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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.
Co-operative society Mortgage Account Book.

TBC/010/017

Mortgage Account Book for Mr. T. Taylor with the Wolverton Co-operative Society. It is a black book with a cream coloured label on the front ‘Mortgage Account No. 177 Mr. T. Taylor in account with Wolverton Co-operative Society’. Inside the front page it states that Mr. T. Taylor of 170 Church Street ...
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.
John Shean (far right) Wolverton Road 1934

JSC/001/010

Six men, including John Shean, working on the Wolverton Road in 1934. On extreme right is John Thomas Shean.
Deaths.

TBC/006

Collection of newspaper articles, photographs, documents and objects relating to various deaths in the Taylor Brown family.
Dinner Time at Wolverton Works

DKC/001/006

Postcard titled ‘Dinner Time at Wolverton Works’ – undated early-mid C20th.
Great Linford High Street looking north

DKC/001/005

Great Linford High Street, looking north with St Andrew’s School on the left and the Nag’s Head in the distance – undated early-mid C20th.
Group of people, c.1930s

BOD/002/038

Group of people, c.1930s
Group of people, c.1930s

BOD/002/039

Group of people, c.1930s
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 ...

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