grantchester:
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River Cam at Grantchester – walk path fra Grantchester alongside River Cam to The Orchard Tea Garden, spring 2018:
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The Orchard Tea Garden – view to restaurant and the orchard:
The Orchard is a tea rom and garden near Grantchester 7 km south of Cambridge.
The Orchard became popular since 1897, when students of Cambridge University were allowed of the orchard owner to enjoy their tea in the orchard in their spare time.
Later in 1909 it became famous, when writer and poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), The Old Vicarage, Grantchester (Poem 1912) invited writers, painters and scientists to join fellowship with him in The Grantchester Group:
Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Augustus John, and Ludwig Wittgenstein
Writer and poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/brooke_rupert.shtml
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/rupert-brooke
Since 1900 locals and tourists have enjoyed – together with students from Cambridge University visiting The Orchard – the relaxed atmosphere and to eat and drink tea. The Orchard restaurant is open all year around.
The Orchard Tea Garden:
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Plate:
“The Grantchester Group” of entrance to The Orchard Tea Garden:
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Plate: “The Grantchester Group – Later in life ” of entrance to The Orchard Tea Garden:
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The Orchard Tea Garden – spring 2018:
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Jonas and Katharina enjoying our lunch in The Orchard Tea Garden – spring 2018:
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Cambridge University and School of Cambridge´s influence on philosophy- and economic thinking:
Analytic philosophy:
G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell (Logic atomism), Wittgenstein (Logic positivism).
Mathematical logic: Donald Davidson, Michael Dummett, Saul Kripke.
Economic science:
Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Piero Sraffa, Joan Robinsom.
I hope you have enjoyed my experiences on my 4 days visit to Cambridge.
I spent an excellent time with my family – full of joy, love, fun and humor in the first “summer days” in all England with more than 25 degrees celsius.
Links:
The Bloomsbury group – a circle of artists, writers and intellectuals from period 1910 to after second World War 1939-45 and an important connection between Cambridge University and King´s College London .https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bloomsbury-group
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/b/bloomsbury/lifestyle-lives-and-legacy-bloomsbury-group
“Danelaw (Danelagen), East Anglia”.
The Orchard Tea Garden:
Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Augustus John, and Ludwig Wittgenstein
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/brooke_rupert.shtml
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/rupert-brooke
Text and photos Copyright Erik K Abrahamsen
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Enjoy life – be happy!
Melby, North Sealand, Denmark the 13. june 2018
Best wishes
Erik