The Senses of Stourbridge Fair
Piece written and performed by St Philip's Pupils
1m Jun 07, 2017
1m
There Was a Gargoyle
Piece written and performed by St Philip's Pupils
55s Jun 07, 2017
55s
A Day at The Fitz
Piece written and performed by Morley Pupils
41s Jun 07, 2017
41s
As Time Goes By
Piece written and performed by Morley Pupils
1m Jun 07, 2017
1m
Going, Going, Gone
Piece written and performed by Morley Pupils
58s Jun 07, 2017
58s
The Cambridge Lions
Piece written and performed by Morley Pupils
30s Jun 07, 2017
30s
The Lions Can
Piece written and performed by Morley Pupils
46s Jun 07, 2017
46s
The Lion's Life
Piece written and performed by Morley Pupils
1m Jun 07, 2017
1m
The Listening Lions
Piece written and performed by Morley Pupils
46s Jun 07, 2017
46s
The Watchful Lions
Piece written and performed by Morley Pupils
37s Jun 07, 2017
37s
Windmill Windmill
Piece written and performed by St Luke's Y5 Pupils
34s Jun 07, 2017
34s
When Can I Sleep
Piece written and performed by St Luke's Y5 Pupils
58s Jun 07, 2017
58s
The French's Farm
Piece written and performed by St Luke's Y5 Pupils
43s Jun 07, 2017
43s
French's Flour
Piece written and performed by St Luke's Y5 Pupils
19s Jun 07, 2017
19s
Chesterton Mills
Piece written and performed by St Luke's Y5 Pupils
2m Jun 07, 2017
2m
Old Michael French
Song written and performed by St Luke's Y5 Pupils
1m Jun 07, 2017
1m
The Cambridge Navvies by Patrick Olsen 2017
The Cambridge Navvies by Patrick Olsen 2017 The /Nav-vies were men who / made the can-als for /twelve hours a day they’d / sweat with their pals movin’ /twenty tonnes of earth in a / barrow up a plank… and / leavin’ it all at the /top of the bank. The navvies were men who / laid the train tracks / Cutting through hills with a / pick and an axe. / Lay-in’ the ties… / covered them with st...
1m May 22, 2017
1m
Stop 1 Founding of Leper Chapel & of Stourbridge Fair
3m Apr 19, 2017
3m
Stop 2 Lepers as Outcasts & Chapel dedication to St Mary Magdalene
3m Apr 19, 2017
3m
Stop 3 Life & Death at the Leper Chapel
4m Apr 19, 2017
4m
Stop 4 Leper Hospital & Stourbridge name
2m Apr 19, 2017
2m
Stop 5 Garlic Row as Fair's Main Street
3m Apr 19, 2017
3m
Stop 6 Fair Booths & Mercers Row
4m Apr 19, 2017
4m
Stop 7 Oyster Row & the Oyster House
3m Apr 19, 2017
3m
Stop 8 Stourbridge Common Booths & Horses Fair Day
4m Apr 19, 2017
4m
Stop 9 River Ferry for Fair & to Chesterton
2m Apr 19, 2017
2m
Stop 10 River trade to Cambridge
4m Apr 19, 2017
4m
Stop 11 Stourbridge Fair Entertainments
4m Apr 19, 2017
4m
Stop 12 Barnwell Junction
3m Apr 19, 2017
3m
Michael Rosen Poem: As I was Going to Stourbridge Fair : Newton, Apple Pie, Prisms or Prisons?
Michael Rosen says that he wondered about how to tackle writing a history poem about Stourbridge Fair and came up with the idea of a kind of ghost monologue. So this new poem, commissioned by Helen Weinstein at HistoryWorks for 'Creating My Cambridge' is called "Newton, Apple Pie, Prisms or Prisons?" and starts with a meeting with a stranger, and the stranger starts talking...
3m Apr 18, 2017
3m
OUTSIDERS AT THE LEPER CHAPEL
2m Feb 28, 2017
2m
AS I WAS GOING TO STOURBRIDGE FAIR (Taster for Documentary Feature)
Taster of a documentary feature format by Historyworks about The Leper Chapel in Cambridge which would be a metaphor for the outsider in society ( particularly the migrant and trading traveller) because the documentary will explore the stories of this plot over 800 years and will have a gripping sound texture to create a poetic exploration with Michael Rosen's responses and will be layered up w...
6m Feb 28, 2017
6m
Hey Mr Miller
Hey Mr Miller!What a swing that you bring to the band! x2 With your trombone and your saxophone,We can hear you all through the land. x 2 Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba da ba da ba da ba da ba ba ba da ba doo wah! x2
3m Feb 27, 2017
3m
The Hunt is Up
1m Oct 03, 2016
1m
ENGINEER'S HOUSE (CMT Trail Stop 12)
6m Sep 05, 2016
6m
Michael Rosen's Coldham's Common Poem
Poem devised collaboratively with Helen Weinstein who briefed Michael Rosen about the area and the local history & you can find the resources for parents and teachers about Coldham's Common, Coprolite mining and more on our website http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/songs-creative/resources/local-history-topics MICHAEL ROSEN'S COLDHAM'S COMMON POEMThe years passand the grass grows,the grass gr...
