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Denbigh And The Danes (5 August 1977)

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In my recent article headed “A town by other names” I referred to a story that at one time the old Denbigh Hall Inn was known as the Marquess of Granby. I called it just a story because I had a lurking feeling of having heard it discounted at some time somewhere. Since writing the article ...
Colin Savage

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Colin was born in Dulwich in 1959. His family moved to Chetwode and, after leaving school, he became a herdsman. He joined MKDC in the Hard Works Section, then became a Ranger. He was an Area Ranger for the south of the city from day one of the Parks Trust. Many of the parks, like Shenley ...
Visit From His Worship The Sweep (29 July 1977)

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I suppose that any chimney sweep still operating in West Bletchley will not have as much work to do after the Clean Air Act comes into force there later this year. Chimney sweeps follow an ancient and honourable craft, even if – unlike broderers, horners, loriners and cordwainers – they are not represented among the ...
Photographs of the Wolverton Works

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Photographs of the Wolverton Works
A Town By Other Names (22 July 1977)

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Milton Keynes Borough Council have set themselves a nice problem in attempting to divide Bletchley into easily definable areas. The suitable naming of areas, roads and streets has been an interest of mine ever since the day, 24 years ago, when I returned to my house in St George’s Road, West Bletchley, to find bags of ...
City Link With TV's Sister Dora (12 July 1977)

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I wonder how many people know that Sister Dora, heroine of the much-acclaimed television biography, was village schoolmistress at Little Woolstone and that in her spare time she tended the sick there out of sheer sympathy before going on to do for hospitals in general what Florence Nightingale had done for military hospitals only a ...
Gill Bryan

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A joint interview with Barbara Major. Barbara Mayor and Gill Bryan talk about their involvement with supporting the Afghani women who were brought to Harben House, Newport Pagnell from 2021-2022. Initially the aim was to teach them about the British way of life, but despite the use of translators, this was difficult. In connection with a ...
Justin Tunley

MNC/078

Justin Tunley has lived in MK since he was 10 and in 1995 he was approached to design a piece of art to celebrate the 10th anniversary of MK Housing Association and their rebrand as Midsummer Housing. The brief was to use something related to the Midsummer Housing logo of a sundial and so Justin ...
Julie Dawes

MNC/077

Julie has worked as Events & Community Engagement Manager at The Parks Trust for the past 14 years. The Parks Trust run over 500 events in MK’s parks annually, and Julie’s job is to work with different communities and user groups to help them stage their events, and to support The Parks Trust’s volunteer team. Julie’s ...
The Fire That Brought The Roof Down (8 July 1977)

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A recent Gazette item reminded me of the singularly disastrous fire which occurred at the Willen vicarage in 1946. The vicar at the time was the Rev A M Berry. He had spent a great part of his life as a schoolmaster and was now in his 80’s. He was the civil parish’s representative on ...
David Wolfson

MNC/076

David is Chairman of the Trustees of Milton Keynes Canals and also part of the management group for Electra, MK’s all-electric community narrowboat, in association with The Parks Trust. Electra was launched for passenger trips in 2020, and since then it has carried about 2000 passengers per year on trips up and down the canal, ...
Female interviewed 2024

MNC/075

There is no summary of this interview available as it was conducted in Pashto, but an audio file can be made available on request.

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