Skip to content
Search:
Donate
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube
Instagram
A living history of
Milton Keynes
Home
About us
Local history
Archive
Events
Online Shop
Contribute
You are here:
Home
See what’s new
Female born in Pakistan 1992
MNC/074
She was born in Pakistan in 1992. She moved to Milton Keynes in February 2024 when her husband got a Skilled Worker Visa. Her brother had been living in Milton Keynes for 13 to 15 years. She moved to Wolverton, five minutes from her brother. She joined a WhatsApp group and enjoyed the social activities ...
Female born in Afghanistan 1976
MNC/073
She was born in Afghanistan in 1976. She moved to Milton Keynes in 2014 because she had family and friends there. She liked its neatness, cleanliness and green environment. She was unwell when she arrived and received good healthcare. She was a full-time housewife with a husband and four children. Her hobbies were making clothes and ...
Female born in Pakistan 1982
MNC/072
She was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1982. She moved to Milton Keynes with her family in 2018 at the suggestion of a friend and for the sports activities, especially cricket. In 2020 they moved to Buckingham for the children’s schooling. Her husband played cricket for Westcroft and she went to most of the cricket grounds, ...
Paige McGee
MNC/071
Paige was born in 1994 in Milton Keynes. Growing up, she enjoyed ice skating and going to local parks. She also remembers Activity Land, a children’s soft play/trampoline place. She went away to university in Winchester, and then to Manchester to do her teaching degree. She has worked at the Radcliffe School since 2019. She doesn’t ...
The Milton Keynes Songbook
Over the past 40 years we have produced performances from large-scale documentary musical theatre to BBC broadcast radio ballads. We ...
Izza Zir
MNC/070
Izza was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1982. She moved to the UK when she married in 2006. They lived in London and struggled to buy there, so moved to Milton Keynes in 2016. She had family in Toronto and Milton Keynes reminded her of there. They moved to Fairfields which was very quiet. Stony ...
The Mystery Of The Dead Queen
TRM/224
In one conversation with the late Mr Frank Howard, of Fenny Stratford, he told me that his son now occupied the farm at Newton Longville known as Dead Queen. ‘What could I make of a strange name like that?’ he asked me. At that point the conversation was interrupted and we never got round to ...
Hala Afify
MNC/069
Hala was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1964. She moved to the UK in 2004. She visited Milton Keynes when her husband became a locum surgeon at the Hospital. The family liked the bigger shops and Willen Lake. She was reminded of Houston, Texas. When he was offered a full-time post (circa 2019) they moved. ...
Amna Rehan
MNC/068
Amna was born in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1977. She moved to Milton Keynes in 2022 after visiting it and being impressed with the centre, the family activities and the parks. She was a trained artist and had just completed her Foundation in Art Therapy at Hertfordshire University. She had met other artists, including Salvation artists, ...
Lincoln Bedeau
MNC/067
Lincoln Bedeau came to the UK in 1973 as a child, from the West Indies. His father, a teacher, had to retrain and took labouring jobs while studying; when offered a job in CMK with accommodation, the family moved to Bradville in MK. At primary school, Lincoln was the only black child, but he got ...
The Lord Of The Manor Was Colonel's Foible (24 June 1977)
TRM/223
I spent an interesting half-hour or so at the recent Jubilee Exhibition of village relics at Little Brickhill. The exhibition was held in the former village school which is now the community centre, and the organisers could be complimented on bringing together a very nice assemblage of items from times gone by. Two items in particular ...
Chris Murphy
MNC/066
Chris was born in Bletchley Hospital in 1986. His father worked for Milton Keynes Development Corporation and his first home, in Great Linford, trialled solar energy. He went to school in Bedford and was a member of an Emo band, ‘Cut in Quarters’, which played at Zak’s, The Pitz and Esquires in Bedford. He started in ...
PAGE:
<< First
< Previous
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
Next >
Last >>
