Event

A demanding stranger comes to call. Send him on his way. But wait - is there more to him and his visit than meets the eye? So begins a Chekhov play which has been adapted for the Cambridge stage by award-winning local playwright Paul Crossley. This, together with his version of another Chekhov comedy, will form a double bill of plays re-imagined for the city - and, specifically, the area around Mill Road.

A demanding stranger comes to call. Send him on his way. But wait - is there more to him and his visit than meets the eye? So begins a Chekhov play which has been adapted for the Cambridge stage by award-winning local playwright Paul Crossley. This, together with his version of another Chekhov comedy, will form a double bill of plays re-imagined for the city - and, specifically, the area around Mill Road.

Mill Road History Society and partners invite you to a free drop in event to mark the 70th anniversary of Indian Independence as the Deaf Centre (off Mill Road, behind Cutlacks). This event is part of Open Cambridge 2017. The Deaf Centre, which is fully accessible, has a main and a small hall. This programme […]

Mill Road has always inspired artists and photographers. Artists, including Sam Motherwell, Naomi Davies, Ian Rawlinson and Daisy Zoll will show and discuss their work, and our collection of historic photographs will be on display. Cambridge Urban Sketchers will be out and about during the afternoon and will show their work. If you have a […]

We will be in the St Barnabas Centre throughout the fair (behind St Barnabas Church, entrance on St Barnabas Road). We have talks, an exhibition of old photographs and maps, activities for children (and adults) and refreshments. There will be representatives from David Parr House, the Friends of Mill Road Cemetery and Headway. We are running […]

A one-woman performance of live music and theatre by acclaimed singer and songwriter Louise Jordan, charting the rise of working-class suffragette Hannah Mitchell from a remote hilltop farm in the Derbyshire moorlands to Manchester city magistrate.

In May 1937, a month after the bombing of Guernica, 4,000 young children were evacuated from Bilbao to Southampton aboard the SS Habana. Through words and music, Rob Garcia (the son of a niño) and Paul McNamara will tell their story

Drop in, to look up who lived in your property 100 or more years ago