Interview with Isaac Fiscian Blay.
Isaac Fiscian Blay was born in Ghana. He has been in Milton Keynes for about 27 years now. He talks of his college and University studies, early jobs, and meeting his wife when he worked at London Transport. They chose MK in order to get better housing; he remembers being shown round the city in its early stages of development. They chose to move to Netherfield, and were delighted with the house. He recalls help from the Milton Keynes Development Corporation with vouchers for bulbs, plants and flowers. They were the first black couple to move into a new MK estate, but everyone was very friendly. Commuting to London to work was difficult and tiring, so he found a job in Bletchley with Cole White Stevenson. In the early days he recalls difficulties with shopping and transport, but they found Dial-A Bus useful.
In his opinion MK, is a good place to bring up children, the schools and facilities are good. He talks of his involvement with the Church and with the building of Christ the Cornerstone; he met the Queen at the opening service. He was one of the founders of the local Ghanaian Association. Nowadays he thinks people in MK are not quite as friendly as when it was a smaller place. In his opinion it is expanding … ‘very fast, too fast’; but he would never move back to London.
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