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  • Lesley Wilson

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    Lesley Wilson
    Lesley came to live in Milton Keynes in 1984 to take up the role of director of swimming coaching for Milton Keynes Swimming Club. In 1991 she took a job at Milton Keynes Council and became part of a team called Action Sport.   The programme looked at ways to increase people’s participation in sport.  As ...

  • Bianca Luttman

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    Bianca Luttman
    Bianca started playing football at the age of 4 and joined the Water Eaton FC team at the age of 5 and stayed there until she was 12.  She was the only girl in the team but was accepted by the boys as she was a good player. She went on to play for Rushden ...

  • Kate Davidson

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    Kate Davidson
    Kate started playing football at the age of 5 with local boys using jumpers for goalposts! Kate has memories of watching football on TV and watching Grandstand on a Saturday afternoon. She was known as the girl running around in an Arsenal kit. Kate started playing football for Milton Keynes Ladies in 1991 and played ...

  • Jan Emms

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    Jan Emms
    Jan got interested in football whilst playing with her two older brothers.  Despite living near Arsenal football ground, Jan was a Spurs supporter.  She was living in Biggleswade and joined Harry Batt’s team, Chiltern Valley, where she was centre forward in the team which won most of their matches.  Jan has a lot of respect ...

  • Gill Sayell

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    Gill Sayell
    Gill enjoyed playing football with her four brothers and played in a boys’ team when she was 8.  She was known as Billy.  Other teams didn’t like her playing so Gill managed to get into a girls team when she was 12 at Thame.  Football became a major part of her parents life as well ...

  • Christine Lockwood

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    Christine Lockwood
    Christine first found her love for football playing with her boy cousins as a young child. She used to go and watch Luton Town with her father but is now a Spurs supporter. Harry Batt asked Christine to join his Chiltern Valley Ladies’ team, and she went to play in the World Cup in Mexico ...

  • Leah Caleb

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    Leah Caleb
    Leah became interested in football at infants school where she joined in games with the boys before joining a girls team when she was 11 years old.  The ladies team won the league in 1970/71.  The team was run by Harry Batt who was also involved in national football and at 13 Leah played in ...

  • UEFA WEURO 2022 Heritage Project

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    UEFA WEURO 2022 Heritage Project
    As part of an arts and heritage programme for Milton Keynes as a host city for the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022, Living Archive MK interviewed women to capture their stories and memories of playing football. This collection consists of nine interviews with women in Milton Keynes who have a connection to football. It’s an important year ...

  • Settling Into A Village Routine (21 March 1975)

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    Settling Into A Village Routine (21 March 1975)
    Galley Hill Women’s Institute have celebrated their first anniversary.  Nothing much in that, some might say.  But wait a minute. Commonly a WI is a village institution, but Galley Hill is a new city housing estate.  And commonly a village is a place where most people have known most other people all their lives, but a ...

  • We Should Build For Brightness (14 March 1975)

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    We Should Build For Brightness (14 March 1975)
    The other afternoon I had a run through the new part of the new city of Milton Keynes.  I wanted to find the whereabouts of the Stantonbury Campus in daylight in case I wished to go there in darkness some time.  I had heard that the road which begins in Bletchley as Bond Avenue led ...

  • The Tale Of Coddy Foster's Engine (7 March 1975)

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    The Tale Of Coddy Foster's Engine (7 March 1975)
    Of all the many local railway anecdotes the one I find most intriguing is that about how driver “Coddy” Foster’s engine came to be in the Newfoundout and the consequences for the said Coddy. The Newfoundout, I must explain to newcomers to Bletchley, is the triangular stretch of water off Water Eaton Road bounded by the ...

  • The Day They Brought The Pub Down (28 February 1975)

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    The Day They Brought The Pub Down (28 February 1975)
    Mr Frank Howard’s recollections of the old Fenny Fire Brigade recently published in these jottings call to mind another story of derring-do on the part of that doughty band.  It was told in 1946 by Mr George Bates, of Water Eaton, who was then aged 82 and had been a member of the brigade 50 ...
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