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Interview about Wolverton, the Co-operative Society and the Wolverton Works.

ALC/001/001

TB recalls the early history and management structure of the Wolverton Co-operative Society, its first shop in Church Street, the society’s later expansion, its committees and its amalgamation due to the building of Milton Keynes. He refers to the ideology behind the formation of the co-operative society and its inner workings. The minutes of the ...
Interview about Wolverton, The Works, Wolverton Building Society, and local anecdotes.

ALC/002/001

JJ recalls Wolverton and his half century of working at the Wolverton Railway Works. Subjects covered include: changing conditions at the Works from 1904, low wages, workers walking to work from outlying villages, his apprenticeship and promotion. He notes the fine reputation of the Works’ craftsmen and designers and young workers attending evening classes at ...
Interview about McCorquodales Printing Works and life in Wolverton.

ALC/003/001

Describes McCorquodales printing works where approximately 90% of the employees were female. McC’s was set up to employ daughters of the LMS on the understanding that the company would do all the railway printing. JR’s father worked very long hours as the girls’ hours were restricted, especially during the war. Remembers ‘squatters’, older women sitting ...
Interview about McCorquodales' Post Office.

ALC/004/001

Refers to book of stamps with McC. signatures. McC. centenary booklet. Mentions a selection of stationery, and describes photos of machinery. Copy of warrant for first air letters (1942) (items not held by LA).
Interview about family history and McCorquodales.

ALC/004/002

Early family history. Refers to a list of regiments temporarily stationed in 1913 near Stony Stratford and a selection of Royal memorabilia. Mentions lists and directories related to Wolverton trade and his father’s indentures and Frank Markham (items not held by LA).
Interview about items of memorabilia related to Wolverton events.

ALC/004/003

Recounts pageant held in aid of hospital, performers, refers to school photographs, Mr. Meacham’s retirement party, Salvation Army H.Q., Hayes boatyard press cuttings, fire engine circular (items not held by LA).Describes fire depot at McCorquodales and the various kinds of motive power used in the factory.
Interview about family, childhood and life in domestic service.

ALC/005/001

Dora Bull looks back with affection at her childhood, family and the importance of her homelife. The simple pleasure of playing traditional family games, draughts, dominoes, cards, walks on a Sunday and her mischievous brothers. She describes her father’s work at the Wolverton Works, the local steam tram and life in domestic service in London. ...
Interview about family, moral values and floods in Calverton.

ALC/005/002

Speaks about charity. Compares past deliveries of blocks of ‘best’ coal and the current [1976] price of inferior coal. The shortage of potatoes and ‘rackets’ by farmers. Notes that her mother was one of the first to join the Stony Stratford Co-operative store, using its home order and delivery service for items such as a gross ...
Interview about the Wolverton Works, holidays, the General Strike, local politics and local characters.

ALC/006/001

Fred Price describes hard times, the uncompromising working conditions at the Wolverton Works, the unusual way wages were paid and how holidays were an unpaid ‘lock out’. Families would save all year to go away but would often take their own food with them. Recipes; ‘Mountain Pecker’ boiled sheep’s head, clangers, suet puddings warmed up ...
Interview about the Wolverton Works, hard times and life in New Bradwell.

ALC/006/002

Fred Price continues his reminiscence of starting work at the Wolverton Works in 1923. Aged fourteen, wearing short trousers, he was interviewed and checked by a doctor before being allocated to the Brass Room. It was usual to stay within a shop for the duration of your employment and FP worked in the Brass Shop ...
Interview about family, childhood, the Wolverton Works and the benevolent fund raffles.

ALC/007/001

WK describes in detail his family, his childhood and his time working at the Wolverton Works. He recalls arriving at work at quarter to six each morning to check in. He describes the Trimming Shop where they outfitted the carriages with hair-filled seats covered in baize, and the floor being built on ‘horses’ nine inches ...
Interview about village life, women and politics and the Urban District Council.

