Mill Road History Society

As it looks like social activities won’t be getting back to normal any time soon now then Mill Road History Society has decided to take a step into the future and move our programme online.

Our first event is an online version of what we were originally planning to present as part of our AGM last month. In remembrance of the recent VE Day we have members of the society talking about WW2 objects they have “brought along” to show you.

See the event page at https://millroadhistory.org.uk/event/agm-and-a-special-event-to-mark-the-75th-anniversary-of-ve-day-2/ or on Facebook for all the details. The event is this Tuesday 9 June, at 7:30pm on Zoom.

We hope to bring you more online events, please sign up to our mailing list to be the first to be informed.

We are sorry to announce that, due to the government advice to practice social distancing for the duration of the Coronavirus outbreak, we have decided to cancel our upcoming events for April, May and June.

We hope to rearrange these for the 2020/2021 season, assuming that life is back to normal then. We will update this website, and send information out to our mailing list and social media, as things change.

We’ve just published our new brochure covering the events coming up over the next year. Printed copies will be available up and down Mill Road as well as at our events or you can download a PDF copy.

More details about all of the events will appear on this website and Facebook and be included in our monthly newsletter.

The society’s Annual General Meeting for 2019 will be held in the Ross Street Community Centre on Tuesday 14 May 2019 at 7:30pm. It will be followed by a talk, From Vice to Virtue: The Cambridge Female Refuge.

The AGM (which will be short) and the talk are open to everyone.

Here are documents for the meeting.

We have just published our new brochure containing events for the first half of 2019. You can pick up a printed copy in assorted locations on Mill Road or you can download a PDF copy here.

All the events will make their way onto this website and Facebook in due course.

A belated thanks to all the artists who contributed to our Open Cambridge day back in September and also to everyone who visited us there at the St Barnabas Centre.

Below is a selection of photos from the day which included Sam Motherwell, Naomi Davies, Ian Rawlinson, Daisy Zoll, Cambridge Urban Sketchers and Dovetailed.

Photos by Allan Brigham, Simon Middleton, Lucy Walker, Emma Bonsall.

We have just published our new brochure containing events for the rest of 2018. You can pick up a printed copy in assorted locations on Mill Road or you can download a PDF copy here.

All the events will make their way onto this website and Facebook in due course.

Thank you to everyone who came to our AGM on Tuesday, in spite of the lovely weather outside, and to Gareth Rees of Oxford Archaeology for his talk on the excavation of the Lost Baptist cemetery on East Road.

The minutes of the AGM are now available to download from our Files page or directly from 2018.05.08 AGM minutes.

Also note you can download Gareth’s report on the excavation at https://library.thehumanjourney.net/1677/1/Report%201437_final_LR.pdf

 

Due to upcoming new rules for all organisations that hold email addresses (the General Data Protection Regulation) we are contacting everyone on our mailing list to confirm that they still wish to be subscribed. The process is just to sign up again through our Mailing List form – the email makes it simpler by filling in the fields for you first.

This post is to reassure anyone who checks that the email is from us and is not an elaborate phishing attack. If there are any questions then please contact admin@millroadhistory.org.uk.