The MK People's Stories - a Museum for a New City Project
A Museum For A New City is a project intended to help to shape the new permanent exhibition in MK Museum’s New Gallery, telling the story of how Milton Keynes was planned and built. The Museum wanted to know what people who call Milton Keynes home want to see, learn and discover. As the Museum was founded by local residents they felt that its future should be determined by local residents.
As part of the project Living Archive MK recorded filmed interviews with local residents to capture their stories and memories of life in Milton Keynes in order to help tell the “People’s Story”.
The project was made possible with support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
To view the digital stories created as part of this project visit our You Tube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@LivingArchiveMK
Creator
Living Archive MK in collaboration with MK Museum
Place
MIlton Keynes and surrounding areas
Reference number
MNC
Records in this Collection
She was born in the 1980s in Pakistan and moved to Buckingham from Saudi Arabia ten months before the interview (i.e. late 2023). The move was made because her daughter had got a place at the university there and, not being a driver, she needed to be close to places of education for her three ...
She was born in the United States in 2006. She moved to Buckingham about ten months before the interview (i.e. late 2023) when she got a place at the University to study medicine. She visited Milton Keynes very often for shopping, going out with friends and for university placements.
She didn’t know much about Milton Keynes ...
Gulfraz was born in Aylesbury in 1968. He spent most of his childhood in Pakistan and returned to England, to Sheffield, in 1984. After his schooling, his father moved them to Aylesbury because there were better job opportunities. He worked for relatives in London, but had serious chest infections and gave it up. He started ...
A joint interview with Gill Bryan.
Barbara Mayor and Gill Bryan talk about their involvement with supporting the Afghani women who were brought to Harben House, Newport Pagnell from 2021-2022. Initially the aim was to teach them about the British way of life, but despite the use of translators, this was difficult. In connection with a ...
Blake Antwi was born in London in 1994. He was 18 when his father moved the family to Milton Keynes. He noticed it was quieter than London, with more trees and with horse manure smells. He went to College in Watford, then to University, then into Teacher Training and then to work as an Art ...
Doreen was born in London in 1961. The family moved to the Lakes Estate in April 1971. She had never lived in a house or had a garden before, but she didn’t like the quiet at night. She and her father were made ill by the ‘blow heat’ heating.
There was nothing to do when she ...
Toni Harrison, born in Vietnam, moved to Biggleswade, UK and then to Milton Keynes in the early 1990s, at the age of 18/19. Identifying as a Black Lesbian, she says: ‘there wasn’t much of …a Lesbian scene’. The Open University had a gay event once a month and there was also a monthly women’s disco ...
Manny was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1992 and moved to the Uk when he was a child; his family settled in MK in 2006; his initial impression was of how peaceful it was. He attended St Pauls Roman Catholic school. Milton Keynes was the first place he felt like he fitted in. He talks ...
Osazeme Osaghae was born in September 1995, in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Whilst he was growing up, he lived in Germany and Switzerland; he came to Milton Keynes whilst doing GCSEs. Before he came, he had heard that MK was an up-and-coming city, but also quite green. He was impressed by the sense of innovation and ...
Taryn Field was born in 1976 born in Plymouth, but grew up in Israel and South Africa, where both of her parents were from. She returned to the UK, moving to Milton Keynes, when she was 19. She lived in a community in Winslow for about 13 years with her husband and children, before she ...
Peter Kingham was born in 1972. He grew up in Moulsoe, where his father was a farmer, and now lives in Wolverton, where he enjoys the great sense of community. He now works for the Foreign Office, at Hanslope Park, where he runs LGBT network.
As a gay man, Peter has been a part of Q: ...
A summary of this interview is not available as it was conducted in Pashto.
An audio file of the interview can be made available on request.
There is no summary of this interview available as it was conducted in Pashto, but an audio file can be made available on request.
There is no summary of this interview available as it was conducted in Pashto, but an audio file can be made available on request.
There is no summary of this interview available as it was conducted in Pashto, but an audio file can be made available on request.
Mohammed was born in Pakistan in 1958 and graduated in medicine in Pakistan in 1986. He moved to the UK in 1990 and got his Fellowship with the Royal College of Surgeons in 1995. He returned to Pakistan as an Assistant Professor at a Teaching Hospital but returned to the UK a year after getting ...
Johnny was born in Battersea in 1945 and brought up from 12 to 15½ in a children’s home. He was a professional wrestler and moved to Milton Keynes, to Fishermead, in 1976 because it was more convenient for northern venues. He became licensee of The Bow Bells on the Lakes Estate in May 1983, after ...
Chris was born in Bletchley Hospital in 1986. His father worked for Milton Keynes Development Corporation and his first home, in Great Linford, trialled solar energy. He went to school in Bedford and was a member of an Emo band, ‘Cut in Quarters’, which played at Zak’s, The Pitz and Esquires in Bedford.
He started in ...
Lincoln Bedeau came to the UK in 1973 as a child, from the West Indies. His father, a teacher, had to retrain and took labouring jobs while studying; when offered a job in CMK with accommodation, the family moved to Bradville in MK. At primary school, Lincoln was the only black child, but he got ...
Amna was born in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1977. She moved to Milton Keynes in 2022 after visiting it and being impressed with the centre, the family activities and the parks. She was a trained artist and had just completed her Foundation in Art Therapy at Hertfordshire University. She had met other artists, including Salvation artists, ...
Hala was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1964. She moved to the UK in 2004. She visited Milton Keynes when her husband became a locum surgeon at the Hospital. The family liked the bigger shops and Willen Lake. She was reminded of Houston, Texas. When he was offered a full-time post (circa 2019) they moved. ...
Izza was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1982. She moved to the UK when she married in 2006. They lived in London and struggled to buy there, so moved to Milton Keynes in 2016. She had family in Toronto and Milton Keynes reminded her of there. They moved to Fairfields which was very quiet. Stony ...
Paige was born in 1994 in Milton Keynes. Growing up, she enjoyed ice skating and going to local parks. She also remembers Activity Land, a children’s soft play/trampoline place. She went away to university in Winchester, and then to Manchester to do her teaching degree.
She has worked at the Radcliffe School since 2019. She doesn’t ...
She was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1982. She moved to Milton Keynes with her family in 2018 at the suggestion of a friend and for the sports activities, especially cricket. In 2020 they moved to Buckingham for the children’s schooling.
Her husband played cricket for Westcroft and she went to most of the cricket grounds, ...
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