A photo of Henry Tribe by Martin Parr. This photo was displayed on hoardings around Cambridge's Grand Arcade shopping centre.

Henry Tribe

Cambridge

This website is a work in progress. I will add information to it as I work through the Archive and as time permits. The website was last updated on 07/09/2025. The most recently added pages are Effluvium Warning Cards from The Loological Society and USA Road Trip. Other recently added pages are Gulls at Milton Landfill, A Visit to a Welsh Coal Mine, Journey to Ottawa, Return to England, Henry Reads Winnie-the-Pooh, Henry at the Grand Arcade, The Summons, A History of Mill Road Library, The Flying Bomb, “Bring Nylon Shirts” and Body Donation. If you would like me to notify you when I add new pages, please email me at andrea@sunlituplands.org.uk.

Photograph of Henry Tribe on the hoardings aroud Cambridge's Grand Arcade shopping centre during its development.

Henry at the Grand Arcade

In 2005 a large photograph of Henry appeared on the hoardings around Cambridge’s Grand Arcade development …

A History of Mill Road Library

In 1995 Henry, appalled by the closure of Cambridge’s Mill Road Library which he regarded as an act of “cultural sabotage”, decided to look into the reasons for its closure. In 1997 he wrote a history of the library, which is available here in PDF format.

Gulls and "yellow monster" at a landfill site (photo credit: iStock/choice76)

Gulls at Milton Landfill

Henry writes: “Yesterday I made a reconnaissance, which I have intended to do for some time, of the approaches to the Milton rubbish disposal site and of the birds that frequent it … “


More to come …