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© JOHN TAYLOR

As an ongoing series, these articles are written for The Way We Were column of the Milton Keynes Citizen. They chronicle various aspects of the local heritage, and encompass an area extending to a radius of some 15 miles from the centre of the new 'City' of Milton Keynes.

Aspley Guise Bow Brickhill Newport Pagnell
AERONAUTICS ALL SAINT'S CHURCH A RED CROSS SALE, WW1
ASPLEY SCHOOL CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, WWI CIVIL WAR
FOOLING HESS Broughton FLU PANDEMIC
OTTO JOHN ST. LAWRENCE CHURCH WALL PAINTINGS ORSON BULL
Astwood Calverton RAFFAELE MAZZONE
HISTORY OF DOVECOTES LADY GRACE BENNET 'S MURDER ROYAL ENGINEERS HOSPITAL
Battlesden LADY GRACE BENNETT SALMONS MOTOR CARRIAGE WORKS, WWI
A BRIEF HISTORY Chicheley THE ODELLS, IN WAR & PEACE
ST. PETER & ALL SAINTS CHURCH GWEN FARRAR WORKHOUSE CONDITIONS
Beachampton Cranfield 300 YEAR OLD PROPHECY
CHURCH SPIRE GUY GIBSON Newton Longville
ELMERS Cublington BRICK MAKING
Bletchley AIRPORT RESISTANCE CAMPAIGN THE PRIORY & MANOR HOUSE
BANKING Drayton Parslow North Marston
BATHING PLACE BELL FOUNDRY JOHN SCHORNE
BLETCHLEY GAZETTE Emberton SCHORNE WELL
BLETCHLEY IN 1926 ANGEL MEMORIAL, WWI Olney
BLETCHLEY PAGEANT FRED STANTON, WWI HERO A CIVIL WAR SKIRMISH
BLETCHLEY PARK PAVILION SIR VERNON KELL 'BROTHER WILLIAM' – THE POET COWPER
BLETCHLEY PARK SPIES Gayhurst COWPER'S HARES
BLETCHLEY ROAD, THEN & NOW SIR EVERARD DIGBY COWPER'S SUMMERHOUSE RETREATS
BROWNE WILLIS & EDWARD WELLS Great Horwood LACE INDUSTRY
BURYING HIMMLER FIRE, PESTS & PESTILENCE MALICIOUS FIRES
COMMERCIAL LIFE 1886 GHOST HUNT, SWAN INN ORCHARD SIDE
COMMERCIAL LIFE 1891 Great Linford PANCAKE RACE
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS BRANCH CANAL Passenham
COUNCIL  OFFICES DR. RICHARD SANDY GHOST STORY
COWLISHAW FAMILY Hanslope Ravenstone
DENBIGH HALL INN CHURCH SPIRE POETICAL PAST
DENTISTS OF YESTERDAY HANSLOPE PARK WW2 Ridgmont
DOCTORS OF THE PAST THE MURDERED SQUIRE NINA CECILIA BENTINCK
DR. ERNST BLUMENAU Haversham Shenley (Brook End & Church End)
DR. GURNEY WHITE BUXTON MRS. TYSOE'S EVICTION ALAN TURING
EDUCATION 1891 Hockliffe ALAN TURING AND WARTIME BOMBS
ENTERTAINMENTS IN 1887 COLLEGE FARM ALAN TURING'S TREASURE
ERNEST COOK Lathbury VILLAGE CURIOS
EVACUEES ARRIVE DAPHNE TREVOR Simpson
EVACUEES WW2 Little Brickhill REVEREND WILLIAM RICE
FENNY STRATFORD BOARD SCHOOL SIR PEXALL BROCAS Soulbury
FENNY POPPERS Little Linford LOVETT FAMILY
FENNY STRATFORD’S FiGHTER PILOTS WWI REVEREND ERNEST SILL Stewkley
FENNY STRATFORD GASWORKS Little Woolstone HISTORY OF DOVECOTES
FENNY STRATFORD TELEPHONE EXCHANGE HISTORY OF DOVECOTES ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH
FENNY STRATFORD TOWN HALL SISTER DORA IVY LANE
FIRST WORLD WAR LETTERS Loughton Stoke Bruerne
