The Imperial War Museum in Duxford During WWI, Duxford was built. One of the first RAF bases. Duxford was one of many new RFC airfields built in 1917. Unlike many RAF airfields, it remained open after the war. It was a training school until 1924, when it became a fighter station. In 1938, No. 19 Squadron at RAF Duxford was the first to receive the Supermarine Spitfire. First Spitfire arrived at RAF Duxford in August. In June 1940, Germany occupied Belgium, Holland, and France. Britain was Germany's next target. Fully operational RAF Duxford. The Battle of Britain followed with much air combat. It defended British airspace. On "Battle of Britain Day" (September 15, 1940), its squadrons intercepted Luftwaffe attacks on London. Test and trial units left the station. The RAF needed to know how its new plane would perform in combat before handing it over to the USAAF. The 78th Fighter Group arrived at RAF Duxford in April 1943. Their mission was to protect Eighth Air Force bombers during dangerous daylight raids on Germany. Sofa Upholstery Cleaning Cambridge Omegaclean. Every available 78th Fighter Group Thunderbolt attacked targets behind the Normandy beachheads on D-Day, June 6, 1944. RAF reactivated Duxford after WWII. Its final operational phase began. Gloster Meteor, Hawker Hunter, and Gloster Javelin jet fighters were ready to shoot down Soviet bombers. The defence requirements that had made Duxford a fighter station were no longer present. Too far south and inland to justify supersonic fighter changes. The last flight from RAF Duxford took off in July 1961, and its future was unknown for 15 years. IWM needed a place to store, restore, and display exhibits too large for London. This was allowed on the airfield. Cambridgeshire County Council, Imperial War Museum, and Duxford Aviation Society revitalised the aerodrome. Europe's aviation history centre is IWM Duxford. This museum has a historic site, world-class exhibits, and famous Air Shows. Cambridge University Botanic Gardens CUBG has over 8,000 plant species from around the world. Teaching and research benefit from this. The Garden offers researchers and teachers plants, horticultural knowledge, and facilities. The Garden has always been a beautiful place to learn and enjoy. Its stunning landscapes teach visitors about plant diversity. Cambridge's first Botanic Garden opened in 1762 in the New Museums Site. It grew medical-student-training plants. John Henslow accepted the University's Botany Chair at age 29. Botany was declining. It had been 30 years since the last lecture at the city's Botanic Garden. Henslow's determination and political acumen convinced the University to move the Botanic Garden to a larger site so experimental botany could join the early 1800s rise of natural science studies at Cambridge. The additional acres would allow for the cultivation and study of new tree species in western North America. Botanic gardens are no longer just drug plant nurseries for medical students. Henslow wanted to study the plants in the Garden. Trinity Hall gave the University a 16-hectare plot of land one mile south of the city centre in 1831, but legal issues delayed development. Due to cost, the University only paid to develop the western half of the land in 1846. The garden was designed by Andrew Murray and Henslow. Murray's design includes a circling path. The Main Walk, lined with conifers, runs east-west. Outside the perimeter path, a belt of same-family trees was planted. A U-shaped lake was north of the Main Walk, and herbaceous systematics beds were south. This plan created today's Grade II* heritage landscape. The "Gardenesque" style combines plants and landscapes. Castle Hill Castle Hill has no ruins but is important to Cambridge's history. Duroliponte, an Iron Age hill fort, was here. Climbing to the top of the Castle Mound provides a panoramic view of the town's rooftops and the surrounding countryside. Clear skies in the north reveal Ely Cathedral. William I built Cambridge Castle in 1068 to fend off Hereward the Wake. Matilda's Anarchy forces besieged it but failed. During the First Barons' War, French forces seized the castle. In the late 1300s, a large portion of the building was rebuilt, but it fell into disrepair. People lived on Castle Hill during the Bronze and Iron Ages, where a later mediaeval fort was built. Ermine Street was built after the Romans conquered Britain in 43 AD to connect London to the north. West Cambridgeshire was affected. After AD 60's Boudica rebellion, the military built a fort on Castle Hill. Akeman Street led to Ermine Street. It was rebuilt in the 70s AD, but the military abandoned it and it became Duroliponte, which thrived near a road and the River Cam. In the fourth century AD, Danish and German raiders used the river to reach Rome by boat. Limestone walls protected the area. Early in the fifth century AD, the Angles took over Cambridgeshire. Mercia took over the county in the late eighth century AD. Mercians ruled Cambridge until 875, when Guthrum fortified it as part of the Danelaw. King Edward the Elder of Wessex invaded Cambridgeshire in 905. 921 saw Cambridge's fortification (town). Earth and wood ramparts backed by a ditch surrounded an elliptical area with the River Cam on the west side. By the 10th century, Cambridge was one of Eastern England's largest towns. The Central Mosque Cambridge Cambridge Central Mosque is Europe's first eco-friendly mosque. Its mission is to promote best practises in faith, community development, social cohesion, and interfaith dialogue. Cambridge Central Mosque opened April 24. Julia Barfield says a mosque's appearance is fluid. In Egypt, Andalusia, Turkey, Indonesia, and the Arabian Peninsula, mosques reflect the local aesthetic. It could be pagoda-style pavilions in China or mud bricks in Sub-Saharan Africa. It could have one dome, multiple domes, or a flat roof with many columns. Stone, wood, or concrete are used. In the late 19th century, Liverpool and Woking, Surrey built the first mosques in the UK. However, the typical style of a British mosque remains unknown: the most common approach, often driven by the need to serve as many people as possible within limited budgets, is to build a plain box that is then decorated with motifs referring to the main