ALC/008/001

Lilian Johnson remembers her family moving from Oxfordshire to New Bradwell and how they ‘were treated in the village very much as strangers… they used to look at you with more or less suspicion till they were quite sure’. Moving into an established, village community she had to be careful what she said ‘Oh yes ...
Interview about the North Buckinghamshire Labour Party Women's Section (c1918).

ALC/008/002

In the second interview Lilian Johnson continues her recollections about women and politics c1918. The women in the Labour Party seemed older, and more experienced, perhaps because they had worked in the Printing Works and she had never worked in a factory. Discusses the North Bucks women’s section meetings, the formation of the North ...
Interview about working at McCorquodales and life in Wolverton.

ALC/009/001

McCorquodales printing works was originally set up in Newton le Willows to do the printing for the Manchester and Liverpool Railway. G.C. recalls how by the 1930’s it had diversified not only into working for the railway but also for the government and insurance companies. When G.C. joined the company in 1931 they were producing registered ...
Interview about life in New Bradwell and the depression in the 1930's.

ALC/010/001

In this interview Kathy Swain and her sister Muriel describe their childhood in Bradwell. Kathy Swain recalls as a youngster the living conditions in the old railway cottages,’ it used to be terrible draughty and it was dark … really terrible, worse than the slums’. Muriel Swain also recalls the cottages ‘they were painted in ...
Interview about railway connections, living and working in Wolverton, and collecting local history.

ALC/011/001

Dorothy Warren discusses family connections to the Wolverton Works and the railway and records her observations of childhood, local schools and life in Wolverton. She comments on how the worker’s living in the outlying villages would walk five miles to get to the Works for six o’clock in the morning. The mishaps they encountered when ...
Interview about an outsider's view of working at the Wolverton Works.

ALC/012/001

George’s first two days at the Works were stressful ‘I never took me coat off’ his new co-workers told him ‘nothing personal against you… but we don’t want you with us.’ So I said, ‘ok, fair enough.’ So I stood there until half past four with me Mac on’. The next day again, ‘Oh no, ...
Interview about memories of Wolverton.

ALC/013/001

Viva Chappill talks generally about life in Wolverton, growing up and attending carnivals and parties. She reminisces while looking through a family photograph album (not held at Living Archive) and mentions the schools she attended, subjects and teachers. Her father owned a toy factory that was based in a row of cottages and during the ...
Interview about living and working at 'The Royal Engineer' public house in Wolverton.

ALC/014/001

Mrs. Pinfold lived and worked at the Engineer public house in Wolverton for several years before she married one of the Pinfold boys. She recalls in detail, her work at the pub and the part the Wolverton Works played in her memories of the Engineer. When the whistle blew all the staff had to be ...
Interview about family, McCorquodales 'envelope' room, automation, and characters.

ALC/015/001

Bill Rowlegde talks about McCorquodales print works, ‘built first of all to provide jobs for the daughters of the railway men’ and therefore, Wolverton’s largest employer of girls and young women. The girls, who would start when they left school, if they didn’t marry, would often stay until they were sixty. There was no canteen ...
Interview about childhood in Wolverton and working at McCorquodales.

ALC/016/001

In this interview Len Squire reminisces about Wolverton and working at McCorquodales from 1921 when he started his apprenticeship. The printers had already been in operation for seventy five years and it was the largest employer of women in Wolverton. There was a high turnover of female workers, as the majority of women, including his ...
Interview about working at McCorquodales, unions and the 1959 strike.

ALC/016/002

Len Squire recalls that pre and post WWII, work was less plentiful for both men and women, and those who had employment feared getting the sack. His father was the first secretary of the union when it was formed at McCorquodales, in 1918. It was known as the Printing Unions’ Trade Federation and at that ...
Interview with Peter Cheeseman and Roy Nevitt about producing stage shows from material sourced from oral history interviews (1976).

ALC/024/008

Peter Cheeseman and Roy Nevitt discuss producing stage shows from material sourced from oral history interviews. Peter Cheeseman explains how to obtain folk songs by gathering people (men or women, not both) together and highlights some of the collections he has sourced. He explains how the theatrical device of parallel stories arises, i.e: two scenes ...

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