Interview with Brian O'Sullivan (b.1947).
Brian O’Sullivan moved to Milton Keynes in 1972 as a newly wed, having been offered a job and house by the local council. He describes the MIlton Keynes landscape in the early days, with mud all around and only one new road open. When he left his council job, he worked for a Civil Engineering Company, and was employed on projects such as Windmill Golf Course housing, underground tunnelling for Milton Keynes, and Tinkers Bridge housing. By 1974 he was working for Anglian Water, in connection with the Milton Keynes Development Corporation, being involved with the drainage and the balancing lakes, working at Willen lake. He then became a Clerk of Works and was involved with bridge at the bridge at the shopping centre that goes over the market in Central Milton Keynes and came up with the idea of drainage channels in the pond at Campbell Park. His favourite architectural features in Milton Keynes are the train station, shopping centre and the road system. He remarks: ‘I think it’s a fantastic place. I owe Milton Keynes a lot, I’ve worked my life in Milton Keynes, I’ve enjoyed working in Milton Keynes,… there’s some fantastic people here.’
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