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 19/10/2025 – I added a page that lists changes to the website. The most recently added content page is Cleaning at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Other completed pages include Evacuation to Ilfracombe and The Flying Bomb (wartime); Journey to Ottawa, Return to England and USA Road Trip (lots of 1950s ephemera); and Henry Reads Winnie-the-Pooh. 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 …

Mill-Road-Library-Cambridge

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 … “

Addenbrooke's Main Entrance 1964 (photo by Katharina Tribe).

Cleaning at Addenbrooke’s

During a three week break from her English course, Henry’s future wife Katharina worked as a cleaner at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. This page includes Katharina’s photos of Addenbrooke’s in 1964, as well as her account of her work as written in letters to her parents.

More to come …