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Oral history audio recording of Jim Jones (c.1890)

ALC/002

Interview about Wolverton, including working conditions and opportunities at Wolverton Works from 1904. Observations on local housing and personal and local anecdotes.
Oral history audio recording of Jack Rowledge (b.1905).

ALC/003

Interview covering working conditions and management at McCorquodales print works from 1918. Family life, outings and events in Wolverton.
Wavendon Advanced Factory unit Steelwork

RDY/02/001

Slide of the steel frame of an Advanced Factory Unit (AFU) in Wavendon with trees and pathway in the foreground
Model of an Advanced Factory Unit in Wavendon

RDY/02/003

Slide of a side view of an Advanced Factory Unit (AFU) consisting of a red steel framed shell with white walls
Wavendon Advanced Factory Unit central staircase

RDY/02/007

Slide of the central stairs in a Wavendon Advanced Factory Unit (AFU) with yellow and red colour scheme
Week 25: TRICKS OF THE TRADE

WOF/026

Roger Tanner describes some of the practical jokes that were played on young apprentices at Wolverton Railway Works.
Week 16: WOLVERTON’S INDUSTRIAL PAST

WOF/017

A film by Mark Cunliffe that explores Wolverton’s industrial past with the help of local resident Roger Kitchen. Industrial Past is part of the Wolverton on Film 3 DVD, which can be purchased from our on-line shop https://www.livingarchive.org.uk/content/online-shop/dvds If you enjoyed watching this film please consider clicking on the link below to make a £1 donation ...
Week 29: A GLANCE FROM A TRAIN

WOF/030

For this week’s Wolverton On Film Brad Bradstock and Eric Thompson create a lockdown version of their show A Glance From A Train. Funny and poignant, A Glance from a Train is a very different kind of show. It tells the true story of a community faced with traumatic upheaval including two World Wars. And just ...
Week 36: WOLVERTON & THE ROYAL TRAIN

WOF/037

It’s a testament to the reputation for craftsmanship that Wolverton Railway Works had that it is the place where many of the Royal Trains were built, and the current one is still stored today. Generations of Wolverton workers served on successive royal trains and also helped to build them and this film tells their story. The ...
From Rags To Riches, It's A Re-Cycling Tale (11 October 1974)

TRM/088

There is a good deal of talk nowadays about the need for a greater re-cycling of industrial and domestic “waste.” Quite rightly, it is pointed out that much material is now being dumped which, with a little ingenuity, could be reclaimed for further use. There is one material, however, which has been intensively re-cycled for 120 ...
Historical Polish For My Car (17 January 1975)

TRM/101

From time to time newspaper offices are invaded by students seeking information on local history or on some aspect of it for their theses. Quite often I myself used to be drawn into the exercise, though I could hardly afford the time. Sometimes I wondered what the eventual theses would be like. I never saw ...
Why Smoking Helps Make News (20 June 1975)

TRM/123

You may have been astonished by the recent cigarette-smoking confessions of five of the youngest members of the Gazette’s reporting staff. Frankly, I was not. I was astonished only at the fact that at times their consumption rose to as many as 30 cigarettes a day. I also felt a little envious that they could ...
The Working Wife Is Nothing New (30 May 1975)

TRM/120

For a few years after the second world war there were periodical auction sales of old furniture and other household articles at the Bletchley market place. One day I was nosing around there when I came upon a lace-making pillow. It was complete with pretty little bone bobbins inscribed with mottoes and messages of a ...
So Much For Hard Times Of 1975 (5 September 1975)

TRM/133

In my article last week on the summer weather I mentioned that according to one source of information 1921 was the driest year this century, with a rainfall of only about half the norm. I have special cause to remember that long warm summer, for my father was a coal miner and that year saw the ...
When Bletchley Had To Be B...Y (15 August 1975)

TRM/130

Local relics of the Second World War keep popping up. Each one is a reminder of the conditions in Bletchley and District at that time and of its total commitment to the war effort. The latest to come to my hand is a copy of a works magazine. It is not dated, but the contents seem ...
A Family's Brush With Industry (22 August 1975)

TRM/131

The pending closure of M A Cook and Sons’ brushworks in Victoria Road, Bletchley – a voluntary dissolution, not made for any financial reasons – will leave Beacon Brushes Ltd. the sole remaining representatives of an industry on which the town formerly relied for a good deal of its employment. Indeed, it is not too much ...
MPs or TUC - An Old Tale (14 May 1976)

TRM/168

“Law and order is on trial and is being assailed by the forces of disorder. The country has got to decide whether it will be governed in future by the House of Commons, that is, by chosen representatives, or whether it prefers to hand over that government to the TUC.” Does that sound familiar? Actually it ...
Sorry About Teafolk... (10 September 1976)

TRM/185

I am sorry to hear of the impending closure of the Tetley factory in Bletchley. Sorry not only for the more obvious reasons. But also on what might be called sentimental grounds. Tetley’s came to Bletchley in 1940, after their London premises had been bombed out and first occupied the factory at the corner of Osborne ...
The Great Oak Society (17 September 1976)

TRM/186

“Great oaks from little acorns grow” and a classic example are the Milton Keynes Co-operative Society. They began with threepenny-bits saved by working men. Today their turnover is reckoned in millions of pounds and they have just opened the first phase of a stores development in Bletchley whose cost, when completed next year, will also run ...