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The Wolverton On Film Collection

WOF

A dip into the history of Wolverton, captured on film and video. If you enjoy watching these films please consider clicking on the link below to make a £1 donation and help us make lots more films in the future! https://www.livingarchive.org.uk/content/about-us/make-a-donatio
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Words & music for Remembrance from the Living Archive Band’s recent concert in Turvey. Don’t forget you can buy a copy ...
Miscellaneous

HFC/003

A variety of items about Bletchley and Fenny Stratford, from the period 1920 to 1980.
Fenny Stratford Album

HFC/003/008

Fenny Stratford Album (a booklet of 60 pages) published in 1979 by the People’s Press of Milton Keynes. It is a collection of old photos and local stories from residents, mostly from the early 1900’s. Facing pages have a photograph and a corresponding story (for example Fenny Poppers, Papworth Trio, Fenny Schools)
Bletchley Operatic Society

HFC/002

A set of 23 items relating to the Bletchley (Amateur) Operatic Society, mostly from 1953 to 1960, comprising programmes, photographs, and newspaper cuttings.
Harrington Family Collection

HFC

A collection of items about the Harrington Family of Bletchley during the period 1871 to 1997, including documents, photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings. The family were noted for their shop in Victoria Street, Bletchley called HARRINGTONS HANDCRAFTS, which traded for 34 years. The family were active in the Bletchley Amateur Operatic Society in the 1950s ...
Harrington Family History

HFC/001

A set of 97 items about the history of the Harrington Family including documents, photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings. These 97 items were filed by the family into 18 plastic sleeves in a purple ring binder.
Interview with William George Tricks

MKS/01/020

William explains how he started skateboarding because it a free way of getting around and his first skateboard was a blue plastic flyer. The first place William skateboarded was at ‘The Hide’ which was local to him as he lived in Netherfield. He then became part of a small group who would skate together. He ...
Interview with Wig Worland

MKS/01/019
Interview with Nathan Lindsell

MKS/01/015

Nathan was about five or six when his mother would take him to the shopping centre in Farnborough where they would watch people skateboarding. He was given his first skateboard as a birthday present and he remembers doing acid drops off the kerbs outside his house. Nathan was attracted to start skateboarding through the photos he ...
Interview with James Jessop

MKS/01/008

James bought his first skateboard in 1983 for £1 and describes his first experience of the skate park at Knebworth amusement park where he was mind blown by the noises that skating made. From then onwards, whenever he attended birthday parties at Knebworth, he would ask to go to the skate park. It was on ...
Interview with Josh Lock

MKS/01/010

Josh was four when he moved from Luton to Milton Keynes in 1991. Josh always remembers having a skateboard and going down scaffolding planks in his parents’ garden on it. It was when he was eleven that he began to take it more seriously. His first time skateboarding in Milton Keynes was after seeing skateboarding at ...