GORDON DOWNS BUSHELL, - Battle of Britain pilot NATIONAL SCHOOL DIGGING BLISWORTH TUNNEL
GUIDE TO TOWN'S PAST Milton Bryan Stony Stratford
HEADMASTERS CHAPEL OVER THE POND DANCING WITH WORDS
HEALTH HAZARDS 1886 COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUES WESLEY'S ELM AND RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE
H.M.S. MEON Milton Keynes City Swanbourne
HOME GUARD BUILDING SITES DEBORAH KERR & ANTHONY BARTLEY
HOUSING & HIGHWAYS 1926 Milton Keynes Village ST. SWITHUN'S CHURCH, A REMINISCENCE
LOCAL  WRITERS A TROUBLESOME MAID Tattenhoe
LOOKING BACK - QUEENSWAY BELGIAN REFUGEES, WWI ST. GILES CHURCH
LORD & LADY DALMENY ELM TREE LEGEND Thornborough
MAISON BELGE THE OLD SWAN BURIAL BARROWS
MEDIA STARS Miscellany Tyringham
MELLISH COURT AIR & TRAIN TRAGEDIES EAST LONDON MATERNITY HOSPITAL
MRS. MOSER & THE REPORT CENTRE A.R.P. & AIR RAIDS BELGIAN REFUGEES AT THE LODGES
OLD BLETCHLEY WAR MEMORIAL CALLING THE SHOTS TYRINGHAM HOUSE IN WWI
OPENING THE TEMPERANCE HALL CHIEF OF POLICE Walton
ORIGIN OF ROAD NAMES CHRISTMAS TRUCE 1914 - Letters from the Front BRIGADIER ERIC EARLE
PAINTING BLETCHLEY PARK FAMOUS WRITERS Dr. EDWARD VAUGHAN HARLEY
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR FIREBALLS Weston Underwood
PRISONERS OF THE JAPANESE FOUNTAIN PENS & LETTERS GEORGE BOWYER
QUEENSWAY METHODIST CHURCH FROM RUSSIA, WITH ANYTHING BUT LOVE WILLIAM COWPER AND THE ALCOVE
RED HOUSE HERBIE RIDES AGAIN GEORGE EDWARD WENTWORTH BOWYER
RELIGION IN 1887 LADY DALMENY & THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY Whaddon
ROBERT MAXWELL LOCAL INVENTORS SECRETS OF WINDY RIDGE
ROMANTIC ENCOUNTERS MISTRESSES Wicken
SCHOOL EVACUEES POSTAL PAST REVEREND HUGH NELSON-WARD
SCOUTING IN WARTIME RAMBLING REMINISCENCE Winslow
SHOULDER OF MUTTON & RECTORY COTTAGES ROYAL BUCKS YEOMANRY & THE BURMA CAMPAIGN BENJAMIN KEACH
SPREADING THE NEWS ROYALTY IN THE REGION WINSLOW HALL
SPURGEON MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH SIR FRANK MARKHAM WORKHOUSE
STARS IN OUR EYES SPIRITUAL AWARENESS Woburn
ST. MARTIN'S HALL THE GOAT WHO STARED AT MEN MODEL HOSPITAL
SUICIDE AT STAPLE HALL DEPOT THE NOT FORGOTTEN HEROES OF FROMELLES WWI P.O.W CAMP
SUPERINTENDENT ERNEST CALLAWAY TIMELY MEMORIALS Woburn Sands
SYCAMORE FARM WAR HORSE WILLIAM SWAIN
TALE OF THREE CHURCHES WARTIME INTELLIGENCE. PROMINENT PERSONNEL Wolverton
TELEPHONE EXCHANGES WOMEN'S LAND ARMY BOUVERIE WALTER ST. JOHN MILDMAY - a daring WWI pilot
TEMPERANCE HALL IN WWII WW1 SPY FEVER IRON TRUNK
THE AMERICAN DREAM YESTERDAY'S WISDOM RECOLLECTIONS OF WOLVERTON WORKS
THE BAPTIST CHAPEL Mursley UNCOVERING A WWI SPYRING
THOMAS LAKE HARRIS SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Woughton
THE GIGGLES, A WWI CONCERT PARTY Mursley GUNFIGHT AT WOUGHTON
THE TETLEY TEA STORY SIR JOHN FORTESCUE
WARTIME AT THE BARN SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
WARTIME ATTRACTIