More than 260 people gathered for a tea party yesterday afternoon in Toft. Although in no way a Royalist!, I record the celebration here in my Blog as this is now my diary since I went on-line in 2008. Here a few images of the event plus one from the Silver Jubilee in 1977 in Toft.
Many of us reflected during the party on the plight of those who, for whatever reason, do not at this time have enough food to eat or the opportunity to share it with friends and relatives.
I managed to lose my phone at the weekend so a replacement was purchased - s refurbished HuaweiY6 from 2019 rather than 2017. I tested the camera just to know its capabilities - fairly limited but certainly good enough to record important memories and data on the move.
Yesterday this included recording the demolition of Mill Lane having been purchased by Pembroke College. The Mill Lane development will enlarge the footprint of the College by a third, to enable many more to live on the Pembroke campus, and to transform the educational and social spaces. The development will create almost a hundred new high-quality rooms, set around a beautiful courtyard. It will also include an exhibition gallery open to the public, a 220-seat auditorium (created out of the former United Reform Church) for lectures, talks, and concerts and a new entrance into the site, with a Porters’ Lodge, diagonally across Trumpington Street from the present gateway. The cost is quoted as £75 million; Ray Dolby (former student and sound system innovator) and his family bequest of £35 million to Pembroke is being recognised by naming a court after them.
