Links

The BFI have fairly recently uploaded many archive films from around Britain to their website as described in their press release. You can search the archives in various different ways from their map at http://player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/map/ or you can jump straight to the Cambridge ones.

We can’t spot any Mill Road scenes unfortunately, but if you do see any then please let us know.

This isn’t Mill Road related, however a good source of photos of Cambridge past is worth recording.

In 1971, the late Peter Soar, a Cambridge solicitor and keen amateur photographer, set about recording the last days of the parts of Cambridge city centre destined to be demolished to make way for major redevelopment. He also photographed the area during construction and after most of it was completed.

You can see the photos at http://www.fine-photographs.co.uk/index.php/adminicle/90-lion-yard-cambridge

On the same web site is a series of photos taken of the Kite Area in 1981 before its conversion into the Grafton Centre.

They can be seen here http://www.fine-photographs.co.uk/index.php/myphotos/the-kite-area-hammans

Thanks to Anthony Carpen for the links who also has written about some of our missing social venues at https://adragonsbestfriend.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/lostcambridge-the-demise-of-our-citys-social-venues/ and collected some scanned old photos at https://www.flickr.com/photos/puffles2010/sets/72157666927226872.

A flashback to 2013 when Mill Road History Project founder member Ian Bent featured in the Cambridge News.

You can read the original news story on the Cambridge News website and more detail about Robert Browning on Capturing Cambridge.

The History Society is looking at a similar scheme for notable people along Mill Road.  If you would like to help out with this project then please contact us.