ENTRANCE YARD (CMT Trail stop 1)
For the trail of the Cambridge Museum of Technology, we've divided the spaces into eleven stops. Each stop is offered as a transcription (see below) illustrated for those who are not able-bodied to see the details of the site through descriptions and photography. You can use the audio guide online or in situ which is provided freely here, stop by stop, starting with ENTRANCE YARD (CMT Trail stop 1) AUDIO.
CMT TRAIL STOP 1 WORDS SPOKEN BY CAMBRIDGE MUSEUM OF TECHNOLOGY'S CURATOR, PAM HALLS: The starting location is just outside the doors of Cambridge's Victorian sewage pumping station. Here we can see two cages and they were used to filter the sewage that came into the pumping station. The idea was that you didn’t want to have anything big like wood or dead dogs snarling up the pumps, so these two cages, they would drop down into the flow of the stewerage about 40 foot below us and they had to be wound up twice a day and one of the workers here then had to pull out whatever was found inside there. Within museum folklore there is a story that a live crocodile was once brought on site to be disposed of, but they hadn't realised it was only sleeping, so gave the workers an awful fright when it woke up! * (dead baby story on audio has been replaced with crocodile story to make it more child friendly). So now shall we go into the building here? You can see over the doorway it says 1894 which was the date that it was built.
Here is Pam Halls, Curator of the Cambridge Museum of Technology, the voice on the audio guide:
TRAIL STOP PHOTOS & SELFIES: Please do use social media to submit an arty photo or a selfie taken at this stop. Have a go to take an arty photo of an object. Or fit in your entire family with the chimney! Historyworks will upload photos to the trail stop to share with others! All you have to do is share on twitter using @historyworkstv and @CamTechMuseum or email your photos to the team at historyworkstv@gmail.com HAPPY SNAPPING :-)
HAVE A LOOK AT PHOTOS AT THE CAMBRIDGE MUSEUM OF CAMBRIDGE MOSTLY TAKEN BY THE HISTORYWORKS TEAM SHOWING DETAILS OF MACHINES TO ILLUSTRATE THE TRAIL STOPS, BUT PLEASE SEE THAT THESE NOW INLUDE SELFIES AND ARTY PHOTOS FROM THE STOBBS IP PARTICIPANTS, ADDED TO PHOTOS TAKEN BY HELEN WEINSTEIN & MARIO SATCHWELL & JON CALVER OF HISTORYWORKS:
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