Walk in Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Cambridge is a university town in England. I walk through the streets and across the market square. Along the University and to the Cam. Very nice English town with modern shopping center.
Cold and Rainy in Cambridge City Centre, England; Our Lady and the English Martyrs Catholic Church
If you say Cambridge in North America, a lot of people will think of the city near Boston in Massachusetts. But there are several different towns and places named Cambridge in the world, including one in Ontario near to Toronto. There are other Cambridges in Australia, Barbados, various parts of Canada (i.e. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Nunavut...), Jamaica, Malta, New Zealand, and a few dozen across the United States. Even England has a few different places called Cambridge. But the main city named Cambridge in the United Kingdom is a town of about 130,000 in Cambridgeshire (in southeastern England, a few miles north of London). Cambridge, England is best known as a university town. Cambridge University is Britain's second oldest and most prestigious university after Oxford.
Cambridge isn't a very big city, in terms of physical size. It's less than half the size of the Old City of Toronto (Downtown Toronto and surrounding areas). The outlying suburbs may be bigger, but, overall, it isn't a very big city in terms of physical size. You can walk from one side to the other pretty easily, if you don't mind walking. The city core isn't very big and a lot of it is dominated by the university. The older parts of the city surround the city centre, with older houses and buildings. In the outlying suburbs you have newer buildings, with the type of houses you'd see in your average North American suburban subdivision.
England lived up to its reputation for being cold and wet when I was there in July 2016. Toronto was very hot when I left, but England was cold and rainy. I didn't dress properly and was cold all the time. Better bring a jacket or sweater even if you go to England in the summer, or better yet a raincoat.
This video was taken in Cambridge City Centre, when I got caught in a rain storm, found shelter in a building doorway, and took this short video. Cambridge has lots of churches, so I'm not sure exactly which one this is. But it looks like it might be the Our Lady and the English Martyrs (OLEM) Roman Catholic Church near Hills Road and Lensfield Road. This is a Gothic Revival style church built between 1885 and 1890.
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Coleton Fishacre - Devon Holiday Attractions
This video of Coleton Fishacre shows some of the beautiful views which make it so popular with tourists. The house itself holds memorabilia and furniture of the family who lived here in the nineteen twenties. The gardens offer pleasant walks among beautiful plants. You also get stunning views of the sea and the cliffs at the bottom of the garden.
Walk along the River Cam in Cambridge England 02
The Virtual Tourist walks along the River Cam in Cambridge England
Cambridge, England: King's College Chapel and Some Punting on the River Cam
Some punting today, sir? -- Brief takes of King's College Cathedral, a rather lonesome punter, and the River Cam meandering through the City of Cambridge, England.
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Morning Drive to Work in Cambridge
December 9, 2015
Cambridge Guided (missile) bus
My friend Robert Bond coming within millimetres of being hit by the Cambridge guided bus
A Winter's Morning in my village, Coleford, Forest Of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK.
This was filmed a couple of days ago, can hardly get through the door now!
St Ives Cornwall July 2016
St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia, meaning St Ia's cove) is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular holiday resort, notably achieving the title of Best UK Seaside Town from the British Travel Awards in both 2010 and 2011.
St Ives was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1639. St Ives has become renowned for its number of artists. It was named best seaside town of 2007 by The Guardian newspaper. It should not be confused with St Ives, a village and civil parish in south-east Cornwall.
The origin of St Ives is attributed in legend to the arrival of the Irish Saint Ia of Cornwall, in the 5th century. The parish church bears her name, and St Ives derives from it.
The Sloop Inn, which lies on the wharf was a fisherman's pub for many centuries and is dated to circa 1312, making it one of the oldest inns in Cornwall. The town was the site of a particularly notable atrocity during the Prayer Book rebellion of 1549. The English Provost Marshal (Anthony Kingston) came to St Ives and invited the portreeve, John Payne, to lunch at an inn. He asked the portreeve to have the gallows erected during the course of the lunch. Afterwards the portreeve and the Provost Marshal walked down to the gallows; the Provost Marshal then ordered the portreeve to mount the gallows. The portreeve was then hanged for being a busy rebel.
The seal of St Ives is Argent, an ivy branch overspreading the whole field Vert, with the legend Sigillum Burgi St. Ives in Com. Cornub. 1690.
During the Spanish Armada of 1597 two Spanish ships, a bark and a pinnace had made their way to St Ives to seek shelter from the storm which had dispersed the Spanish fleet. They were captured by the English warship Warpsite of Sir Walter Raleigh leaking from the same storm. The information given by the prisoners was vital on learning the Armada's objectives.
Fishing
From medieval times fishing was important at St Ives; it was the most important fishing port on the north coast. The pier was built by John Smeaton in 1767–70 but has been lengthened at a later date. The octagonal lookout with a cupola belongs to Smeaton's design.
In the decade 1747–1756 the total number of pilchards dispatched from the four principal Cornish ports of Falmouth, Fowey, Penzance and St Ives averaged 30,000 hogsheads annually (making a total of 900 million fish). Much greater catches were achieved in 1790 and 1796. In 1847 the exports of pilchards from Cornwall amounted to 40,883 hogsheads or 122 million fish while the greatest number ever taken in one seine was 5,600 hogsheads at St Ives in 1868.
Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin describes how the St Ives fisherman strictly observed Sunday as a day of rest. St Ives was a very busy fishing port and seining was the usual method of fishing. Seining was carried out by a set of three boats of different sizes, the largest two carrying seine nets of different sizes. The total number of crew was seventeen or eighteen. However this came to an end in 1924. The bulk of the catch was exported to Italy: for example in 1830 6,400 hogsheads were sent to Mediterranean ports. From 1829 to 1838 the yearly average for this trade was 9,000 hogsheads.
While commercial fishing is much reduced, the harbour is still in use, often as well for recreational boating, tourist fishing and day trips to the nearby seal colonies on the Carrack Rocks and other locations along the coast. Recently, a class of Victorian fishing boat unique to St. Ives, known as a jumbo, has been replicated by boatbuilder Jonny Nance to celebrate the town's maritime heritage. Today's jumbos are operated by the St. Ives Jumbo Association.
The first lifeboat was stationed in the town in 1840. In 1867 the Royal National Lifeboat Institution built a boathouse at Porthgwidden beach. It proved to be a difficult site to launch from and in 1867 it was replaced by a building in Fore Street. In 1911 a new boathouse was built on the Quay, and then in 1993 a larger station was built at the landward end of the West Pier
Seven crewmen died in the St Ives lifeboat tragedy of 1939. In the early hours of 23 January 1939 there was a Force 10 storm blowing with gusts up to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). The lifeboat John and Sara Eliza Stych was launched at 3 o'clock to search for a ship reported in trouble off Cape Cornwall. It rounded The Island where it met the full force of the storm as it headed westwards. It capsized three times and drifted across St Ives Bay when its propeller was fouled. The first time it turned over four men were lost; the second time one more; the third time left only one man alive. He scrambled ashore when the boat was wrecked on rocks near Godrevy Point
Bus journey in Cambridge
View from top deck, Addenbrooke's roundabout - Hills Road - Cambridge station. Only jumped one set of lights. 6 November 2008.