Cambridge

Remembering the lost streets and pubs of cambridge, a city losing its character to corporate blandness.

Monday, October 24, 2005

Model making and being sick outside pubs

You know those model train enthusiasts who make replica models of real railway stations?, well I think it would be a great idea to have a model of cambridge done, especially the streets that used to make up an area called the kite, thats mostly gone now and there is a shopping center in its place, a miserable thing that doesnt really deserve any words wasted on it.Well yes there are old pictures of the kite area but I think a 3 dimensional model would be great, I lived in fitzroy street fom the age of eight to ten and where our house was is now part of the grafton, opposite was the ancient druids, a pub, I remember seeing a bloke stumbling out of there and bringing up who knows how many pints onto the pavement. I was shocked by the behaviour I witnessed, yet I wasnt to know that one day I would be keeping that very same tradition alive, alas there was no chance of doing it outside the ancient druids though, that went in the late 70s.They opened a new pub round the corner and called it the same name but it was more like a big conservatory and had no character at all so I didnt spend much time in it, dont know whats happened to it I havent been round that part of town for a while.Anyway I think having a model of the kite area somewhere in the grafton would be an extremely good idea, I might mention it to my local paper but I probably wont, I dont think they would be interested.

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