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1970s

  • Bradville and beyond, late 1970s

    Bradville and beyond, late 1970s

    In the Spring of 1978 my husband, Robin, myself and our young baby Mark, eagerly set off to explore the new ...
  • Chris and Clare:What a Pair - Dawn

    Chris and Clare:What a Pair - Dawn

    I want to promote my story “Chris and Clare – What a Pair”.  I launched the book in January 2014 ...
  • Dad, me and Milton Keynes-Louise Roche

    Dad, me and Milton Keynes-Louise Roche

        It’s 1970, I am ten years old and my Dad has an exciting new job. He is to head up ...
  • Early days at MKDC - Chris King

    Early days at MKDC - Chris King

    My Early Days at Milton Keynes Development Corporation I was a chartered Quantity Surveyor with the Ministry of Public Building and ...
  • Early Days- Norman

    Early Days- Norman

    Living Archive- Personal Project One Friday in 1973 my pregnant wife was browsing the property pages of the Daily Express ...
  • John Haynes-MY LIFE THROUGH THE YEARS

    John Haynes-MY LIFE THROUGH THE YEARS

    My life through the years   I stayed there until I was 15 years which was the age to leave in those ...
  • Move to Woburn Sands - Tony

    Move to Woburn Sands - Tony

    The day job was focused in north London at Colindale. I was living in Carshalton in north Surrey and the ...
  • Netherfield Housing

    Netherfield Housing

    Netherfield was one of the earliest completed rental housing grid squares in Milton Keynes. It was built between 1972 and 1977, ...
  • Newport Pagnell High Street in the 70s - Sue B

    Newport Pagnell High Street in the 70s - Sue B

    Sue B:  Newport Pagnell High Street   I came to live in Newport Pagnell when we got married in 1977. I had never ...
  • Personal History - GMJ

    Personal History - GMJ

    Personal History I arrived in MK in May 1979 in preparation for the opening of the shopping centre the following August ...
  • The Master Plan for Milton Keynes 1970

    The Master Plan for Milton Keynes 1970

    From 'The Story of the Original CMK'
  • What's Netherfield to You?

    What's Netherfield to You?

    'Book-in-a-Week'
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