On this site, Charles Babbage, the Victorian mechanical computer pioneer, was born in 1791, although the original house has been demolished.
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On 25 March 2013 a fire damaged the museum and library and destroyed some artifacts, including relics of the city’s Roman period.
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As described in Cuming's will it comprised, "My Museum illustrative of Natural History, Archaeology and Ethnology with my coins and medals and… other curios".
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