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A Show Goes On And It's Another Milestone (26 April 1974)

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The Milton Keynes Amateur Operatic society – formerly the Bletchley Amateur Operatic Society – reach a notable milestone this year. For Viva Mexico which they are beginning at Wilton Hall, Bletchley, on Saturday, May 4, will be their 21st annual production. Over the years the members have given many fine shows and I have reported them ...
A Big Crowd Today Is Trifling In Comparison (26 July 1974)

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Today, when I read there has been a “big crowd” at this or that local event, I wonder if it is generally realised what a big crowd really is in local terms. I have never seen a figure actually stated for a local event in recent years. I guess, however, that a figure of 5,000 ...
Just A Pennyworth - But A Revealing Read (3 October 1974)

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A week or two back I gave some advertising items from the Fenny Stratford Weekly Times of August 28, 1879, which I trust were not without interest. Now I turn to the paper’s local editorial content. It comprises only four-and-a-half columns on the back page of the four-page paper, but I personally find it a ...
Custom Goes Off With A Bang (8 November 1974)

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At mid-day next Monday, if all goes according to custom, six loud bangs will rend the air of Fenny Stratford. The bangs will be repeated at 2p.m. and again at 4p.m. After that there will be no more such bangs until the same times next year. The bangs will be made by the famous Fenny Poppers, ...
A Publican Who Sold Home Brew (6 June 1975)

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Occasionally there comes into the hands of local newspapers material which is of historical interest. This happened to the Gazette in 1949 through a letter from Mr E. Troughton, who lived at Weymouth, but who spent the first 19 years of his long life at Water Eaton in the 1870s and 1880s and who often ...
Soccer Violence Is Nothing New (26 September 1975)

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Over a period of many years I reported soccer at all levels from the second division of the Football League downwards. Curiously enough, I covered the game in that order; descending in the leagues, as it were, as time went by. Actually, my earliest years of football reporting were not concerned with soccer at all. Rugby ...
Guy Fawkes Fired We Guys (7 November 1975)

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In the early 1950’s, Bletchley Young Conservatives decided to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day with a special bonfire in a field off Drayton Road. A large amount of combustible material was collected and stacked and by November 4, all was ready for a good old beano on “The Fifth.” But during the night of the fourth, the ...
The Hard Up Christmases Gone By (19 December 1975)

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This Christmas most of us must perforce cut our expenditure on greeting cards and other forms of good cheer. Lest we should grouse too much at the decrease of affluence, however, I invite you to read part of an article which appeared in the old North Bucks Times at Christmas, 1946. Its writer was born ...
Movies - Part Of The Great American Myth (16 January 1976)

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The Tombstone Epitaph is dead. It died in 1975. It is a pity it did not last to 1976. For this is America’s Bicentennial Year and the Epitaph was the local newspaper for Tombstone, Arizona, where part of what has been called the Great American Myth was born. The Daily Express, reporting the death, said: “The ...
Art Or Not, Here's My Solution (31 December 1975)

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On the whole, 1975 has been a depressing year. It has, however, had its lighter aspects, one of which we are still undergoing. I refer, of course, to the design for an ornamental fountain for Stanier Square, Bletchley, put forward by Milton Keynes Development Corporation and to the reactions to it. Milton Keynes Borough Council called ...
Dancing With Death For 15 Or 20 Years ( 13 February 1976)

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No doubt many Bletchley people have been startled to learn how close they have been to sudden death or injury during the past 15 to 20 years. I refer, of course, to the recent discovery that the concrete beams in parts of Wilton Hall were in far worse shape than was suspected when the hall ...
May Day For Merry Making (16 April 1976)

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I like the idea of May Day becoming a public holiday again. For many centuries May Day holiday and merry making were customary throughout the land. Historically speaking, the custom has only recently died out, and country children continued to celebrate the day up to living memory. Even I, comparatively young as I am, can remember ...
Our Festival Fling (26 March 1976)

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Currently we are being reminded that this year sees the 25th anniversary of the Festival of Britain. It was quite an event, but my memory of what went on in Bletchley is somewhat mixed with the coronation celebrations which happened only two years later. I know that nationally by 1950 we had had about 11 years ...
Embarrassing Moment With The Queen (6 May 1976)

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Here’s a belated Health unto Her Majesty on passing her 50th birthday. May she have many more birthdays and on them be able to let her hair down, so to speak, more than on this occasion. There was a time when I would not have been so enthusiastic. As you know, I spent the early part ...
MPs or TUC - An Old Tale (14 May 1976)

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“Law and order is on trial and is being assailed by the forces of disorder. The country has got to decide whether it will be governed in future by the House of Commons, that is, by chosen representatives, or whether it prefers to hand over that government to the TUC.” Does that sound familiar? Actually it ...
A Festival Of Bygones (16 July 1976)

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In my article on the 1951 Festival of Britain celebrations in Bletchley I was able to make only a passing reference to the wonderful exhibition held by the Chamber of Trade at the Assembly Hall (now Wilton Hall) during that month. I will now remedy this, for to my mind the three-day exhibition was the ...
Short Shorts at Fenny's Own Mystery Marathon (6 August 1976)

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Women are fond of saying that men remain boys at heart, however old we become. I think that is true of most of us. What other explanation can there be for our continued interest in sport long after we ourselves have ceased to take an active part? After all, there is no real importance in, ...
Elephant And A Squashed Bentley (20 August 1976)

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As we are now into what we used to call the “silly season” I will content myself this week with telling a tale or two. The first concerns a dog named Towzer. He belonged to Mr Alfred Duffield, who with his brother Frank used to keep a men’s outfitting shop in Aylesbury Street, Fenny Stratford. One morning ...
Recreation In Perpetutity For Everyone (1 October 1976)

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August 7, 1899, was a red-letter day in the annals of Fenny Stratford, for it saw the opening of the Leon Recreation Ground to the public “in perpetuity for ever.” A crowd estimated at over 4,000 turned up for the event – a remarkable figure considering that the population of the Fenny urban council’s area, which ...
Hero Jim And The Runaway Train (22 October 1976)

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One April morning in 1909 Bletchley Railway Guard Jim Bates set forth on a routine trip that was to make him a national hero before the day was out. Jim was a middling-sized man, aged 45, and lived in St. Martin’s Street. He and his wife had several children and had just recently celebrated their silver ...
When The Killing Stopped (12 November 1976)

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In two or three days’ time it will be Remembrance Sunday. Curiously enough, when that day comes round my thoughts turn not so much to that war of 30-odd years ago in which I was personally involved as to the war of 20-odd years before that – the war of 1914-1918. How can that be? I ...
Night The Music Went Round And Round (14 January 1977)

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I apologise for the non-appearance of my usual odds and ends in last week’s Gazette. You see, I went to another part of the country for Christmas, thinking the paper would miss a week’s publication at Christmas, as it had done for several years past. But it did not miss, and I returned from holiday ...

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