Reality Checkpoint
Old electric lamp-post with cult painted lettering where two paths cross a historic football common.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Reality Checkpoint, the painted lamp-post at the heart of Parker's Piece in Cambridge, starts with a student in the eighteen-forties reading football rules nailed to a tree. It follows the students who tried to settle what the game should be, and the long road from this field to the Football Association. You'll also hear the competing local theories about who the two painted words are really for. Best heard standing right beside the lamp-post where the paths cross.
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