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The great reckoning

In: Going South

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  • Larry Elliott
  • Dan Atkinson

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Parker’s Piece is where town meets gown in Cambridge. It is a slab of green open space to the south of the city centre where, it is said, the rules of Association Football were first drawn up in the nineteenth century. At the centre of Parker’s Piece there is a lamp-post built by the Sun Foundry in Glasgow, a company that did not outlast the reign of Queen Victoria. Since the 1970s its local claim to fame has been words etched on it by a student at what was then the Cambridge College for Arts and Technology: ‘Reality Checkpoint’. The centre of Parker’s Piece was where the cosseted, privileged world of the university ended and the real world began.

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  • Larry Elliott & Dan Atkinson, 2012. "The great reckoning," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Going South, chapter 0, pages 235-268, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-39255-7_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-230-39255-7_8
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