Parker's Piece
Flat open common crossed by paths, once the scene of a vast coronation feast for thousands.
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This guide to Parker's Piece in Cambridge goes back to a June day in eighteen thirty-eight, when the town marked Queen Victoria's coronation by laying dinner for thousands on this open grass. You'll hear about college kitchens, a mayor saying grace to a crowd, ale rationed by ticket, and the country games that followed the meal. Best heard standing near the centre of the Piece, where the paths cross.
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