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Recreation In Perpetutity For Everyone (1 October 1976)
TRM/188
August 7, 1899, was a red-letter day in the annals of Fenny Stratford, for it saw the opening of the Leon Recreation Ground to the public “in perpetuity for ever.” A crowd estimated at over 4,000 turned up for the event – a remarkable figure considering that the population of the Fenny urban council’s area, which ...
Two men in an office
CPA/018/004
Two men in an office.
The Cuba - landlord and landlady
CPA/013/003
The County Arms pub – landlord and landlady – New Bradwell
Community Photographic Archive Collection
CPA
A collection of photographs (mostly taken in the 1980s) that were donated by the Milton Keynes Mirror newspaper. They include images of all sorts of people and events from all over Milton Keynes and the surrounding area. The archivists at the Living Archive have sorted them into 29 categories. There are a further 2000 pictures ...
Milton Keynes Mirror Local Photographs 1981
CPA/001
My Fenny Stratford Childhood - Dawn Cousins (nee Hart)
MY FENNY STRATFORD CHILDHOOD Dawn Cousins (nee Hart) Having recently by chance spoken with someone who knew Fenny Stratford I was prompted to ...
Aid Came First From The Railmen (24 September 1976)
TRM/187
My congratulations to the Bletchley St. John Ambulance Brigade on reaching the 50th anniversary of their formation. Theirs is a long and honourable story of voluntary public work if ever there was one. Actually, first-aid work in Bletchley goes back a good deal further than 50 years. As with so many other movements in the then ...
The Great Oak Society (17 September 1976)
TRM/186
“Great oaks from little acorns grow” and a classic example are the Milton Keynes Co-operative Society. They began with threepenny-bits saved by working men. Today their turnover is reckoned in millions of pounds and they have just opened the first phase of a stores development in Bletchley whose cost, when completed next year, will also run ...
Sorry About Teafolk... (10 September 1976)
TRM/185
I am sorry to hear of the impending closure of the Tetley factory in Bletchley. Sorry not only for the more obvious reasons. But also on what might be called sentimental grounds. Tetley’s came to Bletchley in 1940, after their London premises had been bombed out and first occupied the factory at the corner of Osborne ...
On The Costa Cymru . . . (3 September 1976)
TRM/184
One thing about this summer – it has been ideal for camping holidays. In fact, you have scarcely needed a tent, except for the occasional bit of privacy. Very recently I spent nine glorious days and nights camping on the Costa Cwmry or Cymru, whichever is Welsh for Wales. Incidentally, you don’t have to bother much ...
Singing Through The Years (27 August 1976)
TRM/183
It is now a full 30 years, if not a little longer, since the Bletchley Community Centre Ladies Choir began their so far unbroken run of music-making. This makes then the oldest secular musical organisation in Bletchley, and possible in North Bucks. The centre – formerly the Temperance Hall – in George Street was organised during ...
Elephant And A Squashed Bentley (20 August 1976)
TRM/182
As we are now into what we used to call the “silly season” I will content myself this week with telling a tale or two. The first concerns a dog named Towzer. He belonged to Mr Alfred Duffield, who with his brother Frank used to keep a men’s outfitting shop in Aylesbury Street, Fenny Stratford. One morning ...
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