Search

Currently displaying: 279 results

You've searched for:

1. Subject: "placemaking" x

Search term

Filter by Collection
Filter by Format
Filter by Subject
Filter by Decade

Sort by:

The goodbye parade sets off from the playground of Newlyn Pace First School. Teacher Julia Upton holds two children’s hands.

ZER/002/035
A child feeds Zerena whilst others observe

ZER/002/019
Zerena is given a cheese biscuit and sticks her tongue out in disgust

ZER/002/020
The children show their work to the Professor

ZER/002/021
The children wave Zerena and the Professor goodbye as they climb into a helicopter

ZER/002/038
The children realise that the alien copies them

ZER/002/013
The children greet the alien

ZER/002/012
The children build Zerena’s home in the school hall

ZER/002/022
Outside in the playground, a group of children gather with Zerena getting ready for the goodbye parade

ZER/002/034
Art Or Not, Here's My Solution (31 December 1975)

TRM/149

On the whole, 1975 has been a depressing year. It has, however, had its lighter aspects, one of which we are still undergoing. I refer, of course, to the design for an ornamental fountain for Stanier Square, Bletchley, put forward by Milton Keynes Development Corporation and to the reactions to it. Milton Keynes Borough Council called ...
Professor Blenkinsop with two children viewing the crashed spaceship in the playground of Newlyn Place First School

ZER/002/002
The alien Zerena learns to paint with the help of the children

ZER/002/015
The alien tries to talk, copying the children

ZER/002/014
Zerena’s home on Xadrolyte, as envisaged by the children and community artists

ZER/002/023
Iron Bridge Built For Horse-Drawn Wagons (24 January 1976)

TRM/152

I see that Tickford Bridge is in the news again. This time it is not directly threatened with demolition, as it was in 1967. Apparently the authorities are merely examining the advisability of strengthening it further, in case the cast-ironwork should crack under ever-increasing road loads. In fact, it was wonderful how the bridge stood up ...
Milton Keynes - Or How To Concoct The Name Of A City (30 January 1976)

TRM/153

I sympathise with Gazette columnist Joy who complained recently about the length of addresses in these parts. It’s the place-names that are the main cause of the trouble. As she says, Milton Keynes itself is a bit of a mouthful. But no doubt she is thanking her stars she doesn’t live in Newton Blossomville. She would ...
Shocking, The Price Of Spuds These Days (6 February 1976)

TRM/154

What do you think of the price of potatoes, missus? Shocking, isn’t it? I don’t wonder you don’t see kids playing with potato guns these days. The cost of the ammunition would be prohibitive. I am not a very old man. Just going on for 68, in fact. But I remember visiting my grandmother as a ...
Dancing With Death For 15 Or 20 Years ( 13 February 1976)

TRM/155

No doubt many Bletchley people have been startled to learn how close they have been to sudden death or injury during the past 15 to 20 years. I refer, of course, to the recent discovery that the concrete beams in parts of Wilton Hall were in far worse shape than was suspected when the hall ...
The Veterans - The Nitty-Gritty Men Of The Council (20 February 1976)

TRM/156

I am interested to read of the intended retirement from the Milton Keynes Borough Council of Mr Arthur Snaith, of Loughton, and Mr Bill Caldwell, of Bletchley. I suppose that after the elections on May 6 there will still be many on the council who served on the old local authorities which the borough took ...
Those Years Of Setting Up House On Dockets (27 February 1976)

TRM/157

In July, 1948, the local butchers’ association issued a poster. This stated that “owing to the recent reduction in the fresh meat ration and the lack of publicity from official quarters in regard thereto,” they felt it necessary themselves to announce to the public that: “The total ration per adult book per week is: fresh meat ...
Sunday Trade 50 Years Ago (23 April 1976)

TRM/165

The first item of police court news I ever wrote was written in the 1920s. It ran: “Borough Court, today, Friday. Thirty two Sunday traders were each fined 5s.” It had to be the first. The court was always held on a Friday at 10.30am. The paper, a weekly, went to press at 1pm. The cases were ...
May Day For Merry Making (16 April 1976)

TRM/164

I like the idea of May Day becoming a public holiday again. For many centuries May Day holiday and merry making were customary throughout the land. Historically speaking, the custom has only recently died out, and country children continued to celebrate the day up to living memory. Even I, comparatively young as I am, can remember ...
The Sound Of Brass (12 March 1976)

TRM/159

Having been brought up with the sound of the Black Dyke Mills Band in one ear and that of the Brighouse and Rastrick Band in the other, so to speak, I have been very pleased to note the resurgence of brass banding in Milton Keynes, for there is nothing like a brass band for bringing ...
It's Cheaper By Concorde (2 April 1976)

TRM/162

I was strolling along the arcade the other day when an acquaintance sidled up to me and whispered: “Psst! Do you know it’s now as cheap or cheaper to ride in Concorde, with all the trimmings, than in a United Counties bus, with no trimmings at all?” I said “Really? How do you make that out?” “Well, it’s ...