Interview with Jane Jeavons (b.1940).
Jane Jeavons was born in Belbridge, Sussex and grew up in Surrey and Kent. She moved to Peartree Bridge in Milton Keynes in 1978, with her husband and children when her husband was appointed a headteacher of a school in Netherfield. When she moved to Milton Keynes she explains that she felt like a pioneer. Her first job was at the Open University as a secretary, and she later became an Arrivals Worker for the Milton Keynes Development Corporation.
She discusses housing and their various moves in MK, recalls health care prior to the hospital being built, shopping and the opening of the shopping centre in 1979, the closure of the Newport Pagnell cinema and Stantonbury Campus school. Living on Peartree Bridge initially she became involved with Inter-Action projects and recalls specific events there. She comments that she now has her roots here: ‘you begin to realise … you are part of the place and you take it for what it is, warts and all’.
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