Interview with Zena Flinn (b.1951).
Zena Flinn moved to Newport Pagnell in 1958 with her parents. Since her marriage, she has lived in Stony Stratford for about thirty years. She describes her employment, including administrator for Living Archive, and the Wolverton Community Centre. She talks of her first memories about plans for Milton Keynes and her reactions to it. During MK’s development she recalls the early TV adverts and in particular the red balloon advert, in which her son took part.
In her opinion MK has been a friendly place to live. She has enjoyed meeting incomers from other places, and talks of increased opportunities for work, improved shopping and amenities and facilities for children. She remembers the hospital campaign and the big red question mark: ‘Once the city centre and the hospital were built you felt that everything was here in Milton Keynes then.’ The less successful aspects are some of the estates – ‘the ones that had the strangest buildings’. Positive aspects of MK in her opinion are access to parkland, regular trains to London, the Theatre, Xscape and other entertainment, and plenty of employment. On traffic she comments: ‘if you go to other cities and you sit at endless sets of traffic lights then you really appreciate the roundabouts’.
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