Cambridge Daily News 13 Jan 1930: gales bring down trees

Cambridge experienced the full force of the gales. Broken fragments of tiles and chimney pots told their own tale including the house of Mr David Crown, the builder, which had a large hole in the roof. Many trees were blown down along the Backs of the Colleges; two on the corner of Queens’ Green were both snapped off by the violence of the winds, another fell across the road opposite St John’s College and several giant elms were snapped off like matchwood. A large tree fell across the road at Trumpington and a motor cyclist collided with it, without injury. A poplar on the edge of Snob’s Stream, Sheeps Green fell carrying with it a large number of telegraph wires.