The Milton Keynes Project Slide Show 1970
This set of photographic slides were taken by the late Mr Ronald Sullivan and the late Mr Alan Sanders of Wolverton who were members of the Wolverton Cine & Slide Club. The set of 216 slides and the accompanying commentary was known as “The Milton Keynes Project”. In 1969/1970 it was decided that a photographic record of the towns and villages in the designated area of Milton Keynes should be started as soon as possible before the construction began.
Extent
216 photographic slides and 27 documents
Contributor
Mrs Edith Sullivan
Reference number
SFC/001
Storage location
SFC box in the Hut, Slide Boxes 1 and 2
Records in this Group
Field with pigs in foreground, field of sheep behind and, on the right, Shenley Park House, formerly known as Shenley House. Possibly built in 1805 by the Knapp family, later owned by the Selby Lowndes and then Lord Cadman.
Dutch barn in Shenley area storing hay
Rusting farming equipment – a harrowing rake – in a field.
Northern entrance to Stony Stratford High Street with road sign on the left. On the right is the former Barley Mow Inn, probably built as a hostelry in the 18th century, now mostly 19th century.
Plaque on the wall of No.157 High Street Stony Stratford. The inscription reads: Near this spot stood the cross erected by King Edward the 1st to mark the place in Stony Stratford where the body of Queen Eleanor rested on its way from Harby in Nottingham to Westminster Abbey in 1290.
A view of Stony Stratford High Street, looking north from the junction with Wolverton Road.
The Cock Hotel in Stony Stratford High Street. A mid eighteenth century building, fronted in brick, three storeys.
The Bull Hotel in Stony Stratford High Street. An early nineteenth centyury building with cobbled carriageway to stables in the rear.
The Tower of St Mary Magdalen, former parish church of east Stony Stratford. A 15th century stone building, the church was a casualty of the great fire of 1742. The tower was saved from demolition by the intervention of Browne Willis. The graveyard was extended over the building area after the fire and was in ...
Restaurant and houses, formerly St Paul’s School and later Fegan’s Homes for homeless children. It had also been a cigar manufactory and a convent of Franciscan friars. Built 1863-5 by Goldie and Childe for Rev W T Sankey; an imposing building of local stone with brick dressings in a German Gothic style. The gateway bears ...
Houses in the former St Paul’s School. It was for a time Fegan’s Homes for homeless children. It had also been a cigar manufactory and a convent of Franciscan friars. Built in Gothic style, 1863-5 by Goldie and Childe for Rev W T Sankey.
The former Cross Keys Inn in Stony Stratford High Street, later a restaurant and other retail businesses. The building retains the earliest external visible feature in the town, dating from the 16th century.
The Retreat – four almshouses behind Stony Stratford High Street. Built in 1892 of brick and stone. In one wall there are two fireplace lintels and a small ogee leaded light, all recovered from the former guildhouse of St Mary which stood on this site.
Market Square in Stony Stratford, with the old elm tree known as the Wesley Tree, named after the evangelist John Wesley who preached near it in the late 1700s. To the right of the tree is The Crown public house, a 17th and 18th century building, and to the left is an 18th ...
Derelict buildings on Market Square in Stony Stratford. These were demolished and replaced in the 1970s by the library.
Number 40 Church Street, Stony Stratford. An eighteenth century brick house with nineteenth century alterations, built after the great fire of 1736. In the centre, above the door, is a wooden sundial.
Close up of the wooden sundial dated April 17 1739 on the front wall of number 40 Church Street, Stony Stratford. The maker’s initials are H.A. and an inscription reads: “Tempus et ignis omnia perdunt” which translated means “Time and Fire destroy all things”.
The Plough Inn at the corner of London Road and Wolverton Road. Originally St Mary’s Church School built in 1873 by Edward Swinfen Harris of rock-faced limestone with brick facings. Converted to a public house in 1937. Note the replica horse-drawn plough atop the pub sign.
Road sign on Old Wolverton Road
Wolverton Mill viewed from the south. Later 18th to late 19th century buildings. Said to be on the site of Wolverton West Mill, first recorded in the 11th century.
Wolverton Mill viewed from the north with the River Great Ouse in the foreground.
Holy Trinity Church, Old Wolverton. Built in 1809-14 by Henry Hawkwell.
Holy Trinity Church, Old Wolverton, said to incorporate the two lower stages of a medieval tower.
Relief feature of a grotesque face on a wall of the stair turret in Holy Trinity Church, Old Wolverton.
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