Interview with Janice Walker (b.1947).
Janice Walker moved to Bletchley in 1968 because of her husband’s career move. She applied for a job with the Milton Keynes Development Corporation and became a supervisor for the Punch Card Room, working at the office in Wavendon Tower for two years. She left the MKDC to work for the Open University, but after leaving to have and bring up a child, returned to MKDC as a secretary in 1978. In this job she provided secretarial assistance to a variety of departments, which gave her insight into the overal operation. She comments on the huge changes she saw in MKDC when she went back in 1978 and the progress made with the building and social development of Milton Keynes. After the restructuring of MKDC she moved from Commerce into Planning and was involved with producing maps of Milton Keynes. She thinks that her attitude towards Milton Keynes is different to most people because of her employment at the MKDC:’ I think that because of being involved with the Corporation, Milton Keynes is most probably a bigger part of my life, and everybody that worked there, than say the average person that lives here.’
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