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Oral history audio recording of Jack Rowledge (b.1905).

ALC/003

Interview covering working conditions and management at McCorquodales print works from 1918. Family life, outings and events in Wolverton.
Oral history audio recordings of George Boddington (1906-1986).

ALC/004

Three interviews referring to documents and memorabilia relating to the Post Office at McCorquodales the printers. Early family history, war service and social events in Wolverton.
That Reminds Me

TRM

That Reminds Me was a weekly column published in the Bletchley Gazette from January 1973 to December 1978. Originally from Yorkshire, Harold (Heppy) Hepworth had worked on The Gazette for twenty years. He preferred to describe himself as a reporter, though his title was officially Leader Writer or Assistant Editor. Later, we believe after his retirement, ...
Miners Have Always Been The Salt of The Earth (9 February 1973)

TRM/006

MINERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE SALT OF THE EARTH One day my father said: “How’d you like to be a journalist?” “What’s that?” I asked, in all innocence and ignorance. I am not sure I know the full answer yet. There are almost as many sorts of journalists as there are sorts of men and women. But I ...
Week 34: SILVER JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS 1977

WOF/035

Another film from Alan Herring showing celebrations around Wolverton for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. It mainly focuses on the event in Bushfield School field organised by residents in Stacey Avenue. Older Wolverton residents may recognise some older characters, including Syd Dytham and Harold Nutt.
Headmaster Started The Ball Rolling For Town Cricket (22 June 1973)

TRM/025

By coincidence I watched the final stage of the New Zealanders’ great fight-back against England at Trent Bridge with 84-year-old Mr. Ernest Cook at his bungalow home in Buckingham Road, Bletchley. Nothing much in that, perhaps. Nothing except that it was occasional Yorkshire county cricketer, Mr. Cook, who called the meeting that formed the Bletchley Town ...
If A Ghostly Cricket Umpire Walks The H10 (17 August 1973)

TRM/033

In 1951 Mr. Harry Beckett, of Poplars Farm, Simpson, father of Mr “Bob” Beckett, gave me a piece of pink cardboard about the size of a railway ticket. On it was printed: “All England Eleven v. Twenty-two of the County of Bucks, at Fenny Stratford, June 10, 1859. Admission ticket, one shilling. Not transferable.” I ...
I Do Not Describe Myself As A Reporter From Modesty (24 August 1973)

TRM/034

During my newspaper life it has been my duty to write hundreds, perhaps thousands, of so-called leaders or opinion columns. You might think “Gosh, what power! What a chance to influence events!” and so on. All I can say is that for most of the time I would have been happier to make no comment ...
Getting To Know Newcomers - 20 Years Ago (2 November 1973)

TRM/044

September marked the 21st anniversary of the arrival of the first “Londoners” in Bletchley under the town expansion scheme. The Saints Estate was the first to be built for the scheme and early in September, 1952, the key to the door of 3 St. Andrew’s Road was handed to Mr. Arthur Attwell, who had come with ...
A Show Goes On And It's Another Milestone (26 April 1974)

TRM/064

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 ...
Costless Games The Children Used To Play (28 June 1974)

TRM/073

What games do children play today around the streets and on spare patches of grass? I see pavements marked for hop-scotch. I also see girls skipping with a long rope swung by a girl at each end. But apart from that I see little to remind me of the improvised and nearly costless games of ...
A Big Crowd Today Is Trifling In Comparison (26 July 1974)

TRM/077

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)

TRM/087

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)

TRM/092

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)

TRM/121

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)

TRM/136

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)

TRM/142

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)

TRM/148

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 ...
Our Festival Fling (26 March 1976)

TRM/161

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 ...
MPs or TUC - An Old Tale (14 May 1976)

TRM/168

“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 ...
Short Shorts at Fenny's Own Mystery Marathon (6 August 1976)

TRM/180

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)

TRM/182

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)

TRM/188

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)

TRM/190

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 ...