Discover Pink Floyd’s Cambridge with this fold-out map guide by Glenn Povey, founder of the Pink Floyd fanzine Brain Damage. Through 40 entries in and around the city we chart the band’s story – from family homes and schools to beatnik coffee bars, ballrooms and the riverside meadows where it all began.

Roger Waters, Syd Barrett and David Gilmour were Cambridge boys who crossed paths at school, art classes and the town’s dance halls before leaving for London. Explore the Silver Street pub where one story has Roger Barrett becoming Syd, the Milton pub where he exhibited his paintings under his given name in 1964, and the Cherry Hinton laundry that gave “Arnold Layne” its name. Follow Syd’s return to the stage at the King’s College Cellar, his debut with Stars at the Dandelion Café before an audience of nine, and the Dorothy Ballroom, where Gilmour played Sunday nights in a jazz trio with a future Pink Floyd saxophonist.

From the Mill Pond, the place to hang out in the 1960s, to Grantchester Meadows, which inspired a Roger Waters song, this expertly researched guide is packed with dates, addresses and cultural context. Perfect for Pink Floyd fans, collectors and visitors to Cambridge, it works as a self-guided walking tour of the places that shaped the band’s early years and enduring legacy.

In the package
The guide includes the fold-out map (210 x 138mm folded, 210 x 696mm unfolded) and a postcard.

Written by
Glenn Povey

Design by
Peder Bernhardt

Print
Litho-printed in Sussex, England, using vegetable oil-based inks on sustainably sourced paper