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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.
Oral history audio recordings of George Boddington (1906-1986).

ALC/004

Three interviews referring to documents and memorabilia relating to the Post Office at McCorquodales the printers. Early family history, war service and social events in Wolverton.
See our Home Front online exhibition here

VED

Welcome to our online exhibition about life on the Home Front in the local area during World War II. Click on the downloadable PDF to have a look at words and images from local people as they talk about their lives and experiences during this time, as now we celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE ...
See Fred Bavey's film of a VE Day street party in Wolverton here

VED/001

Watch Fred Bavey’s film of a street party in Wolverton (possibly Aylesbury Street?) here!
Week 17: EVACUEE MEMORIES

WOF/018

On May 8th 2020 we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. In 2002 the late Eve Swannell talked to children at Bushfield School about her experience of coming to the area as an evacuee in 1939. Evacuee Memories is part of the Wolverton on Film 4 DVD, which ...
Week 56: A GLIMPSE OF WOLVERTON

WOF/059

This film was made specially for a screening at a street party in Cambridge Street in 2013 as part of the 175th anniversary of the first train stopping at Wolverton Station in 1838.
Week 59: BUSHFIELD PLAYGROUND RHYMES

WOF/061

In 2000 Living Archive MK and the Open University linguistics department worked with the community of Wolverton on exploring language and accents between the generations. As part of that, people were asked to recall playground rhymes. In this film 4 children from Bushfield School, Ruby, Rochelle, Sydney and Claudra give 5 examples of playground rhymes ...
Hawtin's Tales 4 - My First Bike & Crime

HAW/004

Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories of getting his first bike and a brush with the law.
Hawtin's Tales 3 - Nicknames & Wasps

HAW/003

Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories of childhood nicknames and the perils of poking a wasp nest.
Hawtin's Tales 1 - Birth

HAW/001

Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories of his birth and early childhood.
Hawtin's Tales 2 - Great Linford to New Bradwell

HAW/002

Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories of the family moving from his birth place in Brackley to Great Linford and ...
Hawtin's Tales 5 - My First Romance

HAW/005

Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, he recounted his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories of his first girlfriend.
Hawtin's Tales 7 - Toilets and Backways

HAW/007

Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories of outside toilets and the pranks he and other children played on unsuspecting occupants.
Thanks And Relief Thanks To The Doc (14 June 1976)

TRM/071

For many years after the war the local area Medical Officer was that genial Irishman, Dr. D.H. Waldron. Carl Moser, then Editor of the Gazette, and I first meet (sic) him over a cup of tea at the opening of the first council house in Whiteley Crescent, which was one of Bletchley’s earliest post-war estates. He ...
The Family Bible Reveals Clues To A Doctor's Dynasty (9 August 1974)

TRM/079

A factor that made me feel more at home when I first came to Bletchley was the presence here of a number of other Yorkshiremen who were in fairly prominent positions in the town and had been for years. Men like Mr. R.L. Sherwood, who was clerk of the urban council, Mr. E.C. Cook, who ...
Hawtin's Tales

HAW

Welcome to Hawtin’s Tales. Born in 1896, Bradwell man Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. His memories have inspired two books and a documentary play. Here Brad Bradstock retells Hawtin’s memories of growing up in New Bradwell, Great Linford and points beyond…⁠ You can watch them all on our Vimeo channel below.
The Bucks That Is Now A Memory (12 December 1975)

TRM/147

A book to be treasured has been compiled by members of the Bucks Federation of Women’s Institutes. It is entitled ‘’A Pattern of Hundreds’’ and is published by Richard Salder Ltd, of Chalfont St Giles. In it, people like 97-year-old Mrs Eliza Gladwin, of Old Bletchley, recall the days of their childhood and youth, and in ...