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> Editorial
> What's the Story?
> Mrs. Fixit
> Desperately Seeking Ingredients...
> Passionate about Mill Road
> Caribbean Masterchef
> Everything is Possible!
> A Sanctuary on Mill Road
> Boat People
> Going Green with Al-Amin
> The Akashi Project
> Open All Hours
> Mesmerised by Meze
> Come Together
> The Girl from Arapau
> Still Sweet and Spicy
> A Real Neighourhood
> Lei Si Fan Mei?
> Flight from Baghdad
> Streets of Revolution
> Stepping up the Ladder
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Welcome
Cambridge is so much more than universities!
Mill Road has become a part of my community for the last six years here in Cambridge, with Momentum Arts being only a few feet away on Tenison Road. Going to the shops on lunch breaks, ordering catering for meetings and training days, getting to know the names of the shopkeepers over the years and a bit about their lives and families, Christmas shopping at the Cherry Tree, not to mention last minute postings at Al-Amins and sumptuous dinners at Kymmoy’s, just enjoying the multicultural district that is Mill Road. Sometimes just dropping in for a chat at Sweet ’n Spicy or ordering ice creams at Raj’s on a hot summer day for colleagues and enjoying meals at Café Brazil. In fact, when I first moved to Cambridge I lived in Brookfields for a few weeks and experienced this unusual area first-hand and fell in love.
There have been a lot of changes in recent years, adding to the ‘melting pot’ of this corner of the world in the heart of Cambridge, including new events like the Winter Fair and discovering that many years ago what is now called Ditchburn Place used to be the Maternity Ward. This vibrant existence has been so for over 30 years and continues to grow. |
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On designing our project the Untold Stories, the missing link would have been not including this unique place and its people. We have been blessed in sourcing our local writer David Lambert who took on the task of interviewing and collating more than 14 stories and with each step discovering more and more inspirational journeys that needed to be heard.
It gives me great pleasure to share the Cambridge Untold magazine with you, thanks to our main sponsor the Heritage Lottery Fund in helping us to preserve the wonderful heritage of people and place. Working with a solid local team is important, so for this I extend our heartfelt thanks to the dynamic Inner Fig Creative company who undertook the design and layout of this magazine led by the creative force of Aiysha Malik.
Cambridge Untold will prove to be an inspiration to any age group. Inside these pages lie heart-rending stories from Boat People, a man, his bucket and ladder and a dream in Stepping Up the Ladder, to the cotton picking young girl in The Girl from Arapau, to a Flight from Baghdad and many more exciting and invigorating stories that will motivate your own journey towards success in spite of limitations, betrayals, and setbacks. As the stories unfold you will discover too that in spite of wars, poverty, abuse, the force of nature through storms, deaths and births, these are stories of perseverance, courage and great strength.
We hope the powerful stories between these pages will give you an even greater awareness of the beauty of the multi-ethnic fascinating journeys of the people of Cambridge and that because of these we can now enjoy a community that is alive and continues to grow with each day.
Included in these pages are people’s dreams for Mill Road: my own is that it can one day be regenerated and become the wonderful renaissance that it promises to be with the help of each of us.
Go ahead now and enjoy this unique magazine Cambridge Untold – as it is now told!
Blessings,
Patricia Lashley
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