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then much smaller Addenbrooke's Hospital almost 

 opposite. The Fitzwilham art collections, which had 

 been housed in the old Perse School in Free School Lane, 

 were still being exhibited in 1848 in the east room of 

 the University Library. The old College buildings still 

 stood at Pembroke, and small houses occupied the site 

 of the existing College buildings now facing Trumpington 

 Street to the south of the Chapel. Waterhouse's 

 " structures " were not built until the early 'seventies, 

 and Scott's beautiful court in Pembroke Street not until 

 1883. In the middle of the last century people apparently 

 preferred privacy, and where we now have open railings 

 they had walls. There was a wall in front of Peterhouse 

 and another shut off the little garden near the east end 

 of Trinity Chapel ; a third wall enclosed the graveyard 

 of St. Andrew's Church, and another had but recently 

 hidden the Round Church. The new buildings of the 

 Pitt Press were opened in 1833 and the old Lodge and 

 neighbouring buildings which clung round the east end 

 of King's Chapel had been by this time removed, but 

 houses still clustered round the east end of St. Edward's 

 Church and Great St. Mary's, and, indeed, the greater 

 part of Market Hill was cumbered with buildings. The 

 market was then held in an L-shaped space along the 

 east and the southern side, and the old conduit which 

 now stands at the corner of the Lensfield and Trumping- 

 ton Roads stood at the west end of the southern limb. 

 The greater part of the marketing in those days was 

 done on Peas Hill, at that time a more spacious area 

 than our present market-place, and Cambridge is one of 

 the few towns left where the weekly market is still a 

 featm-e in the life of the citizens. The year after Newton 

 came up a providential fire destroyed some of those 

 houses clustering around the east end of St. Mary's, and 

 the opportunity was taken to remove the others. 



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