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View inside the Loco Shed on 23rd June 1965, just before closure.

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View inside the Loco Shed on 23rd June 1965, just before closure. The two sand containers with slanting tops can be seen between No3 and 4 roads and 5 and 6 roads. A sand bucket for filling engine sand boxes can be seen near container between 3 and 4 roads. It can be seen that ...
At Newport Pagnell on Nobby's last day

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At Newport Pagnell on Nobby’s last day
Arthur Grigg Photos

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335 photographs of all kinds of people, places and rolling stock associated with the railways near to Bletchley
Arthur Grigg Railway Collection

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Arthur Grigg was a railwayman who was not only a train driver and a railway union (NUR) official, but he also published a number of books about the railways in and around Bletchley. This collection of over 400 Photographs and Photographic Slides, dating from the 1840s to the 1970s, were used in those books.
Q:alliance Oral History Project 2025

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During 2025 Living Archive worked with Q:alliance to record the stories and memories of people from the LGBTQ+ community in Milton Keynes. This collection of interviews captures the personal journeys, activism, and community contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals in Milton Keynes across several decades. This project was made possible with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Pests And Their Extermination Down The Ages (16 September 1977)

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I recently returned home after three or four days’ absence and found ants having a high old time in the kitchen cabinet. The attraction was just two boiled sweets which I had forgotten were in there. I never mind the old insect or two, but there were hundreds of these things. Fortunately, there is a ...
To All Who May Remember Herby (9 September 1977)

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Most people remember with affection the place they were reared wherever they might be and however old they are. Such a person was Mr Herbert Purcell. Known to his friends as “Herby,” he was born at Fenny at about the turn of the century and emigrated to Australia in 1919 or 1920. He died recently in ...
Food And The Family Budget (2 September 1977)

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I suppose everybody nowadays is concerned about the cost of living. Among the less well-to-do, the cost of food is said to be the main problem. This applies especially to retirement pensioners and most particularly to elderly widows and widowers living alone who have neither the means to buy in bulk, nor to pack their ...
Marion Hill: Living Archive MK's first Honorary Life President

At its meeting in March 2025 the Living Archive Milton Keynes Board unanimously agreed to ask Marion Hill whether she ...
Unchanging - Despite The Changes (26 August 1977)

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Along with my son and daughter-in-law, I spent three days in my old stamping ground, Yorkshire, two weeks ago. It was not a pleasure visit, far from it, but we did manage to have one day in the Dales – or just one dale, to be exact. There are five or six main dales, leading ...
Cecil's Transport Business Was Fit For A King (19 August 1977)

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Come September I shall have held a driving licence for 40 years. So, although there have been many years when I have used it very little, I was beginning to think of myself as something of a veteran – until the other day. Then I chatted with an old acquaintance who had held a licence from ...
The Day They Prayed For Profit (12 August 1977)

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One day in 1950 two men came into the Gazette’s original office in the approach road to Bletchley’s Central Gardens. They told me they were setting up a Trustee Savings Bank in Bletchley, but needed a number of suitable persons to act as local trustees, and did I know any? I was hazy about such banks, ...