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Personal Photographs.

TBC/015

A miscellaneous collection of family photographs, birthday and Christmas cards from the 20th century.
Charles Edward Green Collection

CEG

Collection relating to the life of Charles Edward Green; Ellen Green (nee Axten); Ronald Green and G. Green. This includes material relating to the First World War; his school life and personal documents
All Change

ALC

‘All Change’ is a collection of oral history audio recordings, still images and research process documents, relating to the coming of the railways and the creation of the railway towns of Wolverton and New Bradwell in Buckinghamshire, during the years 1832-1865. Topics include the Captain Swing riots, disputes with the canal company and the building of ...
Eric Mobbs Collection

EMC

A collection of Royal Family Postcards, Wolverton Works and McCorquodales photographs and local miscellaneous leaflets which all belonged to Eric Mobbs
General Strike

GST

‘General Strike’ is a collection of 12 oral history audio recordings relating to the 1926 General Strike and the lives of the interviewees in the years before and after. Topics include the General Strike, Wolverton Works, McCorquodales, World War One and World War Two.
Fred Church (1911-c.2000): oral history audio recording.

GST/002

[To be added].
Elsie Ada Sinfield (1905-c.2000): oral history audio recording.

GST/004

EAS’s childhood home backed on to the Wolverton Works’ Laundry and the children used to talk to the laundresses, who included her sister-in-law, through the railings. Her brother George worked for the Stony Stratford Ambulance and joined the Royal Medical Corps at the start of World War One. He served in Egypt and, whilst there, ...
Eva Hall (1902-c.2000) and Betty Hall (1904-c.2000) Hall: oral history audio recording.

GST/011

The sisters’ aunt was 1 of the first 9 employees when McCorquodales started in Wolverton (1878). They worked in a disused railway carriage producing envelopes: the men cutting shapes and the women folding and gluing. As children, they received 3d pocket money. Sweets cost 1d per 2 ounces and bananas were 2d each. They received a ...
Marriages.

TBC/005

Collection of newspaper articles, photographs and documents relating to various weddings and wedding anniversaries in the Taylor Brown family. The majority of the material relates to the wedding of Frank Harry Brown to Beryl Louise Taylor in 1939.
Bridge Street, decorated, with street party

SMC/007/026

Bridge Street, decorated, with street party (on the back is written Ray Bellchambers, Bridge St.)
Bridge Street, decorated

SMC/007/028

Bridge Street, decorated. (On the back is written Bridge St.)
Bridge Street, decorated, with street party

SMC/007/029

Bridge Street, decorated, with street party (on the back is written Bridge St. Bill West).
Trophy on display in the street

SMC/007/031

Trophy on display in the street
The Foresters Arms, decorated with bunting

SMC/007/042

The Foresters Arms, decorated with bunting. (On the back is written Mrs West)
Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Train Line, Bradwell Station.

SMC/009/001

Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Train Line, Bradwell Station. (on the back is written LAST TRAIN W. MAY)
Train at Bradwell Station

SMC/009/002

Train at Bradwell Station. (on the back is written LAST TRAIN W. MAY) Published in’ A Century of Life in New Bradwell’, by Sylvia Mead, p125.
Bradwell windmill

SMC/011/001

Bradwell windmill. Colour photograph.
Mr & Mrs Squire & Connie, Haversham Rd.

SMC/011/002

Mr & Mrs Squire & Connie, Haversham Rd.
New Bradwell, from the direction of Wolverton.

SMC/011/008

New Bradwell. Colour photograph from the direction of Wolverton.
Brian Stephenson

SMC/013/007

Brian Stephenson. Published in ‘The Bradwells Old and New’, by Sylvia Mead p12.
May Queen Gillian Cross.

SMC/013/023

May Queen Gillian Cross. Published in ‘The Bradwells Old and New’, by Sylvia Mead, p105.
Mrs Isobel Scott who worked her whole life on the farm at Old Bradwell

SMC/011/073

Mrs Isobel Scott, in a decorated pony cart, talking to a man. She worked her whole life on the farm at Old Bradwell. Published in ‘The Bradwells Old and New’, by Sylvia Mead p132.
Haymaking in Common Lane, Old Bradwell.

SMC/011/074

Haymaking in Common Lane, Old Bradwell. Left to right: George Smith, Harry Mead, Perce Rainbow. Published in ‘The Bradwells Old and New’, by Sylvia Mead, p132
Photograph of Mrs Smith, of Old Bradwell

SMC/011/075

Mrs Smith lived in Common Lane, Old Bradwell. Published in ‘The Bradwells Old and New’, by Sylvia Mead, p132