Bibliograph

Cambridge street-names, their origins and associations, Ronald Gray and Derek Stubbings ; with illustrations by Virén Sahai

Type

Label

Cambridge street-names, their origins and associations, Ronald Gray and Derek Stubbings ; with illustrations by Virén Sahai

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cambridge street-names

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

56218219

Responsibility statement

Ronald Gray and Derek Stubbings ; with illustrations by Virén Sahai

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

their origins and associations

Summary

This book, first published in 2000, draws on the great wealth of associations of street-names in Cambridge. It is not a dictionary, but it provides a series of entries on such topics as the Reformation, George IV and his wife, twentieth-century British scientists, businessmen, Elizabethan times, medieval Cambridge, mayors, millers, and builders. It includes hermits and coal merchants, field marshals and laundresses, martyrs and bombers, unscrupulous politicians and the founder of a Christian community, Cromwell and Newton, an Anglo-Saxon queen and the discoverer of Uranus - all people who lived in or often visited Cambridge. The ancient Stourbridge fair is included, along with castles and boat-races, sewage pumps and the original Hobson of 'Hobson's Choice'. Who was St Tibb? Where did Dick Turpin hide? Where was the medieval takeaway? Unlike earlier works, this is a history of everybody for everybody.--, Provided by publisher

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