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Photocopies of documents and captions used for an exhibition relating to the premises of the Cambridge Philosophical Society [probably for the sesquicentenary celebrations in 1969], 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0279/CPS 11/3/2/7

Scope and Contents

File contains:
Various pages of A E Shipley, ‘ ‘J’: a Memoir of John Willis Clark’, 1913, touching on his involvement with the Society and the University of Cambridge, particularly the Museum of Zoology;
p. 54 of ‘Cambridge Revisited’, mentioning the Society’s use of rooms over Bulstrode’s shop in Sidney Street from 1820 to 1833;
Colour snap of former Society building in All Saints Passage, as used by the University of Cambridge Hawks Club as at September 1965;
View of Bene’t Street from the Arts School, August 1967, by Ray Hoile [? Hoilen?];
Sketch plan of ‘The Museums on the site of the old Botanic Garden 1873’ (adapted from A E Shipley, ‘J - - - ‘ as above), showing, inter alia, the Perse School on Free School Lane;
‘Plan of Mr C Bulstrode’s premises 1854’ (stamped University Library Cambridge) on the corner of Bridge Street and All Saints Passage, also showing the Society’s building on All Saints Passage;
‘Plan of Site and Buildings for Museums of Natural Science’, circa 1885?; also notes location of other previous features / use / ownership of the area, including the course of the King’s Ditch, the estate of E J Mortlock; and the garden of the Augustinian Friars;
Pages 160-161 of an unspecified publication with an illustration of the Chemical Laboratory from Downing Street, looking west and showing, in the foreground, the gate by which the Botanic Garden was originally entered;
Site plan of ‘The Museums in 1873’, from A E Shipley, ‘J - - - ‘ as above;
Site plan of ‘The Laboratories in 1912’ (New Museums site, again adapted from A E Shipley);
‘Plan of Properties in Cambridge, 1850, showing Mr C Bulstrode’s property on the corner of All Saints Passage and Bridge Street facing the entrance to Jesus Lane;
Two page ‘Site plan of the New Examination Rooms and Lecture Rooms Showing Foundations etc of old [Augustinian] Friary discovered during Recent Excavations’ (from Cambridge Antiquarian Society’s Communication XIV) [circa 1900?];
‘Plan showing Bulstrode’s Shop (1820) and the Society’s House (1832) in Relation to Present Day Buildings’ [no date but All Saints Church is marked].
Most papers in the file have a pencil number: relates to its use in an exhibition?













Dates

  • Creation: 1969

Extent

1 file(s) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Date information

DateText: [Copies probably made in 1969].

Originator(s)

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Finding aid date

2015-05-14 13:25:10+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Repository

Contact:
CPS Archivist, Joan Bullock-Anderson
c/o Sedgwick Museum Archives, A G Brighton Building
Madingley Rise
Cambridge CB3 0UD