In 1981 George Hatton (3 Albion Row) recalled the games children used to play – tops and whips, roller skating and skipping on the slope from Kettle’s Yard to Northampton Street. He remembered the sign visible in a photograph warning drivers to drive slowly as they approached the Northampton Street Castle Street crossroads.
Reproduced with kind permission from Capturing Cambridge. Read the full entry https://capturingcambridge.org/castle/northampton-street/kettles-yard-northampton-street/