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Cambridge Fact File

Below is a collection of links which contain interesting facts about Cambridge.

1. First Traffic Lights

2. The Kite

3. First Bank

4. Mitcham's Corner

5. Doctor Who in Cambridge

6. The Grease Connection

7. Hobson's Choice

8. Big Ben Connection 

9. The City With No Cathedral 

10. How The Grafton Centre Got It's Name

11. From Bell Lane to Northampton Street

12. How Parker's Piece Got it's Name

13. Fitzroy Streets Forgotten Name  

14. The Beginning of the Cambridge Bus Service?

15. Samuel Pepys and the Central Hotel

16. Lord Byron's Bear

17.Cambridge Railway Station 

18 First Cambridge Newspapers

19. The Eagle and the Secret of Life

20. The Civic Restaurant 

21. The First Cobbled Street in Cambridge

22. King Street and The Wall 

23. The Cambridge Buses Cruise Ship Connection

24. First Fire Precautions in Cambridge 

25. Cambridge's First Shopping Arcade 

26. William the Conqueror and Cambridge Castle

27. How Mill Road Got It's Name

28. Cambridge's Oldest College 

29. Jimi Hendrix in Cambridge

30. The Tivoli


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