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A Noisy Airport Threat To The City (2 May 1975)

TRM/116

A NOISY AIRPORT THREAT TO THE CITY The idea of a third London Airport is being tossed around once more. The news fills me with unease, for the suggested site is Thurleigh in Bedfordshire, which is only a few miles from the Borough of Milton Keynes. This minor airfield was among a number of sites from which ...
Another Convenient Appearance (22 November 1974)

TRM/094

I see that Bletchley’s wandering loos are likely to make what the Gazette calls another “public appearance” shortly. I am glad to hear this. Not just for my own sake, but for the sake of all those who, with uncomfortable looks on their faces, buttonhole me at the Bigger, Better, Blacker end of Queensway to ask ...
Chinese Puzzle at The Crossroads (24 January 1975)

TRM/102

I am obliged to my friends, Leslie Stevens and Ron Staniford, for their laudable attempt to put me right out about the centuries and quarter-centuries. I understand their argument, of course, having used it myself in 1950 and possibly also in 1925, when I, too, considered myself a sharp-witted lad. I now think differently, however. I ...
Commuters Had To Pay A Ten-Bob Rent "Fine" (24 May 1974)

TRM/069

No doubt Gazette readers were pleased to see in the May 3 issue that only one per cent of Bletchley’s working population were unemployed as against a national average of 2.9 per cent. They comprised 160 men and 40 women. As against this there were current vacancies for 400 men and 290 women. Wolverton was in a ...
Even The Bad Times Were Good For Men Like These (17 May 1974)

TRM/068

Two of the most interesting men I met during my early years in Bletchley were Mr. John Robert (“Bob”) Bryant, of Duncombe Street, and his neighbour, Mr. Thomas Beckett, who lived round the corner in Osborne street. They came from rather different backgrounds, but they had one thing in common. There were allotment digging enthusiasts. ...
Go Out To Grass Early (25 July 1975)

TRM/127

I note with lively interest the decision of Milton Keynes Borough Council finance director Mr Norman Chambers to retire at what is at present regarded as the early age of 55. I know nothing of the background to this retirement, but I presume it is simply a case of a man being able to see his ...
More Noughts And Dots That Means Summat And Nowt! (12 July 1974)

TRM/075

I see that the Wizard of O’s has been at it again – to the further bafflement and discomfiture of all we 60 and 70 year olds who now wrestle in despair with the intricacies of the metric system. This time he materialises in the form of an ‘important notice’ to customers of the East Midlands ...
My First Visit To A Cinema (25 February 1977)

TRM/206

One advantage of age is that we have been at or near the beginning of so many developments that were exciting in their time but which are commonplace today. One of them is the cinema. I saw my first moving picture on a wet Bank Holiday. I was maybe six years old and my father said: ...
No Place For The Weak Or Ailing (19 November 1976)

TRM/194

Three business premises now occupy the site in Bletchley’s Queensway of two former semi-detached houses, in one of which I lived for three happy years. Next door lived Mr Ray Holdom and family. From there he carried on a music business previously run by his father. In those days I used to do quite a ...
Now Is The Time For Confessions (29 November 1974)

TRM/095

During the week following the publication of my article on the former Bletchley Park Training College for women teachers I was delighted and highly honoured to receive a letter from the former principal, Miss D. Cohen, herself. I suppose the letter might be intended to be entirely private. But in it she draws attention – most ...
One Man's Private Pleasure Park (31 October 1975)

TRM/141

There seems to be an impression – and not only among newcomers – that Bletchley once “owned” Bletchley Park, and that the various government departments there have only to be persuaded to leave for Bletchley to get it back. I remember being under the same illusion when I came to the town close on 30 ...
Plastic Is Not A Modern Idea (24 October 1975)

TRM/140

This has been called the Age of Plastics. And quite rightly, I think. When I was young, practically all those things now made of poly-this, that and the other, and of bakelite or some other ite, were made of wood or metal or both. The only articles I remember which remotely resembled today’s plastics were those ...

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