Road Winter Fair The Mill Road Winter Fair is an annual fair on the first Saturday in December. Attendance grew from 10,000 at the first fair in 2005 to at least 20,000 in 2009. Since 2009 part of Mill Road, including the bridge, has been closed to traffic for the duration of the fair. Regular activities include a shop window display competition, live music, folk dancing, a local history walk and open days at the road's churches, temple and mosque. The fair was founded by Suzy Oakes. Notable residents The following live or have lived in the Mill Road area: Douglas Adams — author. Born at Mill Road Maternity Hospital, 1952. Syd Barrett — musician. Born at 60 Glisson Road, 1946. Attended Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University) with David Gilmour, 1962–64. Worked as a postman at Mill Road Sorting Office. Richard Berengarten (aka Burns), poet and founder of the Cambridge Poetry Festival. Allan Brigham — local historian and tour guide. Lived in Cockburn Street, off Mill Road. Robert Carpenter — cricketer. Born 18 November 1830 in Mill Road. Susanna Clarke — author (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell). Rajani Palme Dutt — communist ideologue and vice-chairman of the British Communist Party (CPGB). Born 1896 in 25 Mill Road, where his father Upendra Krishna Dutt had founded a medical practice around 1890. The building now houses the Petersfield Medical Practice. Gordon Fraser — publisher. Lived at 274a Mill Road during the late 1930s. Dylan Thomas attended a notorious week-long drunken party there in 1937 after coming to Cambridge to give a reading. David Gilmour — musician. Lived in a flat on Mill Road while playing in Joker's Wild, his first band. Colin Greenland — Science fiction author (Take Back Plenty). Timothy Gowers — Mathematician. Fred Hoyle — astronomer and mathematician. Lived on Mill Road as an undergraduate in Emmanuel College digs, 1933–35. Tom Karen — designer of the Reliant Scimitar GTE, Bond Bug and Raleigh Chopper bicycle. Mary Kingsley — Ethnographist, writer and explorer. Lived at 7, Mortimer Road. F. R. Leavis — notable British literary critic. Born above his father's music shop at 68 Mill Road, 1895. David Parr - decorative artist in the Arts and Crafts and Gothic Revival styles, lived at 186 Gwydir Street, just off Mill Road, from 1886 to 1927 Shahida Rahman - English author, writer and publisher. Born at Mill Road