Sunday in My City: Magdalene Street

[jacquelineb]

In Cambridge, Magdalene College is pronounced ‘maudlin’. Don’t ask; a punt tour guide explained it to my parents and I recently, but I forget – something about the founder wanting it to sound like his name and this was a way around that rule…

At any rate, these pictures are not of the college, but the street that has some of the prettiest buildings in Cambridge.

Intersection of Magdalene Street, Castle Street, Northampton Street, and Chesterton Lane

Shops along Magdalene Street

More shops along Magdalene Street

Mirrored from jacquelinebrocker.esquinx.net.

Comments

[rosehiptea]

This is lovely! Thank you for this.

(I know this will sound stupid but I read a lot of British mysteries but I don't always think about how the town and cities actually look.)

[jacquelineb]

My pleasure! :)

For what it's worth, this is not how most of Cambridge looks - though yes, it looks different to the States, though I only know the States from pictures. Think narrower houses, and people living a little more compactly.