Did you know that I went to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University? It’s true! Not to study. I’m not that smart. Or rich. Or connected to the political elite engaged in the eternal talent show to find Britain’s Nastiest Latin-Speaking Shitstain. Or a mole sent by the Russians. Although a mole sent by the Russians would say that. But I did pop in and take a look there briefly when we visited the attractive city in 2015. We hadn’t planned to – we were really just passing through – but there was a sign that said we could and so we did. And it was a lovely day for it.
The photos below feature some of the fantastic architecture of this university city, and I particularly like the Art Deco example slapped in the middle of far more classical design styles.
Corpus Christi dates from the fourteenth century, and with only a few hundred undergraduates and postgraduates it’s one of the smallest colleges making up the university. That doesn’t impact how lovely some of the buildings are, although they are clearly from a later period, with the impressive New Court having been completed in 1827.
Also completed in 1827 is the Chapel which incorporates some medieval elements – some of the stained glass windows – and the flooring – from the Elizabethan period – that were salvaged from older buildings during construction of the New Court.
The actual reason we’d driven up to Cambridge from where we were staying for this short break was to have a nose around the nostalgia-riddled Centre for Computing History. Should I have taken loads of photos? Yes, I should have. Why didn’t I? Because we were too busy typing up terrible BASIC programs, playing old games on vintage consoles, and just enjoying flicking really clunky switches on behemoths with microscopic computing power and memory. The computer museum at Cambridge is the best reason to visit Cambridge and you’ll have a bloody wonderful time if you’re of a certain age. We’re of a certain age.