country of origin of the congregations - Ottoman for Turks and Cypriots, Moghul for people from the subcontinent - or from which the majority of the funding came. All Saints Church All Saints', with its pale stone spire, stands opposite Jesus College in Cambridge. It was built in the 1860s to the designs of renowned 19th-century architect G.F. Bodley and is considered a masterpiece of Victorian art and architecture. Every surface is painted, stencilled, or gilded, and flowers cover the walls. There are light-emitting stained-glass windows designed by prominent Arts and Crafts artists such as William Morris and Ford Madox Brown. Sofa Cleaning Cambridge Omegaclean The Churches Conservation Trust looks after the structure, which is open to the public every day. All Saints', with its pale stone spire, stands opposite Jesus College in Cambridge. It was built in the 1860s to the designs of renowned nineteenth-century architect G.F. Bodley and is considered a masterpiece of Victorian art and architecture. The wooden door conceals a vibrant display of colour and pattern. The stained-glass windows were designed by leading Arts and Crafts artists such as William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Ford Madox Brown. The Corpus Clock Since its unveiling in 2008, the Corpus Clock has been regarded as one of Cambridge's most distinctive public monuments by both locals and visitors. It is a one-of-a-kind timepiece that is both hypnotically beautiful and deeply disturbing. It was invented, designed, and donated to Corpus Christi College by Dr John C Taylor OBE FREng (m1959) (m1959). The Clock was built in collaboration with the local engineering firm Huxley Bertram. The clock's gold face and ripples allude to the Big Bang, the central impact that created the universe and the start of time. The clock is perched on a 'Chronophage,' which translates as 'time-eater,' because it devours each passing minute with a snap of its jaws. It evolved from John Harrison's 18th-century grasshopper escapement. It appears difficult to tell the time at first because the Corpus Clock lacks hands and digital numbers. The innermost LED ring displays hours, minutes, and seconds. At the hour, chains sway and a hammer hits a wooden coffin. Time passes and we all die, as the Latin inscription below the clock says: mundus transit et concupiscentia eius. The pendulum is also inscribed in Latin: Joh. Sartor Monan Inv. MMVIII, which translates as "Joh. Sartor Monan Inv. MMVIII." Joh. is the name Johannes, Sartor is the mediaeval Latin word for tailor, Monanensis is the Isle of Man, Inv. is the verb invenit, which can mean discovered/made/brought to fruition, and MMVIII is the year 2008. Isle of Man's John Taylor did this in 2008. The Clock stands on the site of a Natwest Bank, a building designed by architect Horace Francis in 1866 to house the London County Bank. Market Square Cambridge is known for its many markets, and merchants have set up shop in the historic market square in the city's heart since the Middle Ages. Street food, books, vinyl, CDs, and DVDs are just a few of the items available at the stalls, which are open Monday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Clothing, jewellery, and bags are examples of such items. Fruits, vegetables, and fresh fish are high in nutrients. Garden plants and used bicycles for sale There is much more to mobile phones and their accessories! Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the market square hosts a food, arts, and crafts market. The market's vendors sell organic produce grown by local farmers as well as works created by some of the area's most talented artists, craftsmen, potters, sculptors, and photographers. The Mathematical Bridge The bridge was designed by William Etheridge (1709-1766) in 1748 and built by James Essex the Younger in 1749. (1722–84). (1722–84). It was repaired in 1866 and rebuilt in 1905 with the same design. The riverside building, which was built around 1460 and is Cambridge's oldest building on the river, is visible on the right side of the image. It is now incorporated into the President's Lodge. The design is a minor engineering triumph from the mid-18th century. James King, who died in 1744, created it. The bridge is made up of several shorter pieces of wood that span a 50-foot river. The horizontal piece that appears to span the entire river, for example, is actually made of six shorter pieces of wood joined end-to-end. The design is a wooden version of a voussoir arch bridge, with each part compressed by the force of gravity acting on the entire structure: The compressive forces at the arch's springing point must be balanced by strong abutments for a voussoir bridge to function. Bending wood weakens it (think about how easy it is to break a match by bending it) (think about how easy it is to break a match by bending it). The timbers in the side trusses do not have to bend much or at all in this bridge design: The triangulation in the side trusses gives them strength without becoming too heavy, and it keeps the joints between the arch's segments from bending. Because the sides aren't filled in, side winds don't cause as much damage to the structure. The only cross-bracing is located beneath the walkway. It was claimed that if a side truss needed a new piece of wood, that piece could be removed and replaced without affecting its neighbours or requiring the entire bridge to be dismantled. This has never been tried in the real world. The Wren Library The Wren Library is one of Cambridge's most well-known and historically significant college libraries. You should go if you like books, old buildings, or both. The library was designed by Sir Christopher Wren, a well-known British architect and stonemason. It is one of several buildings he designed or built at Cambridge colleges. Two more of his works in Cambridge are the chapel at Emmanuel College and the Wren (Kitchen) bridge at St. John's (although he did not build this) (although he did not build this). This library houses the most valuable and well-known books in all of Cambridge. The first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, as well as the first two folios of Shakespeare's works, are housed here. It also contains original Winnie the Pooh drawings by A.A. Milne.