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
Farmland around the Shopping Building under construction, with crops still growing, 1976.
Constructing the bridge over H6 Childs Way April 1977 – a crane is lowering a concrete block on to the structure. Preparation for the influx of visitors when the Shopping Building opened.
View over Lloyds Court car park with construction materials in the foreground, looking towards Linford Wood, May 1976.
Aerial view of the City Church site c.1988. The ancient ‘Common Lane’ can be seen crossing the site.
The dome of the City Church being craned into place, December 1990.
View of the City Church dome above the trees, seen from Saxon Gate in 2006.
Cladding the Shopping Building. A black and white image of builders silhouetted against the skeleton of the shopping building structure.
The first phase of the Shopping Building being constructed: October 1976. An aerial view from the east, showing the Shopping Building and Lloyds Court, and Silbury and Midsummer Boulevards.
The completed Shopping Building in 1980 viewed from the John Lewis car parks..
View from part of the Shopping Building under construction in 1976 on high ground, looking towards Bow Brickhill, July 1976.
A photographic rendering of Helmut Jacoby’s 1972 vision of CMK as it would be in 1990. An aerial view from the east including a helicopter flying over the Park in the foreground.
An MKDC advertisement for the opening of the Shopping Building in 1979. The headline is ‘Only Six Days to Go’ above an image of many different staff who will be working in the building. The text advertises some of the shops which will be opening in the building and describes it as ‘one of Europe’s ...
Image of a display of prototype street furniture for the Shopping Building: a wooden bench, ash tray, wastepaper bin and an advertising board.
Alan Ashton was MKDC’s Chief Estates Officer from 1970 until his death in 1977.
MKDC Commercial Director from 1977-1983, who took over from Alan Ashton after his death.
The structural steelwork of the Shopping Building, 1975.
An evening view of the exterior of part of the Shopping Building in 1979 showing the trees and two porte-cochères.
A night-time view of Queen’s Court Pool in 1980, with the fountains playing.
Helmut Jacoby’s rendering of an interior courtyard at Lloyds Court.
A team meeting: (l to r) Philip Murphy (Quantity Surveyor), Peter Hadley (Commercial Surveyor), Ivan Pickles (Architect), Alan Simpson (Graphic Designer), Douglas Burcham (Financial Accountant).
Photograph of the early stages of erection of part of the Shopping Building steelwork.
A view of part of the cladded exterior of the Shopping Building in 1977.
The Shopping Building Arcades under construction. (a) Shopping Building steelwork in November 1976.
The Shopping Building Arcades under construction. (b) View of the interior with cladding under way in June 1977.
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