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Graham Smith Collection

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Photographs of Bletchley Railway Station in the middle of the 20th century, with a few photos of the construction of the Bletchley Flyover in 1958-60. The collection also includes eight Ordnance Survey maps of Bletchley dating from 1835 to 1956, and seven aerial photographs of Bletchley dating from 1929 to 1960 by “Aerofilms”. However, these ...
Photographs of Bletchley Railway Station

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Photographs of Bletchley Railway Station in the middle of the 20th century.
20: WOLVERTON 150 FESTIVAL

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In 1988 Wolverton had a week-long Festival to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first train on the London to Birmingham railway stopping at the brand new Wolverton Station in September 1838. Alan Herring recorded the events on his movie camera and Roger Kitchen later recorded the voices of some of the participants, to give ...
We've Had Our Own European Community Here For Years (26 January 1973)

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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 ...
19: OUR TRAM

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This film was made some years ago by the late Chris Bellchambers, son of the late Ray Bellchambers. Chris was a professional film-maker and he made this film at the special request of his Dad. It tells the story of the Wolverton to Stony Stratford tram. Our Tram is part of the Wolverton on Film 6 ...
Loos Problem Has Still Not Been Resolved (19 January 1973)

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When I first saw the photograph with this column – which for once in a while was after, not before the paper was published – I thought it would do me fine. No-one would recognise me from that. I did the photographer less than justice. Next day people in the town met me with grins and ...
See Fred Bavey's film of a VE Day street party in Wolverton here

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Watch Fred Bavey’s film of a street party in Wolverton (possibly Aylesbury Street?) here!
18: THE TUESDAY TEA DANCE

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Students on a Living Archive IT and Media Skills course in 1997 had to make films inspired by Wolverton. This is a portrait of the Tuesday Tea Dance held then at the Old Bath House Community Centre. The Tuesday Tea Dance is part of the Wolverton on Film 4 DVD, which can be purchased from our ...
If Something's Worth Doing, Give Yourself Plenty Of Time (12 January 1973)

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This week, my friends, I draw attention to three items of “news.” ITEM 1. Fears about the possible disappearance of some of the smaller local authorities and dissatisfaction because their work is already being frustrated have been expressed at a meeting of the Winslow Rural Council. ITEM 2. Because as yet there has been no announcement about ...
See our Home Front online exhibition here

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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 ...
17: EVACUEE MEMORIES

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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 ...
Clay Lands Us In The Usual Mess (5 January 1973)

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So the development corporation are determined to keep their new roads clean. I wish them luck; they have a big job on their hands – and feet – as all we older citizens of Bletchley know only too well. Remember the mess when lorries were running through the town for the making of the M1? Remember ...