Photographs taken by Iain Cawthorne of the designated area of Milton Keynes (c.1970s).
Photographs of the designated area of Milton Keynes taken in the early 1970s showing existing towns, villages, farms, fields, farmland and historic buildings all now developed or incorporated into the new town of Milton Keynes. Iain Cawthorne cycled around the area in the early 1970s taking photographs and plotting the location on a Milton Keynes map before the landscape changed with the growth of the new town.
Creator
Cawthorne, Iain
Extent
199 black and white 7" x 5" photographs
Reference number
SC ICC/001
Records in this Group
Looking from Old Bradwell railway bridge along railway lines Old Bradwell church Wolverton and Wolverton flats in distance
Old Bradwell 16th or 17th century Home Farmhouse with old Herald car shown in distance along deserted country road
Old Bradwell Home Farmhouse opposite terraced cottages with parked car and council houses in distance
Old Bradwell village road junction with yard and barns at rear of Home Farm, houses bench and notice board
Old Bradwell village green alongside lane with passing car farmhouse and farm buildings in background
Looking towards Old Bradwell from railway bridge leading to Bradwell Abbey Farm farm track and wheat fields in the foreground
Site of archaeological excavation at Old Bradwell looking across fields towards Bradwell Abbey Farm
View from Bradwell Abbey Farm across farmland towards Stacey Hill Farm and Wolverton in the distance
Wheatfields belonging to Bradwell Abbey Farm looking across towards Wolverton and the site of Greenleys Estate
Front view of Bradwell Abbey Farmhouse formerly part of a Benedictine Priory built by the Lord of Wolverton in 1154 view from farmyard with outbuildings alongside
Bradwell Abbey Farm farmhouse and outbuildings with barns in background field and track farm still in use
Bradwell Abbey 14th century chapel of Our Lady of Bradwell view from behind stonewall and field
Bradwell Abbey 14th century chapel surrounded by undergrowth railway overhead line in distance
Road through Old Bradwell from New Bradwell to Loughton with old farm buildings and house
Old Bradwell large brick built house of mid 19th century behind high brick wall with entrance set into the wall south side of Primrose Road
Derelict nursery gardens at Old Bradwell with rear view of Vicarage Road and pub
Derelict nursery gardens at Old Bradwell looking towards Bradwell Abbey
Vicarage Road Old Bradwell stone cottage and village pub on right behind tree
Old Bradwell village road with cottages either side and pub on left hand side in distance
Old Bradwell village group of cottages taken from road one thatched gardens in front
Old Bradwell pair of thatched stone cottages with front doors opening onto road in front east side of Loughton Road
Manor Farm Old Bradwell stone barn behind overgrown graveyard with gravestone barn now demolished
Old Bradwell Manor Farmhouse 17th century large stone built building in Church Lane now a Youth Hostel crawler tractor in field in foreground
Old Bradwell graveyard and corner of church and fields beyond
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We lived in fog cottages common lane loughton. Knocked down to build new station. IL try find photo.
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