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
Blossoming trees outside the Shopping Building May 1978.
Andrew Mahaddie’s design for a glass bridge in the proposed City Park.
Plane trees lining a central reservation in CMK in autumn.
View of the Theatre and the thickly planted shrubbery on the edges of V8 grid road, from the pedestrian bridge over the road.
The CMK Oak Tree, once outside the Shopping Building – now surrounded by Midsummer Place (intu MK) shopping.
MK citizens sledging down the Belvedere in Campbell Park in the snow of February 2007.
Originally named City Park, as here in 1982, Campbell Park was designed as an essential component of City Centre from the start. The Shopping Building can be seen in the distance behind the fountain in the pool in the foreground.
The Shopping Building shortly before opening, in May 1979.
The exterior of the Shopping Building photographed in Summer 2006.
The Shopping Building’s steel body structure April 1976.
The Shopping Building’s steel body structure: an interior view April 1976
View of the exterior of the Shopping Building November 1976
View of the exterior of the Shopping Building November 1976
Image of the building highlighting the white steel columns, Summer 1978.
The CMK team visit Boulton and Paul Steelworks in Middlesbrough c.1975 to determine the steel specification for the columns.
Glass detail on the Shopping Building.
The iconic Shopping Building glass façade; an early evening picture with reflections of trees and sunset in the glass.
Customers in Middleton Hall, open for business.
A table tennis match being played in Middleton Hall’s early years, with seating for spectators on all four sides.
The Garden Court – to be renamed Queen’s Court after the Royal visit – under construction in 1978.
The original West End facade of the reflecting a wood copse incorporated in the design of the original large open square at the end of the Shopping Building, April 1976.
Approach to the Shopping Building from Secklow Gate.
Secklow Gate rising to the Shopping Building’s first floor level for access to the service road.
A view along the service road.
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