3m Aug 18, 2016
3m
Michael Rosen's Pterosaur Poo Poem
Pterosaur poo, Pterosaur poo.Thousands found it. Didn’t know what to do!Pterosaur poo, Pterosaur poo,Made of stone. Too hard to chew.Ptesosaur poo, Pterosaur poo.Near to where, the cows go moo.Pterosaur poo. Pterosaur poo.Now it’s ancient. Once it was new.Pterosaur poo. Pterosaur poo.Thousands came. Did they queue?Pterosaur poo. Pterosaur poo.In a poem by you know who! By Michael Rosen
38s Aug 17, 2016
38s
Great Market Fire of 1849
For more details visit http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails/great-st-marys-cambridge-market-area/ The Cambridge Market square is what it is today as a result of the Great Fire. This took place on the night of Saturday 15th September 1849, when a blaze broke out at half past midnight at a clothier’s shop full of textiles. In those times, there were wooden houses and workshops erected like ...
2m Aug 17, 2016
2m
Unsung Women
For more details visit http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails/great-st-marys-cambridge-market-area/ Although you will see many women celebrating their graduations alongside their male classmates nowadays, this wasn’t always the case. Women’s colleges were founded in the mid-1800s, but despite doing all of the hard work and exams, women weren’t full members of the University and so were not ...
2m Aug 17, 2016
2m
Queens & Kings at Great St Mary's
For more details visit http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails/great-st-marys-cambridge-market-area/ QUEEN ELIZABETH I VISITS GREAT ST MARY’S In the summer of 1564, Queen Elizabeth I came to Cambridge, her only visit to the university city throughout her long reign. The students and professors of the Tudor University as well as residents of the town began preparing frantically for her arriv...
2m Aug 17, 2016
2m
Burning Bodies in Tudor Times
For more details visit http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails/great-st-marys-cambridge-market-area/ In Tudor times, religion was a matter of life and death. Martin Bucer was a celebrated Protestant theologian. While the Protestant boy-king Edward VI ruled England, Martin Bucer became Professor of Theology at Cambridge. When Martin died, 3,000 people crammed into Great St Mary’s for his fune...
2m Aug 17, 2016
2m
The Bells & Chimes of Great St Mary's
For more details visit http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails/great-st-marys-cambridge-market-area/ There have been bells at Great St Mary’s from at least 1303 and they rang to call everyone to Church services; to open the town Corn market; to toll for births, marriages and deaths; and to announce the start of University meetings and lectures. They rang out for great events like royal coron...
2m Aug 17, 2016
2m
Charles Darwin's Stuffed Monkey
For more details visit http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails/great-st-marys-cambridge-market-area/ Charles Darwin was a scientist who studied in Cambridge. He was supposed to train as a vicar, but he found beetle collecting much more interesting, and became a scientist instead. His radical theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. Charles Darwin sprea...
2m Aug 17, 2016
2m
A Schoolboy Sailor
For more details visit http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails/great-st-marys-cambridge-market-area/ Christopher Cooke was one of Cambridge’s youngest war heroes. He was only 15 when he survived a disaster which proved that the deadly German U-boats had changed naval warfare forever. As a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Christopher was sent to sea on HMS Aboukir as soon as the First World ...
2m Aug 17, 2016
2m
Roslind Franklin: Discovery of DNA
This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local schoolchildren, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by...
4m Aug 17, 2016
4m
The Iron Works
For more details visit http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails/from-abbey-meadows-to-market-square/ The Headly family was one of the major iron-founding families in Cambridge, and was casting iron in the town longer than anyone else. The Headly iron works foundry was located on Market Hill on the site that is currently being occupied by Marks & Spencer. By the 1840s, the foundry had passed t...
2m Aug 17, 2016
2m
Hobson's Fountain of 1614
This history trail audio is narrated by the poet Michael Rosen, with script researched by Helen Weinstein and the team at Historyworks. This recording is part of a series of Cambridge history trails which have lyrics inspired by 'history beneath our feat' performed by local schoolchildren, with poems by the top poet Michael Rosen and songs by the funny team at CBBC's songwriters commissioned by...
2m Aug 17, 2016
2m
Datum Point
For more details visit http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails/from-abbey-meadows-to-market-square/ What many people don’t know is that Great St Mary’s is the official centre of Cambridge and has been so since 1725. Nationally, maps were printed as engravings and became popular in small pocket forms in the 1600s, with Ogilby’s “Road Maps of England and Wales” published in 1675 becoming the b...
2m Aug 17, 2016
2m
Cromwell
For more details visit http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails/from-abbey-meadows-to-market-square/ Oliver Cromwell grew up in Huntingdon near Cambridge, and went to Sidney Sussex College, starting as a student just before his seventeenth birthday. He worked in and around Cambridge for the next 20 years, becoming MP and joined the Parliamentarian side during the English Civil War. When King ...
2m Aug 17, 2016
2m
Equiano
For more details visit http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/trails/from-abbey-meadows-to-market-square/ Cambridge was once home to two of the most prominent campaigners against the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), who was an African, campaigned alongside Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), from Wisbech. They were both early activists, just as important as William Wilberforce. The...
2m Aug 17, 2016
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