ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
September 2018 The first Dinky Doors land in our city! Three mini art installations appear around Cambridge on 27 September, installed secretly by their mysterious creators. Now there are 15 in total, spread across our city to surprise and delight passers-by.
March 2016 Cambridge University Library turns 600! First mentioned in
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two wills from March 1416, it now holds around ten million items! An extraordinary 130 miles of shelving carry its treasures, shared across its main site in central Cambridge and new purpose-built facility near Ely.
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June 2019 The first large-scale Cambridge Pride event is held on Jesus Green, with the UK’s first Pride river parade seeing a flotilla of rainbow-coloured punts proudly float down the River Cam, despite a downpour.
April 2017 After years of cycling his wares around, Jack van Praag opens a store on Bene’t Street to serve his frozen treats to ice-cream lovers. Jack’s Gelato now has two sites in Cambridge, supplies gelato to numerous eateries and establishments, and is a much-loved fixture of the city’s food scene.
July 2017 Eddington is born! The first
residents move into this dynamic suburb of the city, part-funded by the university and named for astrophysicist Sir Arthur Eddington who lived and worked nearby. Hungry residents had to wait a few months for Sainsbury’s to arrive.
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