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  • Retirement Is Not Roses All The Way (10 May 1974)

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    Retirement Is Not Roses All The Way (10 May 1974)
    “You’ll be all right now you’ve retired,” they said.  “Your time will be your own.  Getting up when you like and going to bed when you like.  Doing a bit of gardening, then sitting in the sun with your feet up.  Tripping off with the wife two or three days at a time.  Roses, roses ...

  • Hawtin's Tales: To Be A Soldier - Back To The Front At Arras

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    Hawtin's Tales: To Be A Soldier - Back To The Front At Arras
    Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories of life as a solider in the First World War. Hawtin has recovered from ...

  • Letter Writers Help To Put Record Straight (10 May 1974)

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    Letter Writers Help To Put Record Straight (10 May 1974)
    If there is one sure thing about writing a column of this kind, it is that you live and learn.  And at time you live and unlearn too. Right from my first article – now nearly 70 weeks ago – I have frequently mentioned that I have no first-hand knowledge of Bletchley prior to 1946, which ...

  • Hawtin's Tales: To Be A Soldier - From Training Into Battle

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    Hawtin's Tales: To Be A Soldier - From Training Into Battle
    Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories of finishing his training as a solider in the First World War and going ...

  • It Was Game, Set & Match - To Middle Age!

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    It Was Game, Set & Match - To Middle Age!
    One of my unhappiest days in Bletchley occurred about my 58th birthday. Four of us were in the midst of a good game of tennis on the Central Gardens hard courts when quite suddenly my legs seized up in a kind of cramp I had never known before. Next morning I saw my doctor – it took ...

  • Hawtin's Tales: To Be A Soldier - Joining Up & Training

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    Hawtin's Tales: To Be A Soldier - Joining Up & Training
    Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories of enlisting as a solider in the First World War.

  • A Show Goes On And It's Another Milestone (26 April 1974)

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    A Show Goes On And It's Another Milestone (26 April 1974)
    The Milton Keynes Amateur Operatic society – formerly the Bletchley Amateur Operatic Society – reach a notable milestone this year.  For Viva Mexico which they are beginning at Wilton Hall, Bletchley, on Saturday, May 4, will be their 21st annual production. Over the years the members have given many fine shows and I have reported them ...

  • Well House Tenants and Ownership

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    Well House Tenants and Ownership
    The history of the tenants and ownership of Well House during the period 1865 to 1981 are recorded by a document written by David Lacey. Well House is a 17th Century thatched cottage in Church Green Road, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. It is now Grade II Listed. The 21 pages of the document are stored as individual Items in ...

  • Grim Deaths And Treasure Are All His Concern (19 April 1974)

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    Grim Deaths And Treasure Are All His Concern (19 April 1974)
    With the retirement of Mr. John Smithie, Bletchley’s town manager, I can think of only one man prominent in local affairs who still holds the position he held when I came to this district in 1946. He is Mr. Edward T. Ray, who for the whole of that time, has occupied the ancient and honourable office ...

  • Hawtin's Tales 8 - Ginger Parsons

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    Hawtin's Tales 8 - Ginger Parsons
    Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories of a remarkable schoolmate – Ginger Parsons.

  • Poised For A Leap Into A Tremendous Future (11 April 1974)

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    Poised For A Leap Into A Tremendous Future (11 April 1974)
    When all the natural excitement anent the take-over of Bletchley Urban Council by Milton Keynes Borough Council has subsided, it may well be that the most interesting thing to come out of it will be seen to be just 22 pages of the souvenir brochure produced for the Bletchley Pageant. In those pages the history of ...

  • Hawtin's Tales 7 - Toilets and Backways

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    Hawtin's Tales 7 - Toilets and Backways
    Hawtin Mundy was a remarkable storyteller. Born in 1896, his memories inspired two books and a documentary play. Brad Bradstock devised a one-man show using Hawtin’s words that got a rave review at the Edinburgh Festival. Here he tells Hawtin’s memories of outside toilets and the pranks he and other children played on unsuspecting occupants.
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