2013 The Mill Road History Project started with a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to fund a community project to record some of the history of Mill Road through research and interviews with long term residents.

2015 Capturing Cambridge website was launched with detailed  reports on 10 buildings and sites along Mill Road along with a selection of Oral Histories.

2016 The Mill Road History Project concluded, spinning off into the Mill Road History Society, and the website was transferred to the Museum of Cambridge.

2017 With help from a grant from Cambridge City Council the Museum recruited community editors to manage areas of the website and add posts in locations other than Mill Road such as Queen Edith’s and Trumpington.

2018 Not for the last time  work is performed on the website behind the scenes as the number of locations on the map grows and the present scheme of projects, roads and buildings is created.

2019 The Sturton Town project is started with the participation of many of the residents of those streets

2023 The This is Our Street – Gwydir Street project starts

2025 The base map on the website is changed from Google Maps to MapTiler which meant it was now possible to use historical Ordnance Survey maps from 1901 and 1937.

2026 More improvements are coming…

Dear Visitor,

Thank you for exploring historical Cambridgeshire! We hope you enjoy your visit.

Capturing Cambridge makes accessible thousands of photos and memories of Cambridge and its surrounding villages and towns. It is run by the Museum of Cambridge which, though 90 years old, is one of the most poorly publicly funded local history museums in the UK. It receives no core funding from local or central government nor from the University of Cambridge. As a result, we are facing a crisis; we have no financial cushion unlike many other museums in Cambridge and are facing the need to drastically cut our operations back.

This could affect our ability to continue to run and develop this groundbreaking local history website. If Capturing Cambridge matters to you, then the survival of the Museum of the Cambridge should matter as well.

If you won’t support the preservation of your heritage, no-one else will! Your support is critical.

If you love Capturing Cambridge, and you are able to, we’d appreciate your support today.

Every donation makes a world of difference.

Thank you,
Roger Lilley, Chair of Trustees
Museum of Cambridge