Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge
Historic college beside the Senate House, whose engineering students once put a van on its roof.
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This guide to Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge follows one night in June nineteen fifty-eight, when a group of the college's engineering students set out to put a derelict Austin Seven van somewhere it had no business being. You'll meet Peter Davey, whose room looked out on the target, the three teams he organised, and a Dean whose reaction was not quite what the rulebook required. Best heard standing in Senate House Passage, looking up at the gap between the two buildings.
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