Images used in the book 'The Story of the original CMK'
Images illustrating the various stages of the planning and development of Central Milton Keynes by Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC), from 1966 to 1992, together with more recent images up to 2007.
Extent
153 scanned photographs and drawings
Reference number
CMK/002
Records in this Group
John Donat’s photograph of the building model of the Gallery in Park.
The image shows chairs and bags placed on a central reservation, and four boules players. A few boules are scattered on the gravel.
”Diagrams… are the things that come out clean’ (Stuart Mosscrop). Plan of the City Centre from ‘The Planning of Milton Keynes, MKDC 1992. The diagram identifies, using colour, the following areas within the City Centre grid: Entertainment, Business, Shopping, Civic and Transport. Campbell Park is outlined in green.
Philip Castle’s colourful poster of activities at the proposed City Club. It portrays the Club as offering a huge range of activities from sports to balloon flights, circuses and music.
Photograph of canal boats moored on the Grand Union Canal in Campbell Park, CMK.
An aerial montage of the City Centre model placed on the land to be acquired in order to build it.
The East end of early Shopping Building construction in 1975, showing Lloyds Court on the left of the picture. The line of Secklow Gate goes to the east of Lloyds Court.
Walter Ismay was MKDC’s first Managing Director; he is pictured in 1971.
Jock Campbell, MKDC Chairman, and Fred Roche, MKDC General Manager from 1971, in 1975. They are pictured with a large map of the designated area behind them.
CMK Shopping Building site pre-construction in 1975. This image simply shows some cleared land with various vehicle tracks across it, surrounded by fields and hedges.
Milton Keynes Development Corporation Board members at an early Board meeting in 1971. Those pictured include (from left) Peter Wilcox, James Cassidy, Walter Ismay, Evelyn De Rothschild (Deputy Chairman), Lord Campbell (chairman), Fred Roche (General Manager), Ray Bellchambers, Margaret Durbridge.
Derek Walker, MKDC Chief Architect and Planning Officer, is pictured in discussion with one of the MKDC model-makers c.1974.
Frank Henshaw pictured in 1987 during the time he was MKDC General Manager (1980-1992).
Stuart (Chief Architect for CMK) is pictured at the topping out ceremony for Lloyds Court July 1975
An advertisement for staff for the Milton Keynes implementation teams, placed in the issue of Building Design on 28 March 1975. Staff required were architects, architectural technicians and landscape architects, and a divisional engineer for the central area.
The CMK Team at a Wavendon Tower ‘boulevard’ , 1974. Front row (l to r) Gay Routledge, Derek Walker, Trevor Denton, Ken Baker, Ian Smith, Christopher Woodward.
Lloyds Court under construction in 1976
View of the interior courtyard of Lloyds Court.
City Centre plan 1980 from the railway station (l) to the belvedere of Campbell Park, showing ten proposed zones for shopping, business, professional use, law courts, police station, etc.
The Shopping Building under construction in 1977, viewed from the south – the fields in the foreground are now covered by Oldbrook.
‘We found the ditch round the mound’ (Tony Southard). Drawing by Eugene Fisk in 1981 showing the site of the Seckloe Hundred mound at the edge of the car parking behind the library. The Library and city centre housing can be seen in the background.
The full extent of the Shopping Building as seen from the south, from the Fishermead pedestrian bridge in 1981.
A night-time view of Milton Keynes Central Station looking downwards and across Station Square. Housing in Loughton can be seen behind the station building.
Newly planted trees amongst Shopping Building construction – spring 1977. The service road on Secklow Gate can be seen in the background.
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