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University of Cambridge

Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

On Friday 18 September, the Kettle’s Yard house and the Garden Kitchen café will be closed as we prepare for the opening of our next exhibition Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now.

The lift is currently out of order due to a technical fault. We are working to fix this as quickly as possible, and apologise for any inconvenience.

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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

On Friday 18 September, the Kettle’s Yard house and the Garden Kitchen café will be closed as we prepare for the opening of our next exhibition Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now.

The lift is currently out of order due to a technical fault. We are working to fix this as quickly as possible, and apologise for any inconvenience.

David Kindersley

Born 1915 – Died 1995

Born in Codicote, Kindersley learned stonecutting as apprentice to Eric Gill from 1933. In 1939 he set up his own workshop in Cambridge. He invented a system for the accurate spacing of letters and designed the Octavian font.