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Personal Photographs.

TBC/015

A miscellaneous collection of family photographs, birthday and Christmas cards from the 20th century.
St Georges Church.

TBC/012

Photographs, newspaper articles and programmes relating to events involving the family and St. George’s Church. The Taylor-Brown family were involved in many of the activities run by St. George’s church, Frank Harry Brown sang with their choir, the brotherhood, for over 70 years and went with them to the Empire Day concert held for ...
Miscellaneous documents and objects.

TBC/014

A miscellaneous collection of photographs, diaries, family letters, newspapers and documents relating to various members of the Taylor-Brown family including family trees for the Brown family. There are also items related to the funeral of King Edward VII and the coronation of Edward VIII, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. In addition ...
Eric Mobbs Collection

EMC

A collection of Royal Family Postcards, Wolverton Works and McCorquodales photographs and local miscellaneous leaflets which all belonged to Eric Mobbs
General Strike

GST

‘General Strike’ is a collection of 12 oral history audio recordings relating to the 1926 General Strike and the lives of the interviewees in the years before and after. Topics include the General Strike, Wolverton Works, McCorquodales, World War One and World War Two.
Mrs Dickens (c.1900-2000): oral history audio recording.

GST/001

[To be added].
Fred Church (1911-c.2000): oral history audio recording.

GST/002

[To be added].
Harry Winsor (1920-c.2010): oral history audio recording.

GST/003

[To be added].
Elsie Ada Sinfield (1905-c.2000): oral history audio recording.

GST/004

EAS’s childhood home backed on to the Wolverton Works’ Laundry and the children used to talk to the laundresses, who included her sister-in-law, through the railings. Her brother George worked for the Stony Stratford Ambulance and joined the Royal Medical Corps at the start of World War One. He served in Egypt and, whilst there, ...
Viva Chappill (1905-c.2000): oral history audio recording.

GST/005

[To be advised].
Eric Bellchambers (1908-c.2000): oral history audio recording part 1.

GST/006

[To be added].
Eric Bellchambers (1908-c.2000): oral history audio recording part 2.

GST/007

To be added.
Percy Mundy (1908-c.2000): oral history audio recording.

GST/008

When PM was a child, there was no place called New Bradwell, just Stanton High, Stanton Low and Stantonbury. The old club in New Bradwell remained the Stantonbury Social Club. There was another club called the Progressive Club. He remembered the Hospital Fetes, which had “marvellous” processions of vehicles and the boys and girls dressed ...
Ivy Johnson (1922-c.2010) & Catherine Ager (c.1920-2010): oral history audio recording.

GST/009

IJ’s father and grandfather continued to work through the General Strike, whilst their neighbours did not. She remembered a horseshoe being thrown over the wall into their premises and also a neighbour telling her that her father was being “set upon”. Also in the twenties, she remembered young boys taking lunches to their Fathers at ...
William May (1914-c.2000): oral history audio recording.

GST/010

New Bradwell was known as “Little Moscow”. It was socialist and militant, but not in a violent sense. The people worked well together for hospital funds, carnivals and the like. The one divide was religion, between Church of England, Methodist and Baptist. They did not mix, but this was not carried over into work. WM’s father, ...
Eva Hall (1902-c.2000) and Betty Hall (1904-c.2000) Hall: oral history audio recording.

GST/011

The sisters’ aunt was 1 of the first 9 employees when McCorquodales started in Wolverton (1878). They worked in a disused railway carriage producing envelopes: the men cutting shapes and the women folding and gluing. As children, they received 3d pocket money. Sweets cost 1d per 2 ounces and bananas were 2d each. They received a ...
Eric Baldwin (1921-c.2010): oral history audio recording.

GST/012

The Assistant Master and Assistant Matron looked after the inmates’ welfare, set them to their tasks and did general administration. Inmates had to work for their keep. Men worked in the garden, the field and kept pigs, supervised by EB’s father. Women worked in the laundry and kitchen and did cleaning, largely supervised by staff ...
Marriages.

TBC/005

Collection of newspaper articles, photographs and documents relating to various weddings and wedding anniversaries in the Taylor Brown family. The majority of the material relates to the wedding of Frank Harry Brown to Beryl Louise Taylor in 1939.
Bridge Street, decorated, with street party

SMC/007/026

Bridge Street, decorated, with street party (on the back is written Ray Bellchambers, Bridge St.)
Bridge Street, decorated

SMC/007/028

Bridge Street, decorated. (On the back is written Bridge St.)
Bridge Street, decorated, with street party

SMC/007/029

Bridge Street, decorated, with street party (on the back is written Bridge St. Bill West).
Trophy on display in the street

SMC/007/031

Trophy on display in the street
The Foresters Arms, decorated with bunting

SMC/007/042

The Foresters Arms, decorated with bunting. (On the back is written Mrs West)
Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Train Line, Bradwell Station.

SMC/009/001

Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Train Line, Bradwell Station. (on the back is written LAST TRAIN W. MAY)