The first Cambridge clinic was in Covent Garden, off Mill Road, on the city side of the railway and it opened in the 1930s
We think that it was rented as there are branch minutes in which the landlord's offer to put in electricity is discussed.
In 1953 a new, purpose-built clinic opened in Gt. Eastern St., on the far side of the railway line. This was owned by the branch and seems to have been built on land which was acquired cheaply because it had been bombed (the land backed onto the railway line and was probably hit by German aircraft which were attempting to block the railway).
Lord Merthyr was the chairman of the RSPCA National Governing Council at that time. Cambridge University Vet School had been established four years earlier and this probably explains why the Vice-Chancellor of the University is present in the photograph.
In 2003, the clinic moved to its current site at Pool Way
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Last updated 21/05/2010
