City Centre campus closure event
The City Centre campus (Newmarket Road) at Cambridge Regional College closed its doors for the last time this summer and the College is to become one single campus. CRC has sold the site for residential development, contributing to the need for more housing in the City and providing the capital receipt necessary to build and equip further state of the art, twenty-first century education and training facilities at our new Science Park Campus (J Block).
The building, opened in 1929, played an important role in the city of Cambridge, as Brunswick Infants and Junior School, before becoming CRC. To commemorate this, an open event was held on the evening of 18 June, where the public were invited to come along and have a final look around before the site is handed over to developers. There was a photographic exhibition showing images through the life of the building. Guests were able to read through a variety of newspaper cuttings, which detailed the main events in the building’s history, as well as purchase commemorative items. They were also invited to record any memories of the building, which will be put in the city archives.
The event was attended by more than 300 ex-students, staff and pupils, along with former Deputy Headmistress, Miss Batterbee, current Principal Rick Dearing and the Mayor of Cambridge, Russell McPherson.
