A line drawing of a shop front labelled LAST EXIT, featuring a door with an open sign, decorative leaf patterns, and number 54.

Last Exit 54a Mill Road Cambridge

54a Mill Road

Books, magazines, records and food

1962

(54a) H G Stiles, bakers

In the early to mid seventies 54 Mill Road was the location of a music and book shop called Last Exit owned, it is believed, by Chris Guest, Dave Rodgers and Steve DeBondt.

Thanks to Gregor Alvey for the information and posters.

By 1978 it had become Bar Italia.

Storefront of Bar Italia on Mill Road with a sign reading Soft Ice Cream Sold Here, an ice cream cone model, and a pavement sign.

Courtesy of the Cambridgeshire Collection. B.MILL.K78 51262.

Later it became the Bosphorus – well known as the place to get hot food late at night after everywhere else had closed for the evening.

A man and woman stand on the pavement before two adjacent brick shopfronts on Mill Road in Cambridge, captured in October 2002.

Courtesy of Ann Horn and the Suzy Oakes Collection

The site is currently (2019) the LightHouse Grill.

2020

Tulip Restaurant

54 Mill Road (2014 David Betts)

Projects

Mill Road

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