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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 11h

14th October 2023 After years together, a couple are still in step. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

13th October 2021 I love the London Planes on Jesus Green Avenue - always last to accept the arrival of Autumn.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

13th October 2023 A cumulonimbus formation narrowly misses a fashion store on St Mary's Passage. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

... red jacket traditionally worn by members of the College’s Lady Margaret Boat Club. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-to... and all bookshops.

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Town & Gown | Cambridge Books

In 'Cambridge - Town & Gown', photographer Martin Bond has meticulously curated a selection of 365 images chosen from the first seven years of his daily pictures. As a body of work, it tells a unique ...

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

13th October 2012 The largest wall of Boston Ivy in Britain turns red for the autumn. The 180-year-old ivy, on the rear of St John’s College’s New Court, is one of the city’s most famous autumn spectacles and bears the name ‘blazer’, referring to the ...

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

12th October 2015 A young girl decides to add herself to the window display of an opticians. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-to... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

12th October 2023 A cyclist attempts a pocket call alongside Hobson's Conduit. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

11th October 2021 The wall of Boston Ivy at Churchill College looking spectacular today in the autumn sun five years ago today.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

11th October 2017 The Abbott & Smith organ lodged high up in the gallery of the Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs. It was installed in the newly built church in 1890. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-to... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

11th October 2023 An elder statesman of the punting community is camouflaged in pampas grass. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

10th October 2026 Cambridge United 1 Blackpool 0

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

10th October 2023 Checking the Newmarket runners. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

10th October 2012 A recently graduating student from Anglian Ruskin University has lunch with his mother on King’s College wall. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-to... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

9th October 2014 An intrepid cyclist sets off from Sidney Sussex College in heavy rain. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-to... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

9th October 2021 As one chap shows a keen interest in birds. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Cambridge Diary Delivery Van is reluctantly for sale 🙁 Amelie and I have been together for over 15 years but it's time that we both moved on. The separation is an amicable one and we both wish each other well in our future endeavours ...

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

8th October 2016 Ten years ago today ITV were filming the Christmas episode of Grantchester.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

8th October 2021 At St John's College's New Court, another student is doing her bit to keep Britain's largest wall of Boston Ivy in check. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

8th October 2017 The City of Cambridge procession at the end of the Chevin Sermon. The sermon has taken place annually since 1589, when Richard Chevin left his house and five shillings a year to the poor. In 2017, the procession took the Mayor and four Bailiffs from ...

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

7th October 2017 St John’s College’s Lady Margaret Boat Club (named after the College’s benefactor, Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII) was founded in 1825 and was the first to use an eight-oared boat on the Cam. This women’s boat has its eight blades unconventionally rigged ...

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

7th October 2023 Browsing students come across an unexpected volume at St Botolph’s Church Book Sale. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

6th October 2016 Ten years ago today I was following the Grantchester crew as they were filming. I like that this picture of James Norton being attended to by make-up looks as though he is being anointed 🙂.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

6th October 2024 Named after Robert Woodlark, founder of St Catharine’s College in 1473, the College’s Woodlark Building bears one of Cambridge’s distinctive Richardson candle lamps — electric streetlamps designed specifically for the streets of Cambridge by ...

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

6th October 2013 Proof that if you spend your time looking at your phone you miss life happening. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-to... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

5th October 2012 A young man with time on his hands ignores the No Waiting sign on his leaning-post. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-to... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

5th October 2021 Though overshadowed by the double-towered Great Gate, the doorway to Trinity College’s Great Court still impresses, and, on the rare occasions that it is opened, provides the best views of the famous Court, fountain and clock tower. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4th October 2021 Cambridge comes alive in the first week of the Michaelmas Term, as nearly 4,000 matriculating undergraduates navigate their way around the city. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

3rd October 2023 Looking downstream at their old days at College. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2nd October 2016 In Cambridge, in October, King’s College Chapel turrets are silhouetted against an autumn sky. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-to... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2nd October 2021 In Cambridge, in October, new students begin to arrive for the Michaelmas term. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1st October 2023 In Cambridge, in October, there is a Stairway to Heaven for wild swimmers. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1st October 2010 In Cambridge, in October, a potential customer stands upright to check the sizing of a dress on the market. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-to... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-to... and all bookshops.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My photograph shows the Old Chesterton Allotments where the ‘ghost’ bomber landed. From my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

... Chesterton’s allotments, with Mrs Rigglesford’s concrete garden fence posts its final buffer. Although it left a trail of unexploded incendiary bombs in the vegetable plots, the remaining six hundred gallons of fuel in the aircraft’s tanks did not ignite, and not a single person was hurt.

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

... It might have crashed into any part of the city’s highly populated central area, or even into King’s College Chapel; but by some miracle it skimmed the rooftops of the town and made a perfect, gentle, wheels-up landing in the only open space in the locality ...

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

... and almost certain death or injury to who knows how many local residents. But the Dornier Do 217 M-1 did not crash. Instead, it flew on in a north-north-easterly direction, over Hertfordshire and beyond, for 62 miles, towards Cambridge, all the time in slow descent ...

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

... He locked his plane’s controls so that it stayed level while he and his crewmen bailed out. Had the plane crash-landed, both it and its 860 incendiary bombs would probably have come down in a built-up area in the northwest London suburbs of Kingsbury or Edgware, causing massive damage ...

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

... What greeted her must have shocked her to the core: the front cowl of a German bomber was pressed against the fence posts at the bottom of her garden. The Dornier’s pilot must have been of the belief that his aircraft was going to crash, after it suffered damage from anti-aircraft flak ...

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

... but there was one thing missing: there was no crew aboard. One of the most extraordinary stories of World War II began on the evening of 23 February 1944, just as the air raid all-clear siren sounded, and Jane Rigglesford emerged from her Anderson bomb shelter at 302 Milton Road ...

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is my favourite Cambridge story: Four and a half years into World War II, a German Dornier Do 217 M-1 bomber made a perfect wheels-up landing in allotments in central Cambridge. The aircraft was fully laden with 860 bombs and a full tank of fuel ...

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

... – proof if it is needed that the appetite for knowledge only and ever increases with its acquisition. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-to... and all bookshops.

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Town & Gown | Cambridge Books

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

30th September 2013 This wonderful gentleman was formerly a Professor of History at Harvard University and, after moving to Cambridge, he visited the University Library almost every day until his death at 93 years of age ...

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