Interview with Michael Kelly (b.1958).
Michael Kelly and his family moved to Milton Keynes in 1973 from London, when his father’s job moved from London Bridge to Potter’s Bar. They first rented a house from the Milton Keynes Development Corporation in Fullers Slade,and in 1975 his parents bought a new house in Eaglestone. Aged fifteen, he remembers being resentful of moving to Milton Keynes, but he settled quickly at Radcliffe School. After school he applied for an apprenticeship with the MKDC, wanting to do outdoor work. He completed a four year landscaping apprenticeship in Aylesbury and then worked in Milton Keynes for five years on the ‘forward landscaping gang’ based in Greenleys, planting trees, shrubs and some landscaping. He feels amazement now when seeing how tall the twigs that he planted have grown. After five years of working for MKDC he left and found employment as a tractor driver, a school gardener and at the institute of Groundsmanship at Woughton for four to five years. He is pleased that he moved to Milton Keynes and remarks that it is the ‘Best thing that could’ve happened to me. I like the place!’
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