King's Parade
Historic street of college facades, shops and cafés, overlooked by a golden time-eating clock.
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This guide to King's Parade in Cambridge stops at one corner, where a gold grasshopper-like creature chews along the rim of a clock set into an old Victorian bank doorway. It follows the money behind it, from a Gothic banking hall and an expired lease to an inventor whose fortune came from an everyday household switch. Stand at the corner of Bene't Street, facing the clock, and wait for the hour if you can.
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