Christmas Day is a good time to photograph shop fronts with greatly reduced problems of traffic and pedestrians getting in the way. So following on from last year's efforts - see TL4657 : Christmas Day on Mill Road (1) - this year I am covering the section between the swimming pool and St Barnabas Road. Starting with the Oxfam shop and Computer Resale (repairs and second-hand sales).
Reality Checkpoint - so called because it supposedly marks the spot, halfway across Parker's Piece, where the bubble of Cambridge University ends and the "real world" of Cambridge city begins. I believe there used to be a plaque inscribed "reality checkpoint" on the lamp-post, but that is long gone and the words are now rather crudely scratched into the paintwork.