spot the protected building
 
see the small navy painted shed like hut on your right?  You will always see it here in front of St John’s College (where Tony Blair studied).  For this construct is the old cabby’s hut.  In Victorian days the equivalent of taxi drivers would gather and shelter here.  The hut cannot be moved an inch and must be preserved for historic posterity.  Now it sells hot drinks, ice lollies and flowers.
 
The small boundary wall that runs up from the hut marks the sanctuary point where students arriving late from curfew in Victorian times could escape the wrath of the policeman on his beat - should they have been causing loud noise - for once over this tiny wall they are under the jurisdiction of the University.  Another monument preserved for posterity!
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Wednesday, 9 February 2011