The Cambridgeshire Explorer – CD-ROM
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This web-site is slow – The CD-ROM isn’t

All image files are at low resolution on this web site to speed up load times.

The image files on the CD-ROM are at high resolution and because the files are held locally on your PC they load quickly.

The Photograph Collection

1,687 Photographs

1,000 Old Photographs dating between 1870-1960

(Supplied by “The Cambridgeshire Collection”)

Park Street, Chatteris (early 1900s)

There are 189 locations from the “old” county of Cambridgeshire included on the CD-ROM.

Every location covered has at least 5 photographs. The larger locations have many more. Cambridge & Ely have 50 photographs.

Cambridge – The CGM Hatfield Photographs

Included for Cambridge are approximately 50 photographs taken by CGM Hatfield of Bottisham. These are mostly taken in the 1930s and depict a changing face of Cambridge. Including the building sites (either before or during the building work) of Sussex Street, Market Hill, Christ’s Lane and Silver Street (Queen’s College - west of the river). Most of these photographs haven’t been seen since they were taken

Viewing the Photographs

The photographic files can be viewed in various ways:-

“The Photo Album” – view each photograph in alphabetical order
“The Location Album” – view each location in alphabetical order, with thumbnail photographs linked direct to the “Photo Album”
“The Category Album” – view 17 different categories (listed below), with thumbnail photographs linked direct to the “Photo Album”

“The Photo Album” (Click here to see a low resolution example – note: all links have been removed)

Just click on the Print Icon provided. The photographic files are designed to print to a standard A4 printer.

Click on the Zoom Icon to see the photograph in more detail. You will be amazed at the detail.

(Note: on the example attached here the image is a .gif file and is not at high-resolution. High-resolution .jpg files are used on the final CD-ROM)

Never before have so many photographs of Cambridgeshire been available from one source.

If you take 10 seconds to view each photograph it will take over 4 hours to view them all.

“The Location Album” (Click here to see a list of all locations included)

All 189 Locations in alphabetical order are included. Each of these contain thumbnails linked direct to the Photo Album, plus direct links to the Kelly’s 1904 map and Kelly’s 1904 Directory pages. The numbers of photographs per location will be added shortly.

“The Category Album”

There are 17 Categories included within the “Category Album”, these are as follows :-

CATEGORY	No. of Photos
At Work	12
Bridges & Rivers	34
Churches	475
Events	6
Groups of People	10
Halls & Manors	48
Industrial Buildings	10
Landmarks & Public Buildings	16
Mills & Windmills	34
Post Offices	34
Public Houses, Inns & Hotels	180
Railway Stations	75
Schools & Colleges	95
Traders & Shops	45
Sport & Clubs	15
Village Signs	97
War Memorials	21

General Scenes like the one shown above do not appear under the above categories.

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Last Updated 16^th October 2002