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  • Interview with Carter Hewlett

    MKS/01/003
    Interview with Carter Hewlett
    Carter describes the first time he encountered skateboarding and his first time skateboarding locally in Bletchley when he was fourteen. Carter and his crew would spend eight hours a day at the Buszy -the Bus Station. Carter started to film skateboarding when he was fifteen with a Hi8 video camera. The first skate film Carter made ...

  • Interview with Steve Martin

    MKS/01/018
    Interview with Steve Martin
    Steve first encountered skateboarding in 1976 on an entertainment television programme called ‘’Seaside Special’’ or ‘‘Summertime Special’’. He said it ‘totally blew his mind’ seeing the people on this programme skateboard. He got his first skateboard the day after at Neal’s toyshop in Bletchley. He used it in the underpass in the Brunel Centre and ...

  • Interview with Ryan Mark Gray

    MKS/01/017
    Interview with Ryan Mark Gray
    Ryan’’s first experience of skateboarding was through his neighbour at his local park. Ryan grew up in Yorkshire where the main source of skating was through magazines and videos. He compares this to today when it is more accessible through social media. When he first saw how suitable Milton Keynes was for skateboarding, he visited ...

  • Interview with Dean John Edwards

    MKS/01/004
    Interview with Dean John Edwards
    Dean first encountered skateboarding when a couple of boys brought skateboards into school and he was ‘’blown away’’. Dean’’s mother bought him his first board in 1987. There were few places to skate when Dean lived in Towcester, so he would join his parents when they visited Milton Keynes and skate whilst they went shopping. ...

  • Interview with Nathan Lindsell

    MKS/01/015
    Interview with Nathan Lindsell
    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
    Interview with James Jessop
    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
    Interview with Josh Lock
    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 ...

  • Interview with Mark Calape

    MKS/01/013
    Interview with Mark Calape
    Mark, nicknamed Swarf, moved to in Milton Keynes in 1990 because his father got a job with Milton Keynes Council. Mark was introduced to skateboarding through his father, who tried to show him how to make a board jump. His first skateboard was a cheap £20 board from Argos. Mark’s friends then took up skateboarding ...

  • Interview with Andrew Armes

    MKS/01/001
    Interview with Andrew Armes
    Andrew was part of the architects department for Milton Keynes Council, which included the design of a new master plan for the centre of the city in 1999. Andrew was keen to be involved and felt that the shopping centre needed to be updated. The master plan was to cover four hundred hectares; from the ...

  • Interview with John Aldridge

    MKS/01/009
    Interview with John Aldridge
    John first encountered skateboarding at the Bus Station in Milton Keynes. He remembers looking eagerly on the bus whenever he went past and thinking it was ‘really cool’. John got his first skateboard when he was twelve or thirteen and remembers skateboarding in Bletchley. John’s parents were supportive of his hobby. When the Bus Station opened ...

  • Interview with Chris Ince and Jennifer Ince

    MKS/01/005
    Interview with Chris Ince and Jennifer Ince
    Chris and Jennifer lived in Springfield, in Milton Keynes. They were on holiday when they and their two sons were introduced to skateboarding whilst staying at a camping site in Holywell Bay, near Newquay. They both hired boards and met friends who shared their love for it. They explain how Milton Keynes became popular with skateboarders ...

  • Interview with Steven Ince and Damian Ince

    MKS/01/006
    Interview with Steven Ince and Damian Ince
    Steven remembers his first encounter with skateboarding in Springfield, where Paul Picket had a chicken board and was chased down the street. Both of their first experiences using a skateboard was when they went on holiday in Cornwall, where they hired skateboards from the skate park. The first professional skateboard Damian bought was from Jaime’’s ...
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