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  • MK HipHop

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    MK HipHop
    Living Archive celebrates MK Hip Hop culture Living Archive is running a major new Arts Council-funded project, shining a spotlight on Milton Keynes’s rich Hip Hop scene. In partnership with the OU’s OpenLearn, MÓTUS Dance, MK Council and others, we are celebrating the past, present and future of local Hip Hop, through the voices, moves and creativity ...

  • Back To The City: The Exhibition Panels

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    Back To The City: The Exhibition Panels
    In 2023 we put a call out for your memories of the local nightlife, resulting in donations of photos, flyers, memorabilia and more which led to a hugely successful exhibition at the Central Library for Heritage Open Days 2023, the creation of a documentary film celebrating MK’s most iconic after-dark landmark, The Point, and this ...

  • Back To The Point - documentary film

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    Back To The Point - documentary film
    In 1985 a brand new entertainment complex opened in Milton Keynes. Housed in an iconic ziggurat-shaped building The Point housed bars, restaurant, bingo hall and a night club and the first multi-screen cinema In the UK. The much-loved building is now in a derelict state and its future uncertain. In this documentary film from Living Archive ...

  • Back To The City: The Point

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    Back To The City: The Point
    For MK Heritage Open Days in 2023, we staged a Down Memory Lane event inside The Point. Visitors came and reminisced about the heyday of this once-iconic part of MK’s nighttime economy. We filmed some of them talking about their memories and this became the basis for our documentary film Back To The Point, which ...

  • Back To The City - The 1980s & 1990s Nightlife Of Central Milton Keynes

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    Back To The City - The 1980s & 1990s Nightlife Of Central Milton Keynes
    Did you live your best life at Zazoos, Austens 2000, Bar Central, Cafe Moonshine, Directors, Empire, the Rose & Castle, The City Duck and all those other bars, clubs and pubs that are now part of Central MK’s vanished history? Did you party at The Point, get happy at Happy Wednesdays or put your hands ...

  • How The News Has Changed Its Face (26 August 1978)

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    How The News Has Changed Its Face (26 August 1978)
    Learning Pitman’s shorthand, old edition (which many old reporters believe was actually faster than any revised edition brought out since).  The first things to learn about abbreviated longhand was what not to abbreviate, chief of which were the words `not’, `no’ and `never’.  It was hoped this would help to prevent disasters such as “He ...

  • City's Monument To Flour Power (19 August 1978)

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    City's Monument To Flour Power (19 August 1978)
    I liked the recent Gazette item about the old windmill at Bradwell and how a young man was attempting to make it operational again on a do-it-himself basis.  All power to his elbow. When I first came to this district and travelled on the old “Nobby Newport” train from Wolverton to Newport Pagnell I used to ...

  • The Other Men Behind Those Inventions (12 August 1978)

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    The Other Men Behind Those Inventions (12 August 1978)
    One of the interest of growing old is not only how we live and learn, but also how we live and unlearn.  That thought struck me the other day when a talk touching on the subject of television was given by a man on the wireless – or on the radio, as it is now ...

  • Richard's Powerful Passion For 'Arc' (5 August 1978)

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    Richard's Powerful Passion For 'Arc' (5 August 1978)
    When I called at the Gazette office the other week I was told that a Mr. Richard Griffiths, from the Bradwell Abbey Field Centre, had been asking after me and did I know him? Oh yes, I knew him very well up to my retirement over five years ago, but I understood that he had returned ...

  • An Old Man In A New Town (29 July 1978)

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    An Old Man In A New Town (29 July 1978)
    The old man walked slowly along The Concourse.  Normally, he wouldn’t have been there at all, but it had come on to rain outside.  Idly, he wondered why they had given it that name.  A concourse was a place where two courses merged.  This course led only to a car park.  The only other possible ...

  • Run In With A German "Postie" (22 July 1978)

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    Run In With A German "Postie" (22 July 1978)
    The report that the postal service had made £40 million profit reminded me of an incident that happened during my stay in Germany a couple of months ago.  German postmen don’t just push a letter through the letter box; they knock and call out while they are doing it.  At least, that is what they ...

  • Fair Shares For Us All (15 July 1978)

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    Fair Shares For Us All (15 July 1978)
    I was rummaging the other day when I came upon a ration book issued in respect of my son for the period May 17, 1953, to May 15, 1954, when he was four to five years old.  Most of the coupons for sugar, bacon, cheese, fats, eggs and meat are missing, indicating, perhaps that they ...
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