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Four World War One Medals and One Second World War Medal

FWW/002/013

Four World War One Medals mounted on a bar: The Victory Medal 1914-1919, The British War Medal 1914-1920, The 1914 – 1915 Star, Distinguished Conduct Medal. One World War Two medal: The Defence Medal 1939 – 1945
Oral history audio recording of William James Hood (b.1905) about his memories of World War One.

DOP/001/022

Interview with William James Hood. Covers the outbreak of war, his father guarded the Viaduct against an invasion; school; food shortages; boy scouts; armistice; Wolverton works; Father Guest, church choir and the marriage license confusion.
Collection of Material relating to Sapper Edwin Butler

FWW/001

Collection of items relating to Sapper Edwin Butler and the First World War. These include 1 certificate of transfer to reserve; 2 postcard photographs, one of him in Uniform and one with his wife and daughter; 3 official letters; an employment form; his recruitment pass and a pass for Calais; his demobilisation account; 2 ...
Insurance and Car Tax.

TBC/010

Car and household documents including insurance certificates, receipts, mortgage book, vehicle registration documents and photographs. It includes registration documents etc., photographs and a newspaper article about one car, a 1938 Standard 8 FBH 992, that three generations of the Brown family drove
Interview with Arthur Edward Grigg (b.1919) about his railway employment in Bletchley and the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR).

BBB/003/004

Arthur Grigg, a railwayman, moved from Essex to Bletchley in 1941 with his wife, having been promoted to fireman on the London Midland and Scottish railway in Bletchley. He and his wife viewed this move as an adventure; but they had to take lodgings initially until they were allocated a house in Woodbine Terrace. He ...
Interview with Arthur Edward Grigg (b.1919) about the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), family life in Bletchley, the local Council and amenities.

BBB/003/005

Arthur Grigg was an employee of the London Midland and Scottish railway in Bletchley & Trade Unionist. He recounts incidents involving railwaymen who refused to join the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), and notes that eventually all railwaymen were legally required to join. He recalls leading the Bletchley NUR march in London, at the time ...
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 with Dickey Arnold (b.1920) about Bletchley cattle market.

BBB/001/006

Dickey Arnold describes Bletchley cattle market’s history from the 1920s when Aylesbury Street in Fenny Stratford, was first penned off to enclose livestock. This was why the old pub in Fenny was called the Bull & Butcher. He went into partnership with W. S. Johnson the estate agent who owned the cattle market and eventually ...
Oral history audio recording of Ted Brooks (c.1911-2002).

ALC/001

Interview covering Wolverton, Buckinghamshire. Interviewee’s involvement with the local Co-operative Society, Wolverton Works and trade unions including strikes in 1925 and 1926.
Interview with Winifred Ottery (nee Green) (b.1921) about growing up and living in Bletchley.

BBB/001/003

Winifred Ottery talks of her early life; brought up in poverty, she was one of twelve children. The family lived in a small brickyard cottage, then a new three-bedroom house. She says of her family life, ‘I enjoyed it …we all mucked in and helped’. Describing her childhood, she recalls traditional children’s games of the ...
Wolverton Works and the Royal Train.

TBC/003

Items relating to Frank Brown and the Wolverton Works, including Royal Train journeys.

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