Interview with Pam Egan (b.1932).
Pam Egan’s family moved to Stony Stratford when she was two years old. She recalls hearing about the new town through the local newspapers and was against the development since she liked Stony as a small, rural market town. She describes the concerns of local business people who felt they might lose trade, and recalls meetings, protests and local shopkeepers moving out. However, she appreciates the new amenities, the theatre, cinema, art gallery and restaurants; in her opinion the concrete cows ‘put Milton Keynes on the map in a fun way’.
She talks at length about changes in shopping over the years. She recalls events such as the red balloons, the ‘energy/home world’ promotions and dressing up as a sailor to promote a one-person house with portholes. She comments on the demolition of traditional housing. She also mentions topics such as protests over the proposed siting of the third London airport near Wing, the closure of the Queens Pool in Bletchley and Stony Stratford’s ‘Folk on the Green’ music festival.
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