Interview with Alan Francis (b.1948).
Alan Francis moved to Milton Keynes from Abingdon in 1978 to take up a research position at the Open University and moved into the new Rainbow Housing Co-operative in Spencer Street. He explains how the cooperative worked and recalls New Bradwell as an established, tight-knit community and an attractive place to live.
He remembers shopping in Bletchley before the City Centre shops opened. Now a regular vistor to the city centre, he still regrets the closure of old shops because of the supermarket competition. He discusses the benefits of MK compared with other cities and its drawbacks. In his opinion the biggest drawback is transport: if you don’t have a car, you have a great deal of difficulty getting about.
He is happy living in Milton Keynes and on the whole thinks the schools here do a ‘good job’. He also talks of population size, housing density, employment, parish councils and his own involvement in the community.
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