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The Zerena Project 1988 Photography by David Runnacles

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Subjects include children, aliens and Newlyn Place School and Fishermead. A selection of 39 photographs from a total of 200. David Runnacles, a Cambridge street photographer, was employed by Inter-Action MK to record The Zerena Project as it unravelled over 6 weeks in the spring and summer of 1988.
The Zerena Files*

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De-classified after 35 years, TOP SECRET files now available and unredacted. *Beware this file will completely rewrite Milton Keynes’ history as you know it. Imagine you are a child at your First School and come in one day to find a spaceship has landed in your school playground. Inside the spaceship is an alien named Zerena. She ...
The Bucks That Is Now A Memory (12 December 1975)

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A book to be treasured has been compiled by members of the Bucks Federation of Women’s Institutes. It is entitled ‘’A Pattern of Hundreds’’ and is published by Richard Salder Ltd, of Chalfont St Giles. In it, people like 97-year-old Mrs Eliza Gladwin, of Old Bletchley, recall the days of their childhood and youth, and in ...
155 Years Of Hanslope Weddings Exhibition coming soon

See the attached PDF for details.
Bletchley - It Just Kept Growing (5 December 1975)

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As becomes a former regular Yeoman of Signals in the Royal Navy, my long-time acquaintance, Ken Fuller, is a forthright sort of chap. So it is not surprising when he bluntly declares in an interview with the Gazette: “I was with the old Bletchley UDC for six years (1953 to 1959) and Bucks County Council for ...
Inter Trash (Collection ITR)

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The idea of this 2008 project was to create numerous artworks in various forms using only Trash as raw material. The forms included a wall of glass bottles, items made of denim from old jeans, a rave marquee, a full-size car sculpture, and sculptures of trash people. There are a further 493 pictures in the main ...
Garden Of Light (Collection GOL)

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This project took place in February and March of 2010 and involved young volunteers working with the artist Nathan Hughes to create a series of installations using light at the Old Rectory. Workshops were run from mid February and the installations were shown to the public on 23rd, 24th and 27th March. There are a ...
Images Of Disability (Collection IOD)

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The main objectives of this project were to produce a photographic exhibition titled ‘Images of Disability’ by July 1996, to launch this exhibition at MK Disability Arts Festival in July 1996, and to tour the exhibition to 6 venues nationally by December 1998. Artist and photographer Ross Boyd worked with a group of 14 disabled people ...
Gigante (Collection GIG)

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The Gigante project was initiated by Inter-Action MK in March 1995. Gigantes are traditional Catalonian processional figures – usually 12 feet high, and used for a wide variety of community festivals and fiestas. The project took place on 6 estates local to Inter-Action. Schools and community groups took part in the building of 7 Gigante. ...
Groovy Gecko (Collection GGO)

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The Groovy Gecko was a nightclub for (and run by) disabled people. It was set up in 2006 after much research on other similar clubs in the UK, and with a lot of training for the crew members. There are a further 2300 pictures in the main Living Archive – these 30 photographs are just ...
New LAMK Board members wanted - details here:

LAMK is recruiting for new Board members! Yes, we’re on the lookout, so if you’d like to join our Board ...
Demolition A Twinge Of Regret (28 November 1975)

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The demolition of the Spurgeon Memorial Baptist Church in Aylesbury Street, Fenny Stratford, must have saddened some local people, especially the elderly. From the day it was opened in 1892 up to its closure it was the most commodious place of worship in the district. True, the Baptist community are now carrying on the good ...