Funded by a ‘Your Heritage’ Lottery grant in 2007 this project collected personal testimonies, photographs and memorabilia to document the ...
Milton Keynes Dons History
It wasn’t until I did some research that I learnt that right from the very beginning of ...
An unusual story of wartime rationing
Bletchley is probably about as landlocked as it gets but throughout the 1970s I was a member of Bletchley Sea ...
Origins of the local Salvation Army
On January 2, 1956, my career in the printing industry started at Bletchley Printers – if only I had a ...
My name is Colin Scott, I was born on the 28th March 1936 and lived with my parents in Manor ...
In the mid-1930s the Bletchley Town surveyor, Mr Arthur Bates, designed the Central Gardens; these were described as a ‘pleasant ...
About Us
The Bletchley Community Heritage project began in March 2000 and is inspired by the lives of local people and ...
There was a local builder called Pat Coady and a very energetic treasurer, a gentleman called Ted Sherry. These two ...
My brother in law… my sister married a railwayman, he was a signalman and he said why don’t you try ...
‘Come on You Dons’ – Some Experiences of a Milton Keynes Dons Fan.
Milton Keynes Dons History
It wasn’t until I was ...
In 1889 a purpose-built fire station was built in Church Street, Fenny Stratford. The first fire engine had seen many ...
A century in Buckingham Road
I was born in Osborne Street in Bletchley. We was an old railway family I think, me Dad worked on ...
Memories of a Railway Signalman's son
Coping with the mail in Bletchley
I moved to Bletchley 41 years ago (from London) in an open top lorry with just a treadle sewing machine ...
