Victorian Cambridge
St Barnabas Centre Old School Hall, St. Barnabas Church, Mill Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomFrom Apathy to Energy - how Town and University embraced development, technology and science. With Honor Ridout
From Apathy to Energy - how Town and University embraced development, technology and science. With Honor Ridout
Test your knowledge in our ‘quite interesting’ quiz - individuals or teams of up to 4 welcome. With your quizmaster, Dean Parkin.
With Eva Clarke.
With Tony Kirby. Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start. Entrance in Stockwell St. After the talk, we will agree a constitution for the Mill Road History Society and elect officers (ie. Chair and Treasurer). Please look at the draft constitution before-hand if you wish to make comments. If you'd like to get involved in establishing the new Mill Road History Society, […]
Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start. Entrance in Stockwell St. By the Pye History Trust
Nick Mansfield is Senior Research Fellow in History at UCLan in Preston, but was born and brought up in Sturton Street, Cambridge. His talk Buildings of the Labour movement is based on his 2013 book for English Heritage. It will partly focus on labour movement buildings in the Cambridge area, including Sturton Town Hall (later the Kinema), the Romsey Town Labour […]
Comparing Covent Garden and Hemingford Road
The Society has been given a large box of photos, clippings and documents by the Suzy Oakes Trust that need sorting through and cataloguing so that we can scan them and make them available to researchers and other interested parties. Please come along if you would like to help us with this.
Author Catherine Seymour will be talking about the lives of the Cambridge 'Bedders' following the recent launch of her book on the subject, The Staircase Girls.
As part of Open Cambridge 2016 the Mill Road History Society will be leading a walking tour of the architectural highlights of Mill Road from the cemetery to the bridge. This event must be booked through Open Cambridge.