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The Cambridge Explorer CD-ROM
Produced by Hugo
Brown in association with “The Cambridgeshire Collection”.
An Interactive guide to Cambridge, it’s
Colleges, Churches, Streets & much more over the last 130 years.
Over 1,000 high resolution
photographs both New & Old 5
Major Categories Include: Streets, Colleges, Churches,
Public
Houses & Trades. 500 Photographs have been supplied
by
The Cambridgeshire Collection.
3 Highly Detailed Cambridge Maps
The W.P. Spalding Maps of Cambridge for 1904, 1924 and
1949 have been included. A full street index for 1949 links
direct to the correct
section of the map.
There are tours of the town centre using the 1904 W.P
Spalding
map as a guide. Including colleges, churches & pubs and
two city
centre tours, one around the
turn of 20th century
and the other
around the turn of the Millennium.
14,555
People & Businesses Included in the 1904 Street Directory
The complete W.P. Spalding Street Directory of
Cambridge for 1904
has been fully indexed in 10 different ways: indexes
of Pages, Streets,
Surnames, Advertisements, Businesses, Churches, Colleges, Occupations,
House Names and Public Houses. Each index entry
includes a direct
hyperlink to the colour facsimile of the original page
of the Directory.
Price
elsewhere = £20
This
Site
Welcome1 General
Information about the CD-ROM
Welcome2 About the W.P. Spalding
street directories of Cambridge
Welcome3 About
the W.P. Spalding Maps of Cambridge
Welcome4 About
the Photograph Collections
Welcome5 5
Tours with maps & photographs
Links Links
to Genealogy & Local History Sites
Order Info How
to order your copy and places where The Cambridge Explorer is available
What the Papers Say A listing of reviews and similar articles
about the Cambridge Explorer CD-ROM
The Launch The
Official Launch of the Cambridge Explorer CD-ROM 12th July 2001
Try before you buy See the Cambridge Explorer in action before you place your
order
Licence Agreement The
Licence Agreement for the use of The Cambridge Explorer CD-ROM
For details of the new Cambridgeshire Explorer click here : “The Cambridgeshire Explorer CD-ROM” Now on Sale.
System
Requirements:-
Any Pentium based PC (200MHz plus recommended) with a CD-ROM Drive and
Microsoft
Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later required (VML)
This WEB-SITE maybe slow. The CD-ROM isn't*
Last
Update 14th October 2002
©
Hugo Brown (2002)
Background
Photograph = Kings College, Cambridge
* Dependent
on the speed of your computer (Pentium 200+ MHz recommended).
Note: The Cambridge Explorer is written
using VML (Vector Mark-up Language).
VML is part of a submission for recommendation to the World Wide
Web Consortium.
At present only Microsoft Internet Explorer v5 or newer caters
for this facility.
Current versions of Netscape Navigator do not. Other browsers
have not been tested.
VML reduces graphic file sizes and speeds up graphic file
download times.