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Sport.

TBC/008

Collection of photographs and newspaper articles relating to Frank Brown’s sporting achievements. They including billiards, bowling and cricket. He played billiards with his son in law and grandson.
Interview with Frank Bodimeade (b.1928) about his National Service experiences and moving from London to Bletchley in 1960.

BBB/003/003

Frank Bodimeade while on National Service from 1945, was involved in the disposal of the corpses of German war criminals at Hamelin. He gives a gruesome account of hangings by Albert Pierpoint (Chief Executioner) after which he transported the bodies, by lorry for burial at Hamelin. He returned to Harlesden, and took a job driving ...
Interview with Ron Unwin

PSM/001/046

Ron talks about his memories of growing up and seeing Milton Keynes develop around his home in Nash. He shares how he was a founder member of the committee that established Milton Keynes Museum. He realised the area’s agricultural land was declining so began to collect local farming artefacts.
Deaths.

TBC/006

Collection of newspaper articles, photographs, documents and objects relating to various deaths in the Taylor Brown family.
Interview with Giovanni Palmiero (b.1930) and Serafina Palmiero (b.1933) about emigration from Italy to Bletchley in the 1950s.

BBB/003/014

Giuseppe Palmiero came to England in 1954, from a village in south Italy where farming was generating little income. After the war, the London Brick Company came to Italy to recruit foreign labour, and several members of Giuseppe’s family were taken on. He left his fiancée behind in Italy; he recalls the farewell party and ...
Interview with Giovanni Palmiero (b.1930) and Serafina Palmiero (b.1933) about the Italian community in Bletchley adjusting to the English lifestyle and language.

BBB/003/015

Serafina Palmiero recalls her family emigrating from Italy to Bletchley in the 1960s. They were grateful for the opportunities offered in the UK. Serafina and Giuseppe recall their old house in Italy, which is now almost a ruin although her sister still farms the land and now has a good living. She recalls that the ...
Interview with Raymond A and Frances E Lubbock

BBB/003/020

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Interview with Raymond A. and Frances E Lubbock about living and working in Bletchley from the 1940s.

BBB/003/019

Frances Lubbock’s childhood was in Portsmouth, Oxfordshire and Brackley, Northants. Raymond Lubbock’s was in Wollaston, Northamptonshire and then Brackley. Her uncle was Harold Price who started the Bletchley Gazette with Ron Staniford. Harold Price asked her husband whose hobby was photography, to start up a photographic department for the Gazette. His first assignment was photographing ...
Interview with Mrs. S. Jarvis and Dr. Peter Jarvis (b.1932), about their life in a busy doctor's practice in Bletchley from 1961.

BBB/003/018

Dr. and Mrs. Jarvis graduated from Liverpool University, where they met. They moved to Bletchley in 1961 to an expanding doctor’s practice, living first in Whaddon Way then in Wordsworth Drive from 1965. Mrs Jarvis assisted her husband from home, without pay for some years, which was the usual practice at the time. Dr Jarvis ...
Interview with Roy Maycock (b.1933) about his wartime childhood in Bletchley, local politics and amateur entertainment.

BBB/001/007

Roy Maycock’s mother’s family originally came from the Fens and his father’s family from Long Buckby. His grandfather had worked on the railway but his father worked for the Co-op as a bakery manager. He remembers his childhood during the war, the evacuees arriving in Cattle Market field with ‘little brown bags and luggage labels and ...
Interview with Barrie and Ted Field

BBB/001/011

Barrie Field recalls the three years that he taught at Denbigh School. He left teaching in 1967 to run Bletchley Youth Centre in Derwent Drive, a New County initiative. It had a ‘membership of nearly five hundred without a building and I used to hire the Labour Club which is now the Salvation Army place ...
Interview with Roland Doggett (b.1934) about living in Bletchley.

BBB/001/009

Roland Doggett was born in Eaton Avenue Bletchley in 1934. His father worked in Bletchley brickworks, from 1933 ‘drawing bricks’, after having been in the Regular Army for twelve years. His parents, who met in India, moved to Bletchley as it was the only place his father could get a job at the time. His ...

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