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  • Interview with Alan Morris (b.1955).

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    Interview with Alan Morris (b.1955).
    Alan Morris was born and grew up in Bletchley and talks about his childhood in the area before Milton Keynes was developed. He mentions the disappearance of the countryside, as well as other changes to the landscape due to urbanisation.

  • The People's History of Milton Keynes

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    The People's History of Milton Keynes
    The People’s History of Milton Keynes (PMK) was a three year project by the Living Archive aimed at collecting 300 plus recordings of Milton Keynes citizens by the end of January 2003. The collection comprised oral history audio recordings, still images and documents, relevant to the development of the new town of Milton Keynes, the ...

  • Olney Rugby Union Football Club

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    Olney Rugby Union Football Club
    A digital collection of photographs and memorabilia relating to Olney Rugby Union Football Club. This digital archive was created as part of the Living Archive’s England Rugby World Cup 2015 Project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Milton Keynes Council. Olney Rugby Club has 137 years of history, said to be without parallel in ...

  • John Dankworths 70th Birthday Party, film 1

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    John Dankworths 70th Birthday Party, film 1
    Film footage of John Dankworth’s 70th Birthday Concert on the lawn at The Stables, Wavendon, Milton Keynes held around September 1997. Tape Number One. The film starts with Richard Mann (then Stables Chairman) and Jackie Scott, the General Manager of The Stables, standing on a raised platform on the lawn. Behind the stage is a blue ...

  • Interview with Edna Eguchi Read

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    Interview with Edna Eguchi Read
    A filmed interview with Edna Eguchi Read in September 1997. During it Edna talks about how her childhood helped to influence her artistic career. She recalls how her half English, half Japanese heritage profoundly affected herself and her brother Ian growing up because of the tension between Japan and England during the Second World War. ...

  • Shapes of a City

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    Shapes of a City
    A John Hemson Associates short film about the sculptures in Milton Keynes. The film is narrated by Kate Moon with pieces by Ernest Bottomley and Robert Koenig. It was commissioned by Edna Reed, Artistic Director for Art in Milton Keynes and was written and produced by Michael Francis. The film starts with the title screen of ...

  • Miscellaneous films about Milton Keynes

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    Miscellaneous films about Milton Keynes
    11 films on miscellaneous subjects about Milton Keynes. It includes films on the football stadium and sculpture at the hub; Milton Keynes Safety Centre; the “Dream” balloon launch event; the Queen opening the hub; WW2 in Aspley Guise and Woburn Sands; a street party for the jubilee in Woburn Sands; general cosntruction views; the ...

  • Collection of film footage taken by John Hemson

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    Collection of film footage taken by John Hemson
    Collection of film footage shot by John Hemson in his private time documenting the development of Milton Keynes. It includes films of the building of parts of Milton Keynes, interviews and footage of concerts and plays. As of October 2023, only some of the films in this collection have been digitised.

  • Eva Hall (1902-c.2000) and Betty Hall (1904-c.2000) Hall: oral history audio recording.

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    Eva Hall (1902-c.2000) and Betty Hall (1904-c.2000) Hall: oral history audio recording.
    The sisters’ aunt was one of the first nine employees when McCorquodales started in Wolverton (1878). They worked in a disused railway carriage producing envelopes: the men cutting shapes and the women folding and gluing. As children, they received 3d pocket money. Sweets cost 1d per 2 ounces and bananas were 2d each. They received a ...

  • Eric Baldwin (1921-c.2010): oral history audio recording.

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    Eric Baldwin (1921-c.2010): oral history audio recording.
    The Assistant Master and Assistant Matron looked after the inmates’ welfare, set them to their tasks and did general administration. Inmates had to work for their keep. Men worked in the garden, the field and kept pigs, supervised by EB’s father. Women worked in the laundry and kitchen and did cleaning, largely supervised by staff ...

  • William May (1914-c.2000): oral history audio recording.

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    William May (1914-c.2000): oral history audio recording.
    New Bradwell was known as “Little Moscow”. It was socialist and militant, but not in a violent sense. The people worked well together for hospital funds, carnivals and the like. The one divide was religion, between Church of England, Methodist and Baptist. They did not mix, but this was not carried over into work. WM’s father, ...

  • Percy Mundy (1908-c.2000): oral history audio recording.

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    Percy Mundy (1908-c.2000): oral history audio recording.
    When PM was a child, there was no place called New Bradwell, just Stanton High, Stanton Low and Stantonbury. The old club in New Bradwell remained the Stantonbury Social Club. There was another club called the Progressive Club. He remembered the Hospital Fetes, which had “marvellous” processions of vehicles and the boys and girls dressed ...
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