2016

TL4558 : New Museums Site, Downing Street

taken 10 years ago, near to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

New Museums Site, Downing Street
New Museums Site, Downing Street
New Museums Site, University of Cambridge

The New Museums Site is a major site of the University of Cambridge, located in the centre of the city, on Pembroke Street and Free School Lane, sandwiched between Corpus Christi College, Pembroke College and Lion Yard. The smaller and older of two university city-centre science sites (the other is the Downing Site), the New Museums Site houses many of the university's science departments, lecture halls and examination rooms, as well as two museums.
Formerly the site of the university Botanic Garden (which is now between Hills Road and Trumpington Road in the south of the city), the New Museums Site is an eclectic mixture of grand Victorian buildings erected between 1870 and 1909, such as the Old Cavendish Laboratory; yellow-brick buildings from the 1930–40s, largely utilitarian with the exception of the Mond Building; and modernist glass-and-concrete buildings dating from the 1970s, such as the Materials Science and Metallurgy tower.


Downing Street

Downing Street is a street in central Cambridge. It runs between Pembroke Street and Tennis Court Road at the western end and a T-junction with St Andrew's Street at the eastern end. Corn Exchange Street and St Tibbs Row lead off to the north. Downing Place leads off to the south.
To the north at the western end is the New Museums Site of the University of Cambridge. To the south is the Downing Site of the University. Many of the University's departments are located here.
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TL4558, 4945 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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N Chadwick   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 10 April, 2016   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 17 October, 2016
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OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4502 5820 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:12.1773N 0:7.2412E
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OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4508 5821
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