The Salvation Army is a Christian charitable organisation organised in a quasi-military structure. The organisation reports worldwide membership of over 1.5 million, consisting of soldiers, officers and adherents known as Salvationists. Its founders William and Catherine Booth sought to bring salvation to the poor, destitute and hungry by meeting both their "physical and spiritual needs".
The Army was founded in 1865 in London by one-time Methodist minister William Booth.
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).