Top gear all the way
When Ken Wilkinson of Cambridge broke the record for the fastest road trip between Auckland and Wellington in 1931, his time included stops for food, petrol, trains and mobs of sheep and cattle. No mention…
Read MoreTwo Cambridge icons: a suit of armour and Tui Carter
The suit of armour at the front entrance of the antique shop in the Veale Building represented the height of the antique trade in Cambridge in the 1970s. Behind the towering suit of armour was…
Read MoreRoland “Poly” Hill
This article was published in the First Edition of the Cambridge Historical Society Journal in October 1967. “When one considers the great wealth of history in the Cambridge district, it is regrettable that there has…
Read MoreGeorge Couper’s Journal of Sea Travel in 1852
Journal of a voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne by Geo Couper Would you choose to travel to the other side of the world on a ship reliant solely on the weather and the skill of…
Read More‘Overlord’ – D Day June 6th 1944,
An acrostic poem by Brian Dunstan, 2024 Overhead in the midnight sky, hundreds of bombers were flying high above the landing craft that bore the soldiers to an alien shore. Vital bridges to secure airborne…
Read MoreA Shortage of New Cars in Cambridge
We came across this piece of correspondence from Ford Dealer Wilkinson & Co Ltd of Cambridge to John Tunnicliff. Attached was a receipt for a £10 deposit made by Mr Tunnicliff for a Ford Anglia…
Read MoreJack Silcock – Prisoner of War, part II
In October 2023 we printed the first part of an article based on a memoir written by Jack Silcock of Cambridge. Soon after his marriage to Lola, he was serving in a medical unit in…
Read MoreThe story of Moon Creek, the water tower and the town’s first piped water
Until the building of the water tower in 1903, Cambridge was without a piped water supply. Residents had to cart water from creeks and springs, or rely on rain collection tanks for their daily needs.…
Read More“Capturing Cambridge”: An Exhibition of Reg Buckingham’s Photographs
Following on from our popular exhibition, and as part of an ongoing digitisation programme, you can view Reg Buckingham’s images on Kōtuia ngā Kete – click here. In March 2024, Cambridge Museum partnered with the…
Read MoreA Day in the Life of Museum Staff
If you were fortunate enough to see Te Papa’s exhibition Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War, featuring larger than life sculptures of WWI soldiers, you will enjoy this article. The first sculpture in the exhibition…
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