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We've Had Our Own European Community Here For Years (26 January 1973)

TRM/004

The possibility that foreign workers may come to take up jobs in the new city of Milton Keynes has a very old familiar ring about it. Ever since that war, foreign workers have been settling in the district, sometimes in not-inconsiderable numbers. We have absorbed Poles, Latvians, Estonians, Italians, Pakistanis, Hungarians, even Russians. Could the brickworks in ...
Miners Have Always Been The Salt of The Earth (9 February 1973)

TRM/006

MINERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE SALT OF THE EARTH One day my father said: “How’d you like to be a journalist?” “What’s that?” I asked, in all innocence and ignorance. I am not sure I know the full answer yet. There are almost as many sorts of journalists as there are sorts of men and women. But I ...
‘Talking Shop' On The Subject Of Shorthand (2 February 1973)

TRM/005

Somewhere in the house are four certificates. One says I can swim. One says I can render first-aid. One says I can sing. And one says I can write shorthand. I may come back to that one some time, but here I am concerned with the shorthand one – and if you are not interested in ...
Flora And Fauna And Memories Of Percy King (25 May 1973)

TRM/021

The recent story about the efforts to transform a gravel pit on the Wolverton-Newport Pagnell road into a wild life sanctuary made interesting reading for me. So do the new fortnightly nature notes in the Gazette. They remind me of the time, over 20 years ago, when every couple of months or so I had a ...
The Pioneering Days of the Early Post-War Years (15 June 1973)

TRM/024

One of the fascinations of living in Bletchley for the past 27 years has been to observe its growth from a town of around 9,000 people to one of over 30,000. It has been a real pioneering job in almost every way, not so very unlike an American Mid-west development except for the absence of six-shooting ...
These Grand Old Men Are A Source Of Wisdom (12 October 1973)

TRM/041

In my first town which is not past its century as a municipal borough, there was a man who could remember when most of it was farmland. Naturally, as a junior reporter, I knew him. One wet and dreary day I met him on the main street. “Good morning, Mr. ________, though it’s not a ...
Talk Of Shooting Put Man On Path To Socialism (19 October 1973)

TRM/042

I arrived at Bletchley in time to attend the last meeting of what could be called its “long parliament”. This was the war-time urban council which by 1946 had reigned for seven electionless years and was due for a change. Politically it had been evenly-balanced, though after the illness and death during that period of ...
Building Is Gone But Old Roof Still Lingers On (26 October 1973)

TRM/043

A development which has pleased me greatly during my time in North Bucks has been the restoration of the so-called Rectory Cottages in Church Green Road, Bletchley, and in particular the conversion of the attached barn with its rare and ancient hammer-beam roof into a useful and pleasant hall. My interest was aroused early through coming ...
Getting To Know Newcomers - 20 Years Ago (2 November 1973)

TRM/044

September marked the 21st anniversary of the arrival of the first “Londoners” in Bletchley under the town expansion scheme. The Saints Estate was the first to be built for the scheme and early in September, 1952, the key to the door of 3 St. Andrew’s Road was handed to Mr. Arthur Attwell, who had come with ...
Greyhound Racer Led Me To Grow My Own Tobacco (16 November 1973)

TRM/046

An activity now taken pretty much for granted is the greyhound racing at Groveway, Simpson. Hundreds of people from far and near go there twice a week to enjoy the racing and other amenities and the public at large hears little about it. But it was not always so. Some people were greatly concerned, even alarmed, ...
Call To Arms For Buckinghamshire's Royal Swan (30 November 1973)

TRM/047

This is about the proposed coat-of-arms for the Milton Keynes District Council and how I don’t like it very much and why. I am not complaining about the draughtsmanship, but about what is draughted – presumably on the advice of those who ought to have known better. First of all, the outstanding historical fact about the district ...
The Reporter's Lot Is Not An Easy One - Nor Is It Dull! (18 January 1974)

TRM/052

Generally speaking, our local district councils, now ending their days, have been a well-behaved lot. Never in my time among them did I witness a case of violence by one member on another, nor even a little gentle pushing and shoving. I have seen members pick up their papers and walk out with snorts of disgust. ...
One Of The Town's Few Outstanding Benefits (25 January 1974)

TRM/053

I have just read the Gazette report that the projected £200,000 extension to the county branch library in Westfield Road, Bletchley has been shelved – for the time being at any rate. To my mind, this is a great pity. As far as I am concerned, the setting up of a full-time free library service in ...
The VIPs Who Were Also VKPs (1 February 1974)

TRM/054

The longer I continue these quasi-memoirs the more I am impressed by the fact that it is not the Bletchley-shattering events that I remember best it is the kindnesses done to me and mine during my life here – kindnesses which have led to enduring friendships. For a newsman, I am not a very sociable sort ...
Army Days And The Post-War Years (7 December 1973)

TRM/048

One day, during my first week in my new town of Bletchley, I went to a telephone box in the present Queensway. I found it was occupied. Very shortly, however, the door was pushed open from inside and I found myself face to face with a young man I remembered having been born when both ...
Horsey Fraternity Have Richness of Character (21 December 1973)

TRM/050

Captain Phillips is a lucky man. He has not only married a princess. He has married a former horse-riding champion of Europe – A title which has nothing to do with the accident of birth, and one of which she can never be deprived. I myself know little about horses, except which is the head ...
These Men Were The Town's Real Characters (22 February 1974)

TRM/057

Nowadays I feel that the heart is being torn out of the Bletchley I first knew, not so much by the disappearance of old familiar places as by the disappearance of old familiar faces. Mostly they have been those of men who did not at any time occupy any particularly exalted position yet gave a good ...
The Life And Death Of A Market Town (15 February 1974)

TRM/056

It is now about a couple of years since our old market town died. Nothing much was said about it at the time. People were too agog about what was left and what was taking its place. There was also the fact that it had died on several previous occasions since it was created by ...
Associations With The Military - And Military Associations (22 March 1974)

TRM/059

During my early years in Bletchley, I met several men whose acquaintance with the town dated from the first world war. They had been sent here for training, had formed romantic attachments with local young ladies and had returned to marry them and settle down as Bletchley people. For that war, this district produced a large ...
Happy Memories Of Cars And Wet Tramlines (1 March 1974)

TRM/058

In the early 1960’s when the Gazette office was at the station end of Queensway, I used the Oliver Road car park. Regularly during the winter I noticed a 1934 Morris 10 parked there. I was interested because it brought back happy memories. One day it drew up alongside me and a woman got out of ...
Boer War Meant Bully & Biscuits All The Time (5 April 1974)

TRM/061

When you’ve shouted “Rule Britannia,” When you’ve sung “God Save the Queen,” When you’ve finished killing Kruger with your mouth, Will you kindly drop a shilling In my little tambourine For a gentleman in khaki ordered South? That was the top pop song of the Boer War, the 75th anniversary of which falls later this year. I was not born until six ...
Poised For A Leap Into A Tremendous Future (11 April 1974)

TRM/062

When all the natural excitement anent the take-over of Bletchley Urban Council by Milton Keynes Borough Council has subsided, it may well be that the most interesting thing to come out of it will be seen to be just 22 pages of the souvenir brochure produced for the Bletchley Pageant. In those pages the history of ...
Grim Deaths And Treasure Are All His Concern (19 April 1974)

TRM/063

With the retirement of Mr. John Smithie, Bletchley’s town manager, I can think of only one man prominent in local affairs who still holds the position he held when I came to this district in 1946. He is Mr. Edward T. Ray, who for the whole of that time, has occupied the ancient and honourable office ...
A Show Goes On And It's Another Milestone (26 April 1974)

TRM/064

The Milton Keynes Amateur Operatic society – formerly the Bletchley Amateur Operatic Society – reach a notable milestone this year. For Viva Mexico which they are beginning at Wilton Hall, Bletchley, on Saturday, May 4, will be their 21st annual production. Over the years the members have given many fine shows and I have reported them ...