MI L L ROAD WINTER FA I R
FROM STREET FOOD FAVOURITES TO LOCAL CRAFT STALLS AND FUN MUSICAL PERFORMANCES, THERE’S SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE AT THIS WINTER EVENT The fun of the fair
WORDS BY NICOLA FOLEY
ach year, on the first Saturday of December, the Romsey and Petersfield neighbourhoods come alive with music, dancing,
colourful parades and throngs of food stalls for the Mill Road Winter Fair. Founded in 2005 with the goal of celebrating the local community and attracting visitors to the area, the event has since blossomed into one of the most popular fixtures of the winter calendar in the city. These days, it attracts more than ten thousand visitors each year, with hundreds of stalls, a packed live music line-up and food on offer from around the world, but it remains an entirely volunteer- run event. “It’s built by the community
IMAGES Photos by Adam Cash. Mill Road Winter Fair sees the whole of this bustling street animated with entertainment, stalls and thousands of visitors
for the community”, says Chiara Satta from the Mill Road Winter Fair team. “It’s important for the people living on and off Mill Road, because it brings together different communities with their different faiths, beliefs and cultures. It strengthens friendships and relationships among each representative group or individual and their work, and makes cooperation between communities on both sides of the railway bridge possible. The Mill Road community is unique, and so is this event! “I’m personally really looking forward to seeing the parade and all the arts and crafts stalls around,” she continues. “The parade this year will be bigger, louder and more colourful! This year the theme is nature, so we expect a lot of children and adults dressed up as plants, flowers or trees, which is always very amusing.” With more live music than ever before, scores of Cambridge’s best-loved food and drinks companies and some new additions including poets and science demos, 2019 looks set to be a vintage year for the fair – here’s a taster of what’s in store!
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