Nine-thirty on a bright February morning after a frosty night - and the motionless pigeons roosting high in the tall tree in the centre were showing no inclination to be up and about.
This grassy triangle at the corner of Tenison and Lyndewode Roads was once home to a cannon, a relic from the Boer War, and was known as Cannon's Green.
The gun was removed in 1940 for war scrap. BBC Radiio Cambridgeshire reported on 5 January 2017 that a campaign had been set up to replace it with a replica (or even to restore the original if it had managed to escape melting down).