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  • Bletchley Youth Centre Concert Tickets

    BYC/001
    Bletchley Youth Centre Concert Tickets
    During the early 1970s the Bletchley Youth Centre (under the leadership of Barrie Field) ran a Sunday live concert night called Esmeralda’s. Bands that became world famous performed, including Genesis, Status Quo, Arthur Brown, Black Sabbath, Van Der Graaf Generator, Wishbone Ash, Kevin Ayers and Strawbs. This collection of 64 tickets records many of those ...

  • Bletchley Youth Centre Collection

    BYC
    Bletchley Youth Centre Collection
    The Bletchley Youth Centre was established in 1968 to provide a venue for the young people of Bletchley. The most unique thing about this collection is the 64 tickets for concerts by bands that would often become world famous, such as Genesis, Status Quo and Black Sabbath. Also included are various documents and photographs of ...

  • Van Der Graaf Generator ticket

    BYC/001/008
    Van Der Graaf Generator ticket
    Van Der Graaf Generator and Wishbone Ash ticket. Member price 7/-

  • Viktoriya Shtanko

    MNC/011
    Viktoriya Shtanko
    Viktorya was born in Ukraine and came to the UK in the early 2000s on a student visa after which she obtained employment which brought her to Milton Keynes in 2008. She moved to Warwickshire for a period to pursue her career but returned to MK in 2013 to settle down and start a family. ...

  • Asma Moustaoui

    MNC/010
    Asma Moustaoui
    Asma Moustaoui was born in 1990 in Morocco .and moved to MK in 2013 on marriage, since her husband (now ex-husband) lived there. She knew very little about MK but learned that there was plenty of green space. She appreciates MK’s climate and atmosphere, having come from Marrakesh, which is very hot and full of ...

  • Remi Ajibola

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    Remi Ajibola
    Remi Ajibola moved to MK with her mother and sisters as a child in 2008, to join her father who worked there. All her schooling was in MK, but the family have lived in several MK areas in council housing, now in Fullers Slade. Remi remembers that in MK she always felt a great sense ...

  • Janice Quigley

    MNC/008
    Janice Quigley
    Janice Quigley came to MK in her mid-20s in 1987, to escape the busy atmosphere of London. Her best friend lived in MK and Janice knew that the city was very green, and there were plenty of walks. and that attracted her. After initial temporary housing she obtained rental housing from MKDC and in 1996 ...

  • Tina Curtis

    MNC/007
    Tina Curtis
    Tina was born in 1976, a year after her parents moved to Milton Keynes. She is known as ‘Hench’, a nickname from Roller Derby, which she played for 10 years. She identifies as a lesbian, coming out as gay aged 18; she recalls how she became certain of being gay, and the reactions of family ...

  • Rooda Abdillahi

    MNC/006
    Rooda Abdillahi
    Rooda was born in Somalia in 1979 and moved to MK from Holland in 2014. She lives in Bletchley now. She was drawn to MK because she had family here; she also liked the green landscaping and the diversity of the population. She thought it would be a good place for her children to grow ...

  • Julian Pentz

    MNC/005
    Julian Pentz
    Julian was born in Switzerland and moved to MK in 1971 as a result of his nuclear physicist father being appointed as first Dean Of Science at the newly-formed Open University. The family initially moved onto the Lakes Estate and then to Great Woolstone. He remembers the mud and the new developments being built; many ...

  • Joshua Yon

    MNC/004
    Joshua Yon
    Joshua was born in Harare (Zimbabwe) in 1997. He moved to MK in 2007 with his family and lived on Fullers Slade, which was a culture shock although there were similarities with life in Zimbabwe due to the UK’s colonial influence. He feels that part of Milton Keynes’s core identity is in maintaining its green ...

  • Jill Hawkins

    MNC/003
    Jill Hawkins
    Jill moved to Galley Hill in MK from Windsor in the early 70s because her father got a new job here. They were allocated a new Council house and were the first family to live in it. She remembers it as a very safe place, growing up and playing out in the streets. They then ...
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