The Kite Area, photographs by Roy Hammans

The Kite Area, Cambridge

In 1981 I worked on a personal project photographing building facades in and around the part of Cambridge then known as the Kite Area.
The name originated from the shape delineated (approximately) by the roads surrounding it. It was an old community blighted by a 30-year planning battle that would eventually see all of the Victorian (and some earlier) buildings demolished to make way for a large shopping centre and cinema complex. The Grafton Centre now occupies the site.
There was considerable local resistence to the plans, but the City Council, Jesus College (major landowners) and Grosvenor Estates (developers) inevitably won in the end and redevelopment started in 1981.
There is a very good web site detailing the story behind the Kite by Ian Kitching.

Date: 30/07/08

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	Beaumonts, East Road, 1981 Date: 28/07/03 Views: 50			Fitzroy Street, 1981 Date: 30/07/08 Views: 48
	Fitzroy Street, 1981 Date: 28/07/03 Views: 49			Fitzroy Street, 1981 Date: 30/07/08 Views: 47
	Fitzroy Street, 1981 Date: 30/07/08 Views: 45			Fitzroy Street, 1981 Date: 30/07/08 Views: 48
	Burleigh Street, 1981 Date: 30/07/08 Views: 51			Fitzroy Street, 1981 Date: 19/06/05 Views: 49
	Corner of Burleigh Street and City Road, 1981 Date: 30/07/08 Views: 55			Perne Road, 1981 Date: 28/07/03 Views: 46
	The Eden Chapel, Burleigh Street/Fitzroy Street, 1981 Date: 01/08/03 Views: 50			East Road, 1981 Date: 19/06/05 Views: 47
	Norfolk Terrace, 1981 Date: 28/07/03 Views: 50			Adam & Eve Street, 1981 Date: 15/09/08 Views: 51
	East Road, 1981 Date: 15/09/08 Views: 52			Fitzroy Street, 1981 Date: 15/09/08 Views: 55

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