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John Clough

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John Clough was born in 1969 and started working for Abbey National in 1987 in the Milton Keynes branch. He progressed to Mortgage Advisor, then Kempston Branch Manager, then a branch in Lloyds Court and then into Fraud at Head Office in 1992. His personal highlights were the early days in Fraud and getting the ...
Aran Lemaur

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Aran Lemaur was born in Spain in 1990. She first came to England, to London, in 2009, but returned to Spain the following year because university tuition fees were so high. She graduated with a degree in Translation in Servicing. After working in Spain, she joined a company in Cambridge in the fashion industry in ...
Scott Lo

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Scott was born and raised in Norwich after his parents emigrated from Hong Kong to start a new life in the UK. His parents ran a Chinese takeaway. Scott spoke only Cantonese until he went to school. During his teenage years he helped prepare meals in the takeaway – mostly cooking fried rice. After University Scott ...
Chinwe Osaghae

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Chinwe Osaghae was born in June 1965 in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. She came to the UK to visit her mother after graduating and stayed. She moved to Milton Keynes with her husband in August 2012. She’d known about the green spaces – but not the concrete cows – before she moved. They settled in Oldbrook ...
Victoria Butterworth

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Victoria was born in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire in June 1986. She first visited Milton Keynes in 2014 for a shopping trip with her husband. She knew nothing about it before the visit. They walked from the station to the shops and she was taken by all the trees. She had her photo taken with the ...
Tim Skelton

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Tim was born in Norfolk in 1954. He joined Milton Keynes Development Corporation in 1979 as a Negotiation Surveyor in the Private Housing Unit. He rented a flat in Fishermead (which he later bought) and joined the Hockey Club. He was in the Corporation tent for the Homeworld exhibition to advise people about self-build plots. He ...
Sheniah Asiamah

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Sheniah Asiamah was born and raised in Milton Keynes, living in Stantonbury until she was 10 when she then moved to Neath Hill. Sheniah grew up with Caribbean influence; her mother is from Jamaica and she was regularly involved in activities held by a predominantly West Indian church. Sheniah attended Stantonbury Secondary school, a school ...
Laxman Kastala

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Laxman Kastala talks of his young life in Southern India and his move to the UK after graduation in 2005; after three years in Crawley, he found better job opportunities in MK in in the manufacturing industry. MK’s main benefit to him was its central location, also he heard it was modern tand a good ...
Tim Searle

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Born in London, Tim came to MK with his family in 1972, having seen the (‘brilliant’) MK Design Centre Exhibition. Despite all the mud (!), it was an exciting place to grow up; he recalls life as a teenager and all the new developments. Educated at Stantonbury Campus, he praises his art teacher, Graham Mills. ...
Mohammed Mujeeb Roman

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Mohammed was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. He describes his happy childhood surrounded by friends and relatives; he was a sporty child. But when he was 17, and preparing for his final exams, the family were forced to evacuate Kabul as the Taliban began to take control. Mohammed describes what he refers to as the ‘hellish ...
Roy Nevitt

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Roy was born in 1939 in Brighton. His first job was teaching English in Marlow. He produced school plays and realised that kids learned more quickly through drama than in the classroom. He became Head of Drama in Market Drayton. Before that, he was sent on a drama course at Keele University. He met Peter ...
Adrian Moss

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Adrian Moss was born in 1963 in Lancashire. He moved to Milton Keynes in 1984 when he got a job at Hanslope Park. He wanted to live somewhere close enough to work to cycle, so his first home was a rented bedroom in Plowman Close, Greenleys. After four months he bought a motorbike. In July ...

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