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With My Two Votes I Knew I Had A Winner (4 May 1973)
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In this year’s county council elections I voted for a winning candidate. So rare has that experience been for me all my voting life that if you, dear reader, are working for a particular candidate in any kind of public election the best thing you can do is to persuade me to vote for the ...
That Reminds Me - Bletchley Leisure Centre (27 April 1973)
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I took advantage of a week’s holiday recently to inspect one of the large properties I have had built. It was not yet complete and I thought I had better see where all that money was going before it went too far. Others who had built it along with me, mainly ladies within about 15 years ...
33: NOW WOLVERTON’S A PLACE
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Now Wolverton’s a Place is one of Living Archive’s most iconic songs and was written by the late Paul Clark for the musical documentary play Sheltered Lives in 1983. This film was made under the guidance of Louise Roche by students on a Media Skills course in 1997. It features the late Arthur and Barbara ...
32: JAMES GOFF BIG BAND IN THE SECRET GARDEN
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For many years the Wolverton Secret Garden hosted free Summer Sunday concerts. This is an excerpt from one in 2010 where the James Goff Big Band played.
A Cheerful Bantering Lot Who Look After Their Own (19 April 1973)
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Surprisingly to me one of the first reactions I had to this series was from people interested by my piece about colliers and collieries. Then the Lofthouse incident happened and brought further requests. So here goes – just for you. First I should say that when I first heard the name of Lofthouse on a radio ...
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31: JOURNEY OF A TOILET ROLL IN TESCO
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Have you ever wondered about how supplies end up on a supermarket shelf? This film was made by students on a Living Archive Media Skills course, under the guidance of Louise Roche in about 1997.
Gone Is The Personal Touch Under A Cloud Of Numbers (13 April 1973)
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Recently the Post Office lumbered us all with a set of six letters and figures to remember. They represent part of our new postal address. And thus, as far as the Post Office are concerned, we no longer live in Bucks. We live in MK something or other. I don’t like it. Not that I blame ...
30: HORTICULTURAL SHOW AND WORKS OPEN DAY
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A couple of clips from an 8mm film shot by Ernie Arthur. Ernie’s films were rescued some years ago from a skip. The clips are of the Horticultural Show and a Railway Works Open Day. But what year is it? The clue is Saturday August 19th…
Enough Instruments To Restart The Old Town Band (6 April 1973)
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One Bletchley organisation which was revived after the war and which flourished for a decade but then sadly fell apart, was the town band. Occasionally meetings have been called in the hope of bringing it to life again, but so far without success. Leading spirit in the revival was Mr. Bill Axby, who was the bandmaster. ...
29: A GLANCE FROM A TRAIN
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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 ...
The Jolly Sort Of Lord Called Longford
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I suppose the name of Lord Longford means different things to different people. But whatever else it may mean it would be wrong to think of him as a killjoy. I can even tell you what he prefers in the shape of women’s legs. You see, Lord Longford was formerly Lord Pakenham. He was a great ...
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