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All council-run leisure centres will close at 14:00 GMT on Tuesday 24 December and Tuesday 31 December. Libraries across the county will close from 13:00 on Tuesday 24 December or as usual if due ...
The Cambridgeshire Collection is a UK local government institution and part of the Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridgeshire Libraries Local Studies service.It is housed within Cambridge Central Library It collects printed, published and illustrative material relating to the modern county of Cambridgeshire, which includes the former counties of Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely.
The collection includes editions that are in the public domain. The Collection is a project of the Cambridge Room, the Archives and Special Collections of the Cambridge Public Library, and is supported by funding from the Community Preservation Act. In excess of 650,000 articles are available.
By the middle of the 14th century, the University of Cambridge owned a collection of books. These would have been kept in chests along with other valuables, rather than in a library building as would be recognised today. [5] A common university library can be traced to the beginning of the 15th century, with the first direct reference to a ...
It was originally the Cambridge home of Jim Ede and his wife Helen. [4] Moving to Cambridge in 1956, they converted four small cottages with the help of Winton Aldridge into one idiosyncratic house and a place to display Ede's collection of early 20th-century art. Ede maintained an 'open house' each afternoon, giving any visitors, particularly ...
A guided bus entering the concrete busway track. Cambridgeshire Guided Busway is the world's longest guided busway and passes through Cambridge. [3] The designated route runs on normal road from Huntingdon to St Ives, then via a bus-only guided section along the former Cambridge-St Ives railway south-east into Cambridge, where it rejoins the road at either Milton Road or Histon Road and then ...
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Wren Library seen from Nevile's Court The library's rear facade as seen from the River Cam The interior of the library, showing the limewood carvings by Grinling Gibbons Stained glass window and Lord Byron statue at Wren Library's south end Cloisters beneath Wren Library's main room The Wren Library (foreground) and University Library (background) viewed from the chapel tower at St John's College