You are here: Home>Search Search Currently displaying: 10 results You've searched for: Subject: "Domestic life" xSubject: "Wolverton" x Search term Filter by Collection All Change (1)Hawtin's Tales (1)The Wolverton On Film Collection (4) Filter by Format Audio Visual (9) Filter by Subject Wolverton Works (1)Working conditions (2)1900s-1940s (2)Local characters (6)Wolverton (10)McCorquodales (1)Family (2)Women at work (1)Sports (1)Events (5)Allotments (2)Domestic life (10)Health (1)Trade (1)Co-operative society (1) Filter by Decade 1960s (1)1970s (1)2000s (1)2010s (1) Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest 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. Week 23: AFLOAT WITH SUCCESS WOF/024 From 1963 to 1976, the annual carnival was an important feature of Wolverton’s summer. Eye-witnesses and participants share their memories of these events, illustrated by film footage shot at the time. If you enjoyed watching this film please consider clicking on the link below to make a £1 donation and help us make lots more films ... Week 19: OUR TRAM WOF/020 This film was made some years ago by the late Chris Bellchambers, son of the late Ray Bellchambers. Chris was a professional film-maker and he made this film at the special request of his Dad. It tells the story of the Wolverton to Stony Stratford tram. Our Tram is part of the Wolverton on Film 6 ... Week 29: A GLANCE FROM A TRAIN WOF/030 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 28: SHOPPING IN WOLVERTON WOF/029 This film was made for children at Bushfield School to explain how shopping has changed over the years in Wolverton. Week 35: NOBBY’S LAST RUN WOF/036 September 5th 1964 saw the closure of the Nobby Newport train line as a result of the Beeching Plan. It had run between Newport Pagnell and Wolverton since 1867. We are lucky that back in the 60s, 70s and 80s Alan Herring had an 8mm cine camera and recorded significant local events. But the films were ... Week 41: SHOPPING AS IT USED TO BE - THE HISTORY OF THE CO-OP IN WOLVERTON WOF/044 At one point there were 13 different Co-op stores in Wolverton selling groceries, furniture, meat, shoes, clothes, hardware, radios and TVs – just about anything you would need to live. This film tells the story of this shopping phenomenon. Week 56: A GLIMPSE OF WOLVERTON WOF/059 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. Week 57: BRITAIN IN BLOOM 2008 WOF/060 Wolverton and Greenleys decided to enter the Britain in Bloom competition in 2007. This film was made for the judges visiting in the second year 2008. It’s great to see that key environmental projects mentioned then – the Secret Garden, the Community Orchard and the Urb Farm, are still thriving today. Hawtin's Tales 6: Polly Parrot HAW/006 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 Scottie Edwards’ parrot.