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The Days Of Those Iron Horses (3 October 1975)
TRM/137
The various TV programmes about the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway – the first public railway in the world – have been watched with peculiar interest not only by this district’s still considerable body of railwaymen and their families but by a growing number of amateur “fans” as well. Indeed, ...
Soccer Violence Is Nothing New (26 September 1975)
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Over a period of many years I reported soccer at all levels from the second division of the Football League downwards. Curiously enough, I covered the game in that order; descending in the leagues, as it were, as time went by. Actually, my earliest years of football reporting were not concerned with soccer at all. Rugby ...
In memory of Brad Bradstock: 1950 - 2023
We are sorry to announce that Brad (Graham) Bradstock died aged 72 at Westbury Care Home, Newport Pagnell on 6th ...
My Week's Holiday Under Canvas (19 September 1975)
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The week before the late-August Bank Holidays two young men whom I shall call Bash and Brut suggested I should go with them on a four-day camping holiday at Weymouth, along with Bash’s little dog. This was to be a preliminary to a more ordinary six-day visit Bash and I would be making to Yorkshire ...
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor (12 September 1975)
TRM/134
On the day Milton Keynes children went back to school after the summer holidays, a woman came on the radio (I nearly wrote “on the wireless”) and talked for a few minutes about children’s games. Not the sort of organised games they play at school, but the sort they play when they are out on ...
So Much For Hard Times Of 1975 (5 September 1975)
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In my article last week on the summer weather I mentioned that according to one source of information 1921 was the driest year this century, with a rainfall of only about half the norm. I have special cause to remember that long warm summer, for my father was a coal miner and that year saw the ...
One Of Those Good Old Summers (28 August 1975)
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One day during the recent hot spell I was in a works canteen. It was hotter there than in the works and I admit I felt suitably frizzled. Three or four lads in their late teens and early 20s came in. They were puffing and blowing. Then another chap who could not have been older ...
A Family's Brush With Industry (22 August 1975)
TRM/131
The pending closure of M A Cook and Sons’ brushworks in Victoria Road, Bletchley – a voluntary dissolution, not made for any financial reasons – will leave Beacon Brushes Ltd. the sole remaining representatives of an industry on which the town formerly relied for a good deal of its employment. Indeed, it is not too much ...
When Bletchley Had To Be B...Y (15 August 1975)
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Local relics of the Second World War keep popping up. Each one is a reminder of the conditions in Bletchley and District at that time and of its total commitment to the war effort. The latest to come to my hand is a copy of a works magazine. It is not dated, but the contents seem ...
Fishermead Festival (Collection FIF)
INT/010
A week-long festival in May 1990 involving the people of Fishermead in making costumes and banners, and then parading around the area.
Dr Fuller and Mrs Slade (Collection DFU)
INT/008
An event that included costumes, a parade and a circus performance. The Fullers Slade Childrens Centre were involved, and the performances took place in Stony Stratford in 1986.
The Egg Show (Collection EGG)
INT/009
This was a project undertaken by Carry Gorney and George King with a class at White Spires School in the late 1970s. George played the part of an explorer who had returned from his travels with a huge egg. While he is recounting his adventures to the children there is a knock from inside the ...
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