Shirley Waters

We arrived at 57 Pinders Croft in 1978 from Rotherham, South Yorkshire. We being my husband, 3yr old son and myself.

At that time you could get a council home if you had got a job within the Milton Keynes area, usually near your work place. Unfortunately my husband worked for McCorquodales but at the Barclays bank building in Bletchley on the Barclaycard machines – so we should have been allocated a home in Bletchley.

We were given 37 Pinders Croft, a corner house next to the Rugby Club’s outer field. Behind the house was a wonderful Orchard with a path running through to the next croft.

My abiding memories of the time is how clean everything was. We had come from a really dirty area called Rawmarsh Hill in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, so to see the woman next door throw her washing on the grass before pegging it out was just amazing.