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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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.
Mill Road History Society
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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.
Here some photos from our Mill Road Celebrates India event at the Cambridgeshire Deaf Association last Saturday. The photos were taken by Ed Jenkins, Simon Middleton, Lucy Walker & Richard Wood.
Many thanks to all those who took part in and helped organise the event and everyone who came and enjoyed themselves.
We’re happy to announce that our new brochure with the programme of events for 2017/2018 is available to download now.
Paper copies will also be available at our talks and in shops up and down Mill Road.
Remember, our first two events are coming up very soon:
In case you hadn’t seen it in our events list then here is a reminder of our upcoming event, Mill Road Celebrates India, part of Open Cambridge 2017.
It is a full day programme of events themed around the 70th anniversary of Indian Independence being held at the Deaf Centre on Romsey Terrace. The whole day is free, please drop in and out as you wish.
Mill Road Celebrates India
