Chesterton Sewers 1899
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Chesterton Sewers 1899
Image: © Tiger Taken: 25 Jul 2020
A bit of history preserved in a drain cover at the junction of Clare Street with Hale Street (formerly Queen Street). Although just a few minutes' walk from the city centre of Cambridge, this area lay within the parish of Chesterton, named from the Roman fort north-west of the river (Latin Castra, Anglo-Saxon Ceastre), a district not absorbed into Cambridge until 1912 and which therefore had to arrange its own utilities when the surrounding streets of terraced housing were laid out from the 1880s. Most of the ironworks have subsequently been replaced by new ones labelled "Cambridge Corporation", so this example is an interesting survival.
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Image Location
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