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Interview with Mrs. May Kearns.

PMK/001/014

May Kearns was born in Old Wolverton, and both of her parents were also born locally. The family lived in Slated Row in Stony Stratford. She recalls her childhood, school days in Wolverton, and working at McCorquodales, the printers. Talking of the development of Milton Keynes, she refers to the gradual changes she saw in ...
Interview with a male resident (b.1917).

PMK/001/015
Interview with Lesley Moore (b.1936).

PMK/001/016

Lesley Moore was born and brought up in Wolverton. She describes her various employment, including Hanslope Park, teaching and then social work with the Milton Keynes Development Corporation. She first heard of Milton Keynes’ development in the early 1970s when she was training as a teacher. She talks of her work as a ...
Interview with male resident (b.1919).

PMK/001/017

Interview with a male resident who has lived in the Milton Keynes area all his life. The interviewee has requested that the content of this interview be used for educational purposes only. The content of this interview may be accessed at the discretion of Living Archive
Interview with Pat Old (b.1947).

PMK/001/018

Pat Old was born in New Bradwell. She talks about her schooling, and shopping as a child, talking of the urban hierarchy – Bradwell, Wolverton, Stony Stratford. and going on the train to Woolworth’s in Newport Pagnell. She recalls some pop concerts she went to at the Palace Ballroom, Wolverton: Billy Fury, The Animals, ...
Interview with Colin Gear (b.1940).

PMK/001/019

Colin Gear was born and brought up in Wolverton, and both he and his father worked in Wolverton Works. After being made redundant in 1970 he had difficulty finding work. He talks of how important the Works was to Wolverton, Stony Stratford and New Bradwell and remembers Wolverton when he was young: steam trams, ...
Interview with Linda Doherty (b.1942).

PMK/001/020

Linda Doherty was born in Milton Keynes village, lived and worked in London briefly then returned to MK village when her daughter was born; she moved to Newport Pagnell 30 years ago. She remembers her ‘idyllic childhood’ and talks of her grandfather’s and father’s lives in MK Village, and the old farming methods; she talks ...
Interview with Ray Bellchambers (b.1919).

PMK/001/021

Ray Bellchambers has lived in the area all his life. His local knowledge, from working on Newport Pagnell farms during the war, proved useful in the development of Milton Keynes. As a long-serving Councillor on Newport Pagnell Rural District Council, he was selected as one of the first two Local Authority representatives on the Milton ...
Interview with Sir Ralph Verney.

PMK/001/022

Sir Ralph Verney was Chairman of the Finance Committee of Bucks County Council when the Ministry of Housing proposed to build a new town for London overspill in North Buckinghamshire (in about 1964). He describes their initial plans to extend ‘Metroland’, in the Chilterns area, and how the County Council was able to convince the ...
Oral history audio recordings of original residents who moved into existing towns and villages, later designated as Milton Keynes (1930 and 1949).

PMK/002

The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 Oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 11 interviews were recorded between April 2000 and March 2002 with original residents who moved during the period between1930 and 1949 into the area that would subsequently become known as ...
Interview with Aileen Button (b.1916).

PMK/002/001

Aileen Button lived in Lincolnshire, before moving to Wolverton to teach at the Grammar School in 1938. She was a Wolverton Urban District Councilor at the start of Milton Keynes and discussed among other things the Development Corporation taking over. Wolverton was the first authority to agree designation, councillors believed ‘London unfortunates’ should be offered ...
Interview with Pam Egan (b.1932).

PMK/002/002

Pam Egan’s family moved to Stony Stratford when she was two years old. She recalls hearing about the new town through the local newspapers and was against the development since she liked Stony as a small, rural market town. She describes the concerns of local business people who felt they might lose trade, and ...
Interview with a husband and wife (b.1911 and 1913).

PMK/002/003
Interview with Margaret Durbridge.

PMK/002/004

Margaret Durbridge moved to Milton Keynes in 1936; at that time the region’s main occupation was farming, apart from that there was the Wolverton Works. In 1967 she was elected a county councillor and was heavily involved with school education in North Bucks. She refers to the Seebohm Report and the appointment of a Chief ...
Interview with Doris E. White (b.1922).

PMK/002/005

Doris White came to New Bradwell c.1940-41 with her widowed mother; they ‘self evacuated’ from London to live with an aunt. In 1967 she married and moved to Wolverton and first heard of the plans for Milton Keynes through an article in the Wolverton Express newspaper. She talks of her misgivings, wondering whether ...
Interview with William Maddison (b.1916).

PMK/002/006

William Maddison was born in Coventry into a large family. On leaving the army his eldest brother had achieved his ambition of running a pub, the ‘Shoulder of Mutton’ in Calverton and William joined him in 1948 to help out, working in the gasworks in Old Wolverton until he married and was offered a better ...
Interview with Frederick Cornford (b.1922).

PMK/002/007

Frederick Cornford was an original resident in this area since 1946 and was a Wolverton Urban District Councillor. He was possibly one of the first people to hear that Richard Crossman was going to announce the New Town designation in Buckinghamshire in 1966. Remembers that Richard Crossman, Bob Mellish and Bob Maxwell visited all ...
Interview with Rodney Markley (b.1941).

PMK/002/008

Rodney Markley was born in Titchmarsh but lived in Bletchley from the age of three months. He recalls he was very excited by the development of Milton Keynes because of the positive impact that it would have on the industrial prospects of the area. He was working in the area as a Personnel manager, so ...
Interview with Ernie Smith and Muriel Smith (b.1920 and 1918).

PMK/002/009

Mr & Mrs Smith, born in Somerset and Bucks, met through their army service in rifle regiments, in the Cotswolds. They came to Bletchley in 1947, and have now lived in Stony Stratford for 20 years. Mr Smith worked for the London Brick company, then British Rail, and then for MK Development Corporation on street ...
Interview with John Brian Barnes (b.1922).

PMK/002/010

John Brian Barnes came to Stony Stratford from Rushden in 1935. His father opened Barnes Restaurant in 1937, a family business for 50 years. When early plans for Milton Keynes were discussed, he was involved with the local Chamber of Trade, who invited Mr Pooley, the county architect from Aylesbury, to address a meeting ...
Interview with Frank Atter.

PMK/002/011

Frank Atter discusses his role as Chairman of the Housing and Planning Committee of the Wolverton Urban District Council and the issues they faced before MK was planned, such as the clearance of unfit housing in Wolverton and New Bradwell. As Chairman of Wolverton Urban District Council in 1963, and a member of the County ...
Oral history audio recordings of original residents who moved in the 1950s into existing towns and villages that were later designated as Milton Keynes.

PMK/003

The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 11 interviews were recorded between August 2000 and March 2001, with original residents who moved during the 1950s into the area that would subsequently become known as Milton Keynes. The ...
Interview with Stella Hall (b.1939).

PMK/003/001

Stella Hall moved to Woughton on the Green in 1954. She discusses how she found out about the arrival of Milton Keynes and her involvement with it.
Interview with Peter Hall (b.1924).

PMK/003/002

Peter Hall moved to Woughton on the Green in 1954. He discusses how he found out about the new city and his involvement with Parish Council.