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'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 1 Scene 1.

BBB/005/001

Act 1 Scene I In August 1944 John Smithie comes to Bletchley for his interview as Surveyor, Water Engineer and Public Health Inspector with Bletchley Urban District Council. Earlier, in December 1943, Arthur Bates, the man whose job John Smithie was applying for, had given a speech about his vision of a post-war Bletchley. Song : ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 1 Scene 2.

BBB/005/002

Act 1 Scene 2 In London, damage from Hitler’s bombs means that many young families are living in unsatisfactory housing conditions. Song : I want a little more from life Words: Lyn Dawes and Neil Mercer. Music: Neil Mercer (Description adapted from the script notes in ‘Bigger, Brighter, Better’ programme – 1997)
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 1 Scene 3.

BBB/005/003

Act 1 Scene 3 Realising that there would be post-war housing problems, the Wartime Government started exploring ways in which the problem could be tackled. The Abercrombie Report (published in 1944) recommended Bletchley as a potential site for a new community of 60,000 people, but further investigation revealed problems with freshwater provision and sewage disposal. The ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 1 Scene 4.

BBB/005/004

Scene 4 It wasn’t just in London where there were post-war problems. In Italy too people faced desperate poverty and lack of opportunities. The London Brick Company went out to Southern Italy to recruit labour for their brickworks. Giovanni Palmiero originally got a job at the Marston Valley Brickworks in Lidlington in Bedfordshire. Song : I ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 1 Scene 5.

BBB/005/005

Act 1 Scene5 Bletchley’s post-war house building went exceptionally well and councillors and their officials were keen to up and the town further and offer accommodation to Londoners in housing need. But to do this they needed help from the Government to finance the building of the new houses, factories and other amenities. Councillors had promised ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 1 Scene 6.

BBB/005/006

Act 1 Scene 6 In London, people on long local housing waiting lists were offered alternative housing else where, at new towns and other places they’d never even head of – like Bletchley but the head of the household had to get a job locally to qualify for a house of their own. Song I ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 1 Scene 7.

BBB/005/007

Act 1 Scene7 The first new housing development for Londoners in Bletchley was the Saints estate and the first settlers started to arrive in early September 1952, leaving family and friends behind , coming from a city environment to a little country town. (Act 1 scene 7 summary adapted from the script notes in the ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 1 Scene 8.

BBB/005/008

Act 1 Scene 8 A new house in a new town, new neighbours, new friends. The Londoners started settling in to Bletchley. Getting a house of your own meant furnishing it and money was short and you had to improvise. Unfamiliar DIY and gardening activities were tackled, often with more enthusiasm than knowledge. Song : ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 1 Scene 9.

BBB/005/009

Scene 9 The brand new sewage works for Bletchley (opened in 1955) night have solved some problems, but it brought others, particularly that of an unpleasant aroma that drifted over the town. In 1957 the Council installed a deodoriser to counteract the smell and an intrepid Bletchley Gazette reporter went to investigate. At about the ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 1 Scene 10.

BBB/005/010

Scene 10 Bletchley was not just a place to live. It was a place to work too in fact you had to get a job locally to qualify for a house. Many new factories came during the post war development period, but the new arrivals came to work in local long established industries, particularly the ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 1 Scene 11.

BBB/005/011

Scene 11 Bletchley Council emphasised in all its publicity that the newcomers were not Londoners anymore but Bletchley people, equal members of the local community. Integration was remarkably successful, but there were occasional clashes of style and accent. This scene is set in the Shoulder of Mutton on the comer of Shenley and Buckingham Road, ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 2 Scene 1.

BBB/006/001

Act 2 Scene1 Whilst working at Vauxhall on the night shift (where he slept!) newcomer Bobby Bunn decided to get into business during the day. He bought washing machines and hired them out on an hourly basis to local housewives on the Saints, Castles and neighbouring estates. Washing days were never easy for the new ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 2 Scene 2.

BBB/006/002

Act 2 Scene 2 After the collapse of his washing machine business Bobby Bun turned to window cleaning and then heard about the retirement of somebody who was running a mobile fruit and veg van. Because there were few local shops in the early days of the new estates and because the bus service to ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 2 Scene 3.

BBB/006/003

Act 2 Scene 3 In March 1964, with their record Not Fade Away at No.3 in the Hit parade, the Rolling Stones performed at the Wilton Hall in Bletchley. Song : The night the Stones rolled in to town Words and Music by Kevin Adams and Neil Mercer (Description adapted from the script summary ‘Bigger, ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 2 Scene 4.

BBB/006/004

Act 2 Scene 4 In which we learn of Bobby Bunn’s lifelong obsession with golf and the incident in the locker room when he has a suspected rupture inspected by the local doctor. We also discovered in our researches that a group of young members of the Boys Brigade were given free introductory lessons from ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 2 Scene 5.

BBB/006/005

Act 2 Scene 5 In 1966 the Queen came to Bletchley to give the official seal of approval to the town’s post war development achievement. She was introduced to the councillors and council officials, visited the Spence family in their house in Warwick Place and toured the own. The whole own turn out to see ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 2 Scene 6.

BBB/006/006

Act 2 Scene 6 As the new arrivals settled in and prospered, many moved from their rented accommodation to houses of their own. Bobby Bunn, not the ideal Council house tenant according to the local Housing Officer, was encouraged to buy a plot of land from the Council and build his own house in Whalley ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 2 Scene 7.

BBB/006/007

Scene 7 In the early 60’s there were rumours in the air about further town development in North Bucks. In 1963 Major Verney (a Bucks County Councillor) told Wolverton traders that he thought that in 5 years they would see an enormous development that would dwarf Bletchley’s efforts. In 1964 Fred Pooley, Chief planning Officer ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' Script Act 2 Scene 8.

BBB/006/008

Act 2 Scene 8 We’re in the present. We hear the words of Ron Staniford, one of the two original editors of the Bletchley Gazette who coined the phrase ‘A Bigger Brighter, Better Bletchley’. We also hear from some of the original settlers about their feelings about living in the town today. Song : Bigger, ...
'Bigger, Brighter, Better' First Draft Script (1996).

BBB/006/009

Complete first draft of ‘Bigger, Brighter, Better’ script.

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