Cambridge Fact File: Jimi Hendrix in Cambridge

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed in Cambridge at the Dorothy Ballroom on the 15th February 1967.

Cambridge Fact File: Cambridge's Oldest College

Peterhouse in the 1920s

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Peterhouse is the oldest college in Cambridge and it was established in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely.

The college was named after Peter the apostle.

Cambridge Fact File: How Mill Road Got It's Name

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The area where Mill Road now stands was once nothing but open fields and the only noted landmark was a windmill which stood roughly opposite Emery Street. It was from that windmill Mill Road got it's name.

Cambridge Fact File: William the Conqueror and Cambridge Castle

William the Conqueror

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William the Conqueror visited Cambridge, or Grantabridge as it was known in 1068 and ordered one of three castles across the East of England to be built there in the aftermath of his northern campaign to capture York.

It was decided because Cambridge was on one of the old Roman routes from London to York and could prove to be strategically significant and at the risk of rebellion.

The Cambridge Evacuee's

Evacuee's arriving in September 1939

In September 1939 Cambridge came home to around 3,000 children evacuee's sent from places which included London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds.

It was decide due to the risk of air raids on the larger cities that children and the sick would be safer in smaller towns and villages.

After arriving in Cambridge it was soon discovered that not all the evacuee's were happy to be here with some calling it a dull and dismal place and finding the families they were staying with far to posh compared to their own cockney parents.

It was also discovered many started to miss their families and could not adjust to life in Cambridge and it is believed within 3 months of arriving almost half returned home to face the Blitz with their families rather than stay any longer in Cambridge.

These articles may also be of interest: The Bombing of Vicarage Terrace  
                                                            World War 2 Air Attacks on Cambridge 1940-1942