Very Wide Wednesday!

Very wet and windy in Cambridge this morning. This is an entry for Wide-Wednesday: Different Point of View High or Low. As I was on my knees, I think this fisheye shot is in the low category!  Thanks to RSD Photography for hosting.   

Here we have the iconic Foster’s Mill; the only surviving building in the immediate area around Cambridge Station known as CB1 that has been the subject of a massive and controversial development in recent years.

Built in 1898, it is one of the few examples of large-scale industry in the city. The Foster family owned three mills in the city but the University prevented them from constructing railway lines to them, so they built this mill immediately next to the railway station. It had been part of a complex of railway buildings, yards and a cattlemarket that had served three different railway companies before WW2, and now has been replaced with flats, shops and leisure facilities. This article from the Guardian outlines some of the problems that have ensued and is a shocking indictment of our planning system.

 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2017/jun/13/an-embarrassment-to-the-city-what-went-wrong-with-the-725m-gateway-to-cambridge

The statue in front of the Mill is Ceres, the Goddess of Corn by William Bloye and was commissioned by the flour merchants Spillers in 1962 to stand outside their research laboratories in Station Road.