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Interview about the North Buckinghamshire Labour Party Women's Section (c1918).

ALC/008/002

In the second interview Lilian Johnson continues her recollections about women and politics c1918. The women in the Labour Party seemed older, and more experienced, perhaps because they had worked in the Printing Works and she had never worked in a factory. Discusses the North Bucks women’s section meetings, the formation of the North ...
Interview about the Wolverton Works, hard times and life in New Bradwell.

ALC/006/002

Fred Price continues his reminiscence of starting work at the Wolverton Works in 1923. Aged fourteen, wearing short trousers, he was interviewed and checked by a doctor before being allocated to the Brass Room. It was usual to stay within a shop for the duration of your employment and FP worked in the Brass Shop ...
Interview about the Wolverton Works, holidays, the General Strike, local politics and local characters.

ALC/006/001

Fred Price describes hard times, the uncompromising working conditions at the Wolverton Works, the unusual way wages were paid and how holidays were an unpaid ‘lock out’. Families would save all year to go away but would often take their own food with them. Recipes; ‘Mountain Pecker’ boiled sheep’s head, clangers, suet puddings warmed up ...
Interview about village life, women and politics and the Urban District Council.

ALC/008/001

Lilian Johnson remembers her family moving from Oxfordshire to New Bradwell and how they ‘were treated in the village very much as strangers… they used to look at you with more or less suspicion till they were quite sure’. Moving into an established, village community she had to be careful what she said ‘Oh yes ...
Interview about Wolverton, the Co-operative Society and the Wolverton Works.

ALC/001/001

TB recalls the early history and management structure of the Wolverton Co-operative Society, its first shop in Church Street, the society’s later expansion, its committees and its amalgamation due to the building of Milton Keynes. He refers to the ideology behind the formation of the co-operative society and its inner workings. The minutes of the ...
Interview about Wolverton, The Works, Wolverton Building Society, and local anecdotes.

ALC/002/001

JJ recalls Wolverton and his half century of working at the Wolverton Railway Works. Subjects covered include: changing conditions at the Works from 1904, low wages, workers walking to work from outlying villages, his apprenticeship and promotion. He notes the fine reputation of the Works’ craftsmen and designers and young workers attending evening classes at ...
Interview about working at McCorquodales and life in Wolverton.

ALC/009/001

McCorquodales printing works was originally set up in Newton le Willows to do the printing for the Manchester and Liverpool Railway. G.C. recalls how by the 1930’s it had diversified not only into working for the railway but also for the government and insurance companies. When G.C. joined the company in 1931 they were producing registered ...
Interview about working at McCorquodales, unions and the 1959 strike.

ALC/016/002

Len Squire recalls that pre and post WWII, work was less plentiful for both men and women, and those who had employment feared getting the sack. His father was the first secretary of the union when it was formed at McCorquodales, in 1918. It was known as the Printing Unions’ Trade Federation and at that ...
Interview with Peter Cheeseman and Roy Nevitt about producing stage shows from material sourced from oral history interviews (1976).

ALC/024/008

Peter Cheeseman and Roy Nevitt discuss producing stage shows from material sourced from oral history interviews. Peter Cheeseman explains how to obtain folk songs by gathering people (men or women, not both) together and highlights some of the collections he has sourced. He explains how the theatrical device of parallel stories arises, i.e: two scenes ...
Keep Off - Danger

INT/001/010

People in red dungarees and yellow striped T shirts performing for the children, with a sign in the background saying Keep Off – Danger
Letter from D. Warren to Margaret Broadhurst, enclosing an index of references sourced from the Northampton Mercury (1976).

ALC/020/011

Letter from D. Warren (probably Dorothy Warren) about references sourced at the Northampton Mercury newspaper including an index of subjects, listed chronologically with adjacent notebook references (notebooks not held by Living Archive). The material covers dates from 1851 to 1880, the index lists historical and social events relevant to Wolverton and the railway. The index ...
List showing production outline. Tasks, draft sequence, teams and production schedule (1976).

ALC/029/004

A comprehensive breakdown of the categories selected for the ‘All Change’ project includes in an initial group: the commission, consultants, research, writing, a draft sequence of the storyline, the budget and performance dates and venues. The second group lists the ‘teams to make it work’: from the actors, stage managers, and musicians to members of the ...

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