A small Archive display set up in the College Chapel on the occasion of "Fire at Little Gidding" a special poetry reading in aid of Ferrar House at Little Gidding with the Poet Laureate present. Display items and captions.
Reused part of regular Blythe display (with focus on Old Court), Mellon material and also Benefactors' book from Fellows Library set up in the Master's Lodge.
A small display of maps and other documents relating to Lolworth arranged for some residents of the village who had been researching the village history.
Views of Clare Bridge (surrogate material only) in display cases in Fellows' Library.
Comprises:
(1) Act for ... drainage of... Bedford Level, 1663; similar Act, 1754
(2) Act for establishing Addenbrooke's Hospital, 1767
(3) Acts for paving, cleansing, lighting and road widening in Cambridge, 1788 and 1794
(4) Acts for repairing roads from Cambridge to Long Leys and Royston (Herts), 1793, road to Arrington, 1797, and road to Newmarket Heath, 1815
(5) Act for new prison for town of Cambridge, 1827
(6) Act to create gas lighting company, 1834
(7) Cambridge Corporation Bill, 1849
(8) Resolution of Heads of Houses about defence against proposals to impose rates on Colleges, 1850
(9) Cambridge Improvement Bill, 1874
(10) Report (with map) on proposed diversion of sewage to pumping station on River Cam, printed 1885
Including: report of Vice-Chancellor (William Webb) and syndics, with map, concerning fence between Senate House Yard and King's Parade, near front of King's College Chapel, 1833; printed letter, from ''representatives of Charitable Corporations''
Includes illustration of fire engine and fire-fighting equipment. With endorsed memorandum of new trustees, 1798.
With authorisation from Bishop of Ely (Matthias Mawson)
Richard Terrick (admitted 1726) was Bishop of Peterborough, 1757-1764, and of London, 1764-1777