The houses, which are built around Coleridge Recreation ground, appear to be the standard style for the 1930s. Not much to see, very ordinary is the area. And yet these two houses stand out as a twin set, for their peculiar shape, and because in some ways they appear to have been built the wrong way round. They have no front door.
I like this shot because these two houses look, in some way, as if they have had a tunnel carved through them, with the house on the right bearing the brunt of the tunnelling. Its the very narrow window to the left of the front door and the fact that the building is almost half the size of its neighbour, that gives this effect. Clearly there is another house, which can be accessed by a car it seems, through the drive created between the two houses.
The complex below, in Newnham, is a favourite of mine, because it appears to have an art deco style balcony. This photo doesn’t do that fact justice, and I’m not even sure it is art deco.
On Cambridge
Photos
Places
- Along the River Cam
- Beechwoods Nature Reserve
- Lamma’s Land
- Hodson’s Folly
- Wandlebury Country Park
- Magog Down
- Byron’s Pool
- The Busway
- The DNA Path
- Trumpington
- Hobson’s Brook
- Grantchester Meadows
- Cambridge American Cemetery
- Wimpole Hall
Seasons
Themes
- In the time of COVID
- Cool Bikes and Other Bikes
- Suburban Architecture
- Street Art and Graffiti
- Cambridge is a city, in which there are outwards manifestations of support for the European Union
Commentary on Cambridge
- Kingfisher Way
- Suburban Architecture
- The Museum of Shit
- Cambridge Botanical Garden’s two claims to fame
- 100% iphone snow didn’t fall in Cambridge
Attempt at satire
- Brexit denial in Cambridge Botanic Gardens
- One of the best experiences of my life was when I found out I was in a shop 100% committed to fresh British meat