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See our Home Front online exhibition here

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Welcome to our online exhibition about life on the Home Front in the local area during World War II. Click on the downloadable PDF to have a look at words and images from local people as they talk about their lives and experiences during this time, as now we celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE ...
See Fred Bavey's film of a VE Day street party in Wolverton here

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Watch Fred Bavey’s film of a street party in Wolverton (possibly Aylesbury Street?) here!
Week 17: EVACUEE MEMORIES

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On May 8th 2020 we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. In 2002 the late Eve Swannell talked to children at Bushfield School about her experience of coming to the area as an evacuee in 1939. Evacuee Memories is part of the Wolverton on Film 4 DVD, which ...
Week 56: A GLIMPSE OF WOLVERTON

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This film was made specially for a screening at a street party in Cambridge Street in 2013 as part of the 175th anniversary of the first train stopping at Wolverton Station in 1838.
Hawtin's Tales: To Be A Soldier - From Training Into Battle

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Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories of finishing his training as a solider in the First World War and going ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...