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Iron Bridge Built For Horse-Drawn Wagons (24 January 1976)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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 ...
Monty's Success Not Ultra's (9 April 1976)

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One of my old bosses died a week or two ago. He was the only public figure I ever felt like wearing a black tie for. His name, or rather his nickname, was Monty. Since the war Monty’s reputation has been much nibbled at by military historians and others of that ilk. So far as I ...
Our Festival Fling (26 March 1976)

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Currently we are being reminded that this year sees the 25th anniversary of the Festival of Britain. It was quite an event, but my memory of what went on in Bletchley is somewhat mixed with the coronation celebrations which happened only two years later. I know that nationally by 1950 we had had about 11 years ...
There Was A Market In Fenny Stratford 772 Years Ago (5 March 1976)

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My fancy is tickled by the Fenny Stratford traders’ idea that a royal charter dated 1608 gives them the right to hold a weekly market on Mondays. I rather approve. I do not know whether the claim could be made to stick, but I would be delighted if it could, even if the traders then ...
The Great Divide? (19 March 1976)

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It is now nearly two years since local government reorganisation. During that time we have become just a little more used to living in a city within a borough, both of which are named after a tiny constituent village – a village which otherwise never did anybody any harm and would never have dreamed of ...
Military Men And Politics (30 April 1976)

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When writing about Monty three or four weeks ago, I was struck by the resemblance between his early military career and that of a former Bletchley county councillor, the late Brigadier E G Earle, of Walton Hall – now the seat of the Open University. At the time of Monty’s demise, writers and broadcasters pointed out ...
The Hall That Was A School 77 Years Ago (4 June 1976)

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A recent news item that caught my eye concerned the local Freemasons’ acquisition of the former urban council offices at the junction of Queensway and Victoria Road, Fenny Stratford, and the sale of their former hall in the High Street. To many elderly local people, of course, the High Street hall is still known as the ...
Believing in aliens by Sarah

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Believing in aliens by Sarah describes her scepticism that Zerena is a real alien, accompanied by drawing of the alien, also by Sarah.
Zerena's Home

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Zerena’s Home is a line drawing showing a representation of Zerena’s home on planet Xadrolyte by unknown artist.
The professor is planning… by George Cricson

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George’s letter describes the finalised plans for Zerena’s departure.
Man scratches his head at site of crash-landed spaceship

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Child discovers spacecraft

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Children caught up in smoke from spacecraft

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Children investigate the spacecraft in Margaret Powell Square

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Crowd gathers ahead of Educating Zerena exhibition opening

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