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Interview with Ryan Mark Gray

MKS/01/017

Ryan’s first experience of skateboarding was through his neighbour at his local park. Ryan grew up in Yorkshire where the main source of skating was through magazines and videos. He compares this to today when it is more accessible through social media. When he first saw how suitable Milton Keynes was for skateboarding, he visited ...
Interview with Chris Ince and Jennifer Ince

MKS/01/005

Chris and Jennifer lived in Springfield, in Milton Keynes. They were on holiday when they and their two sons were introduced to skateboarding whilst staying at a camping site in Holywell Bay, near Newquay. They both hired boards and met friends who shared their love for it. They explain how Milton Keynes became popular with skateboarders ...
Interview with Ben Powell

MKS/01/002

Ben recalls finding a skateboard from the 1970s at his parent’s house, but was first inspired to start skateboarding when he saw ‘Back to the Future’ in 1984. He started skating around the estate of Wakefield with his brother and step brother. Ben first skateboarded in Milton Keynes in 1992 at the Bus Station. He remembers ...
Interview with James Bush

MKS/01/007

James was five years old when he first encountered skateboarding whilst visiting his family in America when they went to a skate park. He liked the adrenaline he got from skateboarding. James got his first skateboard when he was nine years old from WH Smiths, and within a year he was ’hooked’. Although he cannot remember ...
Interview with William George Tricks

MKS/01/020

William explains how he started skateboarding because it a free way of getting around and his first skateboard was a blue plastic flyer. The first place William skateboarded was at ‘The Hide’ which was local to him as he lived in Netherfield. He then became part of a small group who would skate together. He ...
Interview with Josh Lock

MKS/01/010

Josh was four when he moved from Luton to Milton Keynes in 1991. Josh always remembers having a skateboard and going down scaffolding planks in his parents’ garden on it. It was when he was eleven that he began to take it more seriously. His first time skateboarding in Milton Keynes was after seeing skateboarding at ...
Interview with Leo Sharp

MKS/01/011

Leo was introduced to skateboarding through friends at school. Leo lived in Pottersbury and first started skateboarding in a car park. Leo started to skateboard in Milton Keynes when he got his Rob Roskopp skateboard for his twelfth birthday in 1987. His favourite place to skate in Milton Keynes was the Bus Station, and his ...
Interview with Lindsay Knight

MKS/01/012

Lindsay lived in Milton Keynes when he was about ten years old and was introduced to skateboarding, BMX’ing and breakdancing through his brother. Lindsays family lived in Newbury for five years where he and his brother created a skateboarding scene; it was his ‘whole identity’. He was anxious when they moved back to Milton Keynes, ...
Interview with Mark Calape

MKS/01/013

Mark, nicknamed Swarf, moved to in Milton Keynes in 1990 because his father got a job with Milton Keynes Council. Mark was introduced to skateboarding through his father, who tried to show him how to make a board jump. His first skateboard was a cheap £20 board from Argos. Marks friends then took up skateboarding ...
Interview with Matt Pritchard

MKS/01/014

Matt recalls how inspired he was by Rob Shelley and his mates when he first started skating in Milton Keynes. Matt goes into detail about the tricks he has done and how confident he felt at the time. ’Pritchard Gap’ is a skate place named after Matt and he says he feels weird, but sees ...
Interview with Nathan Lindsell

MKS/01/015

Nathan was about five or six when his mother would take him to the shopping centre in Farnborough where they would watch people skateboarding. He was given his first skateboard as a birthday present and he remembers doing acid drops off the kerbs outside his house. Nathan was attracted to start skateboarding through the photos he ...
Interview with Steve Martin

MKS/01/018

Steve first encountered skateboarding in 1976 on an entertainment television programme called ’Seaside Special’ or ‘Summertime Special’. He said it totally blew his mind seeing the people on this programme skateboard. He got his first skateboard the day after at Neals toyshop in Bletchley. He used it in the underpass in the Brunel Centre and ...
Interview with Steven Ince and Damian Ince

MKS/01/006

Steven remembers his first encounter with skateboarding in Springfield, where Paul Picket had a chicken board and was chased down the street. Both of their first experiences using a skateboard was when they went on holiday in Cornwall, where they hired skateboards from the skate park. The first professional skateboard Damian bought was from Jaime’s ...
Interview with Carter Hewlett

MKS/01/003

Carter describes the first time he encountered skateboarding and his first time skateboarding locally in Bletchley when he was fourteen. Carter and his crew would spend eight hours a day at ’Buszy’-the Bus Station. Carter started to film skateboarding when he was fifteen with a Hi8 video camera. The first skate film Carter made was named ...
Interview with James Jessop

MKS/01/008

James bought his first skateboard in 1983 for £1 and describes his first experience of the skate park at Knebworth amusement park where he was mind blown by the noises that skating made. From then onwards, whenever he attended birthday parties at Knebworth, he would ask to go to the skate park. It was on ...
Interview with Dean John Edwards

MKS/01/004

Dean first encountered skateboarding when a couple of boys brought skateboards into school and he was ’blown away’. Dean’s mother bought him his first board in 1987. There were few places to skate when Dean lived in Towcester, so he would join his parents when they visited Milton Keynes and skate whilst they went shopping. ...
Interview with John Aldridge

MKS/01/009

John first encountered skateboarding at the Bus Station in Milton Keynes. He remembers looking eagerly on the bus whenever he went past and thinking it was really cool. John got his first skateboard when he was twelve or thirteen and remembers skateboarding in Bletchley. Johns parents were supportive of his hobby. When the Bus Station opened ...
Interview with Wig Worland

MKS/01/019

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