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  • 'Tramps' Complimentary Pass, 1977

    CSA/001/002
    'Tramps' Complimentary Pass, 1977
    Complimentary pass admitting two to the Tramps ‘Tuesday is Funky Night’ at the Brunel Centre on 4th October 1977, including advertisements of businesses in the local area.
  • 'Peaches Discotheque' Ticket

    CSA/001/001
    'Peaches Discotheque' Ticket
    Ticket admitting two to the ‘Peaches Discotheque’ at the Bistro Restaurant at the Brunel Centre in Bletchley. Dress smart/casual (strictly no denim).
  • A collection of leaflets and tickets of events in Bletchley, c.1975-1985

    CSA/001
    A collection of leaflets and tickets of events in Bletchley, c.1975-1985
    A collection of leaflets and tickets of events in Bletchley, c.1975-1985.
  • Chris Salmon Collection

    CSA
    Chris Salmon Collection
    A collection of leaflets and tickets of events in Bletchley, circa 1975-1985.
  • No Place For The Weak Or Ailing (19 November 1976)

    TRM/194
    No Place For The Weak Or Ailing (19 November 1976)
    Three business premises now occupy the site in Bletchley’s Queensway of two former semi-detached houses, in one of which I lived for three happy years.  Next door lived Mr Ray Holdom and family.  From there he carried on a music business previously run by his father.  In those days I used to do quite a ...
  • When The Killing Stopped (12 November 1976)

    TRM/193
    When The Killing Stopped (12 November 1976)
    In two or three days’ time it will be Remembrance Sunday.  Curiously enough, when that day comes round my thoughts turn not so much to that war of 30-odd years ago in which I was personally involved as to the war of 20-odd years before that – the war of 1914-1918. How can that be?  I ...
  • Half An Egg Is Better Than One...! (15 November 1976)

    TRM/192
    Half An Egg Is Better Than One...! (15 November 1976)
    How do you divide a raw egg into two equal parts, so that you have as much yolk and as much white in one half as you do in the other? No, I am not joking – at least, not all that much.  You see, since I began living on my own I have had to ...
  • Education Row... Heard It Before (29 October 1976)

    TRM/191
    Education Row... Heard It Before (29 October 1976)
    Every now and then a major row blows up over the subject of education.  It usually happens in times of economic stress.  This is hardly surprising.  Those holding the public purse-strings look round for costs that it might be possible to cut.  The education service is costly.  Its product is comparatively intangible. So it comes under ...
  • Hero Jim And The Runaway Train (22 October 1976)

    TRM/190
    Hero Jim And The Runaway Train (22 October 1976)
    One April morning in 1909 Bletchley Railway Guard Jim Bates set forth on a routine trip that was to make him a national hero before the day was out. Jim was a middling-sized man, aged 45, and lived in St. Martin’s Street.  He and his wife had several children and had just recently celebrated their silver ...
  • Scot Meat Products - A Trade Unionist Memoir by Reg Thomas

    Scot Meat Products - A Trade Unionist Memoir by Reg Thomas

    In 1965 I read an advertisement in The Meat Trade Journal that would change my life forever. It read ‘New ...
  • Calling all songwriters with a connection to Milton Keynes… PLEASE NOTE APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED

    Calling all songwriters with a connection to Milton Keynes… PLEASE NOTE APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED

    APPLICATIONS FOR THIS PROJECT ARE NOW CLOSED AND WE WILL BE IN TOUCH WITH ALL APPLICANTS IN DUE COURSE. THANK ...
  • Maverick Who Became A Baronet (6 October 1976)

    TRM/189
    Maverick Who Became A Baronet (6 October 1976)
    I wonder how many local people who saw the widely acclaimed thriller, Rogue Male, a week or two ago knew they were watching the 4th Leon baronet in action?  He took the part of the rascally Blackshirt major, who keeps the hero – played by Peter O’Toole – trapped in a burrow for a day ...
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