WORDS VICTORIA JENKINS
PHOTOS FRASER MARR
The story of Carol and Keith Hunt’s family home is fascinating. It begins in the mid-Victorian era, the site just outside of Cambridge was initially home to a row of three cottages. Then, in around 1950, the entire plot and its dwellings were bought by Dr Charles Swithinbank, a scientist based at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge and Carol’s father. As the cottages were in a very poor state and beyond refurbishment, Dr Swithinbank decided to demolish and replace them with a modest bungalow, which had a tiny kitchen and bathroom. “It was meant to be his bachelor home,” says Carol. “But then he met my mother and they got married and raised three children here.”