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Ayser Ali Al-Jawad
MNC/020
Ayser was born in Iraq and lived in Baghdad with her family until 2001, when they came to England. Initially the family lived in Buckingham, where Ayser and her husband worked at the University, but then moved to Two Mile Ash. Back in Iraq, Ayser had trained as an architect and found MK to be ...
Brian Barton
MNC/019
Brian was born in London in 1969 and moved to Milton Keynes when he was 11 because his father, who worked for the BBC in a technical production job for the Open University, was offered a transfer from Alexandra Palace to Walton Hall. He knew nothing about Milton Keynes before he arrived, but, from the ...
Jamie Truan
MNC/018
Jamie is in his early 20s and works as a music teacher at the Radcliffe School in Wolverton, where he has lived all his life surrounded by family and friends. He is in his first year of teaching at Radcliffe and enjoys it very much. He plays piano, guitar and drums and is self-taught. He ...
Shona Driscoll
MNC/017
Shona was born in Glasgow in 1961. Her family made two unsuccessful moves to Bletchley before settling there when she was 13. Her education was disrupted and she had problems at school, but she went to the Compass Club. It became Counterpoint and her partner put on bands there like Chumbawamba and Conflict. She and her ...
Lou Tribus
MNC/016
Lou was born in Los Angeles in 1956 and moved to London in 1985. In 2015, after her marriage ended, she moved to Stony Stratford where she had friends. She worked for two years as a primary school teacher, then retired. She got involved with Stony Tracks at York House and the Stony Lantern Committee. ...
Karen Kodish
MNC/015
Karen was born in Portsmouth. She was brought up in London and was working in Stockport in IT when she moved to Milton Keynes. She moved because her company was relocating to the area. All she knew about Milton Keynes was the roundabouts and concrete cows. She’s been in the same flat in Shenley Lodge ...
Gwen Morgan
MNC/014
Gwen was born in Aberystwyth in the early 1970s and grew up on The Wirral, Merseyside. In the late 1990s to 2000s she programmed mainframe computers in London. She looked for jobs in software development and saw one in Milton Keynes. She’d seen Milton Keynes’ parks, rivers and redways from the train. When she visited, she decided ...
Celeste Bryant
MNC/013
Celeste Bryant was born in Milton Keynes in August 1998. She’s lived in Conniburrow, Beanhill and, currently, Heelands. She’s seen Milton Keynes grow and feels that it’s kind to animals, has many modern amenities and also has places to get away from it all. She feels that its different from cities she’s visited. Her special ...
Chris Mottram Wooster
MNC/012
Chris Mottram Wooster identifies as a lesbian and came out to her family in 1970. Living in High Wycombe, she was attracted to Milton Keynes by its newness, visiting friends to go to the gay disco at The Cannon. Chris is a jazz musician (playing bass) and previously an artistic woodturner. in 1980 her band ...
More News From The Belfry (7 April 1977)
TRM/212
To continue last week’s story of the bells . . . No-one knows for certain how long there have been bells at Bletchley St Mary’s. The Rev F W Bennitt, writing in 1924, assumed that the tower had been built in 1420 specifically to accommodate bells. I think it quite likely. But the only actual information ...
For Whom The Bell Tolled (1 April 1977)
TRM/211
When I was a boy in Yorkshire, I lived practically next door to the village church. It was a big building with a high tower, but it had only one bell, albeit a very sonorous one. The sexton rang the bell at certain regular times. If it sounded at any other time, it almost always ...
Happy 40th Birthday To Us!
On Sunday the 6th of October LAMK celebrated 40 years of creative placemaking in Milton Keynes with two sold-out celebratory ...
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