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Memories In A 1948 Notebook (15 April 1978)

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I was sorry to read recently of the death of one of my oldest Bletchley acquaintances, Mr. Bill Nash. I met him on the evening of my very first Saturday in the town. I was lodging in Newton Road at the time and, having nothing better to do, I went for a walk in search of ...
Whatever Happened To Education (8 April 1978)

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We oldies blinked in disbelief when we noted the goings-on at schools just recently. Here were teachers declining to do voluntary work. And here were children posturing and gibbering in front of cameras and generally acting like the object of going to school was not to learn, but to obtain those same dinners at which ...
Sir Lewis - Our Local Swashbuckling Hero (1 April 1978)

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I suppose one of the most popular pictures ever painted is “The Laughing Cavalier,” by Franz Hals. There he is, in all his finery, the archetype of his kind; hale and hearty, bold and brave, dashing and debonair, full of sauce and swagger, ready to die for his king, whom he equates with his country, ...
Ringing The Changes (25 March 1978)

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With two of its biggest buildings being given over to telephone services, Bletchley is becoming the most “phoney” place for miles around – in the best sense of the word, of course. I myself do not have a telephone . This might surprise you. The reason is the same as that which compels me to ...
Musical Memories (17 March 1978)

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I am very pleased that the Milton Keynes Festival of the Arts has achieved its 10th birthday and is well poised for the next decade. I admit that when the festival was projected 10 years ago I was not very sanguine about its prospects. I believed that such events, so popular at one time, had ...
RESEARCH MATERIAL

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This group of images were presented to the Living Archive with the title “Research Material” but in fact they are all about the Construction of the MK Rose in April to November 2013! Listed here is a small sample of the collection, and most of them are credited to Gustavo Costa Fernandez, while the last ...
PHOTOGRAPHY

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A small sample of the photographs taken in 2024 by Jakub Rokita, the artist appointed to deliver the Milton Keynes Rose Tenth Anniversary Commission.
COMMUNITY SUBMISSIONS

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A small sample of the photographs submitted by members of the MK community
PARKS TRUST PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE

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A small sample of the photographs submitted by members of the MK Parks Trust
Milton Keynes Rose 10th Anniversary

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Ten Years after The Milton Keynes Rose opened on 9th November 2013, The Milton Keynes Rose Trust established a Tenth Anniversary Commission. The mission was to capture the story of the Milton Keynes Rose from inception to use of today – it was time to gather the story of how MK’s central commemorative public space ...
Catherine White

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Catherine was born in 1958 in Harpenden. She lived in the leftmost three-storey house on the Green. She knew Rod Hall because she babysat for him. Her family were involved from the start: helping set up, providing toilets (with the sign ‘2p for 1 pee’) and light refreshments to organisers and performers, and taking round ...
When A Vicar Was Executed For Forgery (9 March 1978)

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Today the village of Wing seems a nice, quiet, orderly sort of place – as far as the constant passage of heavy traffic between Leighton Buzzard and Aylesbury allows. Yet it has had its moments. Going far back in time, it is averred that a secondary Roman road passed that way. Coming from the south, the ...

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