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  • The Folk On The Green Collection

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    The Folk On The Green Collection
    A collection of interviews with people connected with Stony Stratford’s Folk On The Green. This event takes place on Horsefair Green every year in June, and is one of MK’s greatest (and worst-kept) “best-kept secrets”. You can watch some of the interviews on our YouTube channel here: The Folk On The Green Collection (LAMK 2024-5) – ...
  • Club Where Members Got The Bird (4 November 1977)

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    Club Where Members Got The Bird (4 November 1977)
    Many new organisations have arisen in Milton Keynes and some have arisen only to flop.  But have you heard of the Sparrow Club?  I confess I was totally ignorant about it until two or three weeks ago.  Which is not surprising, seeing that its period of greatest activity was the early part of this century ...
  • Don't Let Us "Myth" The Point (28 October 1977)

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    Don't Let Us "Myth" The Point (28 October 1977)
    Oh dear, we really are getting into a tucker about Magiovinium, aren’t we?  With one expert saying one thing and another apparently saying the opposite, what are mere mortals to think, say and do? Perhaps we can best begin by getting rid of the idea that Magiovinium is a myth or a legend.  The Antonine Itinerary, ...
  • The Preacher Who Talked of "Geeover" (21 October 1977)

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    The Preacher Who Talked of "Geeover" (21 October 1977)
    To my mind one of the most interesting photographs the Gazette has had for some time was that published two or three weeks ago which showed Mrs Diana Weale, of Wychwood Farm, Mursley, using a plough drawn by two fine heavy horses.  The horses were pulling abreast and that is how I remember ploughing being ...
  • Close-up of ivy climbing a post

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    Close-up of ivy climbing a post
  • Soccer Hooligans of 70 Years Ago (14 October 1977)

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    Soccer Hooligans of 70 Years Ago (14 October 1977)
    In my fairly recent article about 81-year-old Mr Cecil Hands, of Clifford Avenue, Bletchley, I deliberately abstained from any reference to the activity for which he is still remembered best of all by many old stagers.  This was his prowess on the soccer field.  He hung up his boots on his marriage in 1927, but ...
  • 67: GREENLEYS FIRST SCHOOL AT WOLVERTON LANTERN FESTIVAL 2024

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    67: GREENLEYS FIRST SCHOOL AT WOLVERTON LANTERN FESTIVAL 2024
    Greenleys First School children regularly contribute to Wolverton Lantern Festival. Here is a film about their work for the 2024 Festival (postponed until January 2025 because of bad weather)
  • More Bells For The Jubilee (7 October 1977)

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    More Bells For The Jubilee (7 October 1977)
    In the temporary absence of anything world-shattering in my line of country, I append a few more notes on local church bells and bell-ringers. In February, 1946, Mr George Grove, of Church Street, Fenny Stratford, retired after 54 years of ringing the bells of St Martin’s.  For many of those years he was bellmaster and he ...
  • Tenants Made Their Protests Over Rents (30 September 1977)

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    Tenants Made Their Protests Over Rents (30 September 1977)
    I wonder how many people recall the Bletchley rent strike of 1948?  Though the strike was never comprehensive and very quickly flickered out, it created quite a stir at the time. In those days, special extension of Bletchley was yet to come, but the town was getting on with its own housing programme and post-war council ...
  • The Changing Scene at Harvest Time (23 September 1977)

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    The Changing Scene at Harvest Time (23 September 1977)
    The other day I saw a good deal of harvesting going on in the countryside.  I did not notice a combine harvester anywhere.  Maybe conditions were still too wet for that, or else the fields concerned were too small.  But the songs of the birds were drowned for the time being by the throb of ...
  • 2 images of the windmill framed by trees

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    2 images of the windmill framed by trees
  • The windmill with its stone wall surround

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    The windmill with its stone wall surround
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