Kings College

Cambridge also used to be home to a secret society who called themselves the Night Climbers. They would scale the city’s buildings by night with very little equipment and even less permission. They once climbed Kings College Chapel and left a traffic cone on the top left tower of the building. The master of the college saw what they had done and wasn’t impressed. The only way up there if you’re not a climber is with a lot of scaffolding. He called out builders and started erecting a scaffold. After several days they still weren’t all the way up, it had started to rain and they said “it’s not that far left to go we’ll just come back tomorrow and finish the job”. But during the night the student climbed back up that chapel and swapped the traffic cone over to the right tower. That has become a tradition since then, every imaginable object has found its way up there. They’ve had toilet seats, santa hats, a bicycle… but the college does now use a marksman to get things down.

Kings bridge, according the legend, is the last place in England you can still legally fight to the death so if you’ve got a set of pistols and an outstanding grudge… this is the place!