Please feel free to download and print out this walking tour for your own personal use.
You can find out more about all of the locations featured on this tour at https://capturingcambridge.org/projects/mill-road-area
Our thanks to Emily Boldy for putting together this walking tour of Mill Road featuring details from our research.
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
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Mill Road History Society
www.millroadhistory.org.uk
millroadhistory@gmail.com
Annual General Meeting Tuesday May 8th 7.30pm
Ross St Centre, Ross St CB1 3UZ
Doors open at 7.0pm. The AGM will be followed by a talk
from Gareth Rees of Oxford Archaeology East:
‘The lost Baptist Cemetery on East Road and the development of 19th century East Cambridge’
1. Welcome
2. Minutes of 2017 general meeting
3. Chair’s Report
4. Report from Treasurer.
5. Data Protection Issues
6. Election of Officers. Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, and other members of the Committee
7. AOB
Thanks to everyone who came to see use at the Mill Road Winter Fair, I hope you enjoyed what you saw and heard and will come see us again next year.
A special thanks to our speakers:
And to the East Anglian Film Archive (http://www.eafa.org.uk) for permission to show some of their films.
Here are a few photos from the event taken by Emma Bonsall, Simon Middleton and Jane Phillimore.
And here is the film that Headway Cambridge showed on Saturday that talks about the research they did into the history of their new home at Fulbourn.
