Fosters' Bank

Station Road is a road in southeast Cambridge, England. It leads from a junction with traffic lights on Hills Road (A1307) to the Cambridge railway station. At the western end of Station Road on the opposite side of Hills Road is the Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

The station and a war memorial at the two ends of the road are Grade II listed. The view along Station Road has a leafy appearance. There are a number of Victorian houses on the north side of the road. These have lost their gardens and been converted for commercial use.

The south side of the road is main large modern buildings. For example, Jupiter House was built in 1974. It was reclad in the 1980s. Daedalus House is also located on the south side.

Foster's Mill (also known as Foster Mills, Foster Mill and Spiller's Mill), off Station Road, was built of painted gault brick in 1898, designed by the architects Gelder and Kitchen of Hull. It is one of the largest buildings in Cambridge, as well as being one of the few examples of large-scale industry in the city. The Foster family owned three mills in the city but the University of Cambridge prevented them from constructing railway lines to them, so they built this mill immediately next to the railway station.

In 1917, Foster's Mill was sold to Pauls Agriculture and in 1947 it was sold to Spillers. Additions were made to the building in 1953. In 2000, it was owned by Rank Hovis. In 2001, it was announced that Rank Hovis would vacate the site eventually to enable redevelopment of the site.

The Foster family also founded Fosters' Bank for use by their mill workers, with a site in Sidney Street in central Cambridge. The building (now a Lloyds Bank branch) was designed by the Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse and built 1890–93. The name still exists over the doorway. The interior of the bank is vaulted and highly decorated with tiles,

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