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Kate Devanney and Carol Marley's Interview Summary
WHC/003
Kate was born in 1976 and came to Willen Hospice as a qualified nurse in 2001, left to have her first child and came back again in 2017 and works with the Willen at Home Team and so is community based. She feels she needed to adapt her skills whilst working at the Hospice and ...
Kate Beamish's Interview Summary
WHC/002
Kathleen was born in 1937 and first became involved with the Hospice when she saw an advert for a cleaner. She applied and got the job and started work two weeks after it opened. She remembers the Sister, Jean Moore and Lady Rachel Duncan scrubbing floors and remembers there being lots of volunteers doing various ...
Brian Stuart's Interview Summary
WHC/001
Brian was born in 1935 and first became involved with Willen Hospice when his wife was ill and was first admitted to the Hospice. She spent a total of 6 weeks at Willen. She had a beautiful room overlooking the lake and her family visited every day including her son coming over from Singapore with ...
Willen Hospice
WHC
In 2021 Willen Hospice celebrated its 40th anniversary. The following interviews were part of a Living Archive oral history project to capture the stories and memories of the people involved with the Hospice over the last 40 years. Thanks to a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, we were able to present a film ...
In The Wake Of Post And Times (18 July 1975)
TRM/126
Fenny Stratford has been the birthplace of three newspapers, only one of which – your Gazette – survives. The histories of the first and third are fairly well known. The first to appear was the Fenny Stratford Weekly Times. Its No 1 issue is dated August 21, 1879. Its title was changed to the North Bucks ...
The End Of A Postal Era (4 July 1975)
TRM/125
No development is more significant of the rapid growth of the new city than the recent opening of the big new postal sorting office – the “Mount Pleasant” of Milton Keynes. It may be said to mark the end of one epoch and the beginning of another in the postal service. The appointment of Bletchley as ...
The Milton Keynes Book Of Days Of The Great War
This is a substantial account of the conflict from a local perspective. A large format book featuring 200 illustrated pages ...
It's Been All Change For Drapers (27 June 1975)
TRM/124
One of the oldest firms in Bletchley who are still operating from their original site are the well-known drapers, A G Cowlishaw and Son, whose business in Aylesbury Street, Fenny Stratford, was founded in 1912 or 1913. But the Cowlishaw connection with Fenny goes back further – to the time last century when Mr John Cowlishaw, ...
Why Smoking Helps Make News (20 June 1975)
TRM/123
You may have been astonished by the recent cigarette-smoking confessions of five of the youngest members of the Gazette’s reporting staff. Frankly, I was not. I was astonished only at the fact that at times their consumption rose to as many as 30 cigarettes a day. I also felt a little envious that they could ...
Those Meals That Turn Me Sour (13 June 1975)
TRM/122
I note with a certain amount of interest that the Eight Bells Field at Bletchley is in the news again, thanks to a fair that pitched there recently. Incidentally, I insist on spelling it “Bells,” not “Belles,” for reasons I hope to explain at some other time. The authorities have been talking about what to do ...
A Publican Who Sold Home Brew (6 June 1975)
TRM/121
Occasionally there comes into the hands of local newspapers material which is of historical interest. This happened to the Gazette in 1949 through a letter from Mr E. Troughton, who lived at Weymouth, but who spent the first 19 years of his long life at Water Eaton in the 1870s and 1880s and who often ...
The Working Wife Is Nothing New (30 May 1975)
TRM/120
For a few years after the second world war there were periodical auction sales of old furniture and other household articles at the Bletchley market place. One day I was nosing around there when I came upon a lace-making pillow. It was complete with pretty little bone bobbins inscribed with mottoes and messages of a ...
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