I think that my splore buddies are starting to worry that I've gone a bit "Rurex" on them with my last two reports 
Visited on a mad splore day in Cambridge with UrbanX being our tour guide, also along on this were Skeleton Key, Mr and Mrs Troglodyte, Chieftan, and Ry
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In a quiet Cambridgeshire village there once stood two magnificent houses called Whitefields and Uplands
Recent history
The local folklore is as follows (Or what you can gather from several variations of it)
Both houses were owned by a local self made millionaire named as Mr Ratte, who as half of a sucessful local company called "Ratte & Kett" made a fortune in the Cambridge electronics and computing industry.
The story has it that one night after a furious row with his Wife, Mr Ratte decided to burn both of the houses to the ground, the stories differ slightly here, one says that Mr Ratte blocked his extremely long drive with cars to stop the fire brigade from putting out the fire while another version claims that the fire brigade couldn't get up the drive due to low hanging trees, either way the fire engines had to slowly make their way across a field and by the time they arrived Whitefileds was totally destroyed and Uplands wasn't far behind.
The remains of the Whitefields mansion was demolished and bulldozed into the swimming pool which just leaves the remains of Uplands to be seen today
The Past
Uplands was built in 1893 by the Physiologist W.H. Gaskell.
Gaskell was educated at Trinity College Cambridge, receiving his BA in 1869. His key discoveries included the sequence of cardiac contraction, and autonomic control of the heart. He also made progress in mapping the nervous system
He was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society in 1882 and in 1889 he won the Royal Medal for his research and in 1908 he wrote "The Origin of the Vertebrates"
Gaskell died at Uplands in 1914
Uplands
The house would have once had beautiful arches
and huge fire places
The Future
Planning permission has been granted to demolish Uplands and build a 99 room 5 star hotel complete with 18 hole golf course.
These artists and architects drawings are taken from the planning permission
Visited on a mad splore day in Cambridge with UrbanX being our tour guide, also along on this were Skeleton Key, Mr and Mrs Troglodyte, Chieftan, and Ry
_____________________________________________
In a quiet Cambridgeshire village there once stood two magnificent houses called Whitefields and Uplands
Recent history
The local folklore is as follows (Or what you can gather from several variations of it)
Both houses were owned by a local self made millionaire named as Mr Ratte, who as half of a sucessful local company called "Ratte & Kett" made a fortune in the Cambridge electronics and computing industry.
The story has it that one night after a furious row with his Wife, Mr Ratte decided to burn both of the houses to the ground, the stories differ slightly here, one says that Mr Ratte blocked his extremely long drive with cars to stop the fire brigade from putting out the fire while another version claims that the fire brigade couldn't get up the drive due to low hanging trees, either way the fire engines had to slowly make their way across a field and by the time they arrived Whitefileds was totally destroyed and Uplands wasn't far behind.
The remains of the Whitefields mansion was demolished and bulldozed into the swimming pool which just leaves the remains of Uplands to be seen today
The Past
Uplands was built in 1893 by the Physiologist W.H. Gaskell.
Gaskell was educated at Trinity College Cambridge, receiving his BA in 1869. His key discoveries included the sequence of cardiac contraction, and autonomic control of the heart. He also made progress in mapping the nervous system
He was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society in 1882 and in 1889 he won the Royal Medal for his research and in 1908 he wrote "The Origin of the Vertebrates"
Gaskell died at Uplands in 1914
Uplands
The house would have once had beautiful arches
and huge fire places
The Future
Planning permission has been granted to demolish Uplands and build a 99 room 5 star hotel complete with 18 hole golf course.
These artists and architects drawings are taken from the planning permission
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