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Week 29: A GLANCE FROM A TRAIN

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For this week’s Wolverton On Film Brad Bradstock and Eric Thompson create a lockdown version of their show A Glance From A Train. Funny and poignant, A Glance from a Train is a very different kind of show. It tells the true story of a community faced with traumatic upheaval including two World Wars. And just ...
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 7 - Toilets and Backways

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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 outside toilets and the pranks he and other children played on unsuspecting occupants.
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 ...
One Of Those Good Old Summers (28 August 1975)

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One day during the recent hot spell I was in a works canteen. It was hotter there than in the works and I admit I felt suitably frizzled. Three or four lads in their late teens and early 20s came in. They were puffing and blowing. Then another chap who could not have been older ...
So Much For Hard Times Of 1975 (5 September 1975)

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In my article last week on the summer weather I mentioned that according to one source of information 1921 was the driest year this century, with a rainfall of only about half the norm. I have special cause to remember that long warm summer, for my father was a coal miner and that year saw the ...
Paying A Penny To Repair Bully (10 October 1975)

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Some recent notes in this column have stirred memories and people have kindly got in touch with me to tell me so. One is Mr Wal Pacey, of Bletchley, who was reminded of the celebrations held at Tolpuddle, in 1934, the hundredth anniversary of the Martyrs’ transportation to Australia. In the decades since the war Wal has ...
Those Years Of Setting Up House On Dockets (27 February 1976)

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In July, 1948, the local butchers’ association issued a poster. This stated that “owing to the recent reduction in the fresh meat ration and the lack of publicity from official quarters in regard thereto,” they felt it necessary themselves to announce to the public that: “The total ration per adult book per week is: fresh meat ...

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