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Audio recording of Chief Executive of David Lock Associates

DLA/010
Audio recording of one of original staff at David Lock Associates, now a Director

DLA/004
Audio recording of head of Graphic Design at David Lock Associates

DLA/003
Audio recording of founder of David Lock Associates

DLA/001

Interview covering foundation of David Lock Associates and scope of oral history project.
David Lock Associates

DLA

David Lock Associates’ is a collection of 18 oral history audio recordings, relating to the 21 year history of the eponymous firm of town planners and urban designers that was established in Milton Keynes on 1st November 1988. The 55 interviewees were all current (or in one case recently retired) directors and employees of the ...
Image 43. 'When you're talking about 250,000 people...' (Derek Walker)

CMK/002/043

City Centre plan 1980 from the railway station (l) to the belvedere of Campbell Park, showing ten proposed zones for shopping, business, professional use, law courts, police station, etc.
Image 27. Land use zones in Central Milton Keynes

CMK/002/027

”Diagrams… are the things that come out clean’ (Stuart Mosscrop). Plan of the City Centre from ‘The Planning of Milton Keynes, MKDC 1992. The diagram identifies, using colour, the following areas within the City Centre grid: Entertainment, Business, Shopping, Civic and Transport. Campbell Park is outlined in green.
Interview with Allen Duff (part 1)

CMK/001/012

Allen describes his education and career before appointment as a commercial surveyor in the MKDC Estates department in 1970; his background was commercial development, but for the first six months he and other surveyors were engaged in buying land. He then worked on developing the Brunel Centre, Bletchley and was allocated to the CMK team ...
Interview with Bill Clewett

CMK/001/011

Bill Clewett was a Milton Keynes resident; he looked out for the first jobs in the new town. He was recruited in 1970 by Kenneth Wren, the first finance director and came to do financial appraisals, to turn the Masterplan ‘into financial speak’: the cost of building Milton Keynes between 1970 and 2000 to a ...
Oral history audio recordings with Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC) staff.

CMK/001

A collection of oral history audio recordings of interviews with Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC) staff (architects, engineers, surveyors and managers) about the development of Central Milton Keynes (CMK). It also includes one interview with a local farmer whose land was compulsorily purchased by the Development Corporation. The interviews were carried out by Roger Kitchen ...
The Story of the Original Central Milton Keynes

CMK

A collection of source material for the Living Archive book ‘The Story of the original CMK’ about the development of Central Milton Keynes (CMK). The book was edited by Marion Hill, designed by Dylan Jeavons and published in 2007. The collection comprises oral history audio recordings of interviews with Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC) staff ...
Play Programme for Acacia Avenue performed by Gaddesden Training College Drama Group September 1950

CEG/002/014

Play Programme for Acacia Avenue performed by Gaddesden Training College Drama Group September 1950 in the Assembly Hall. A Comedy by Mabel and Dennis Constanduros. Admission by Programme. Ron Green helped with the creation of the sets