Change has been a way of life for the citizens of Milton Keynes for more than thirty years. Its original residents have watched their once familiar rural landscape systematically re-designed. New settlers have radically changed their lives, leaving their roots and family ties behind as they moved to the brand new housing estates in the fledgling city. How do you help the long-time residents retain their pride in their lives and histories that seem to be lost in the name of progress? How do you give the new arrivals the sense of coming into a place which has a past as well as a future?
These were the challenges which led to the establishment of the Living Archive project in 1984 and this New Communities catalogue is comprised of three of the archive's collections documenting the cause and effect of change on local residents.
Heritage Lottery Fund, Milton Keynes Community Foundation, Milton Keynes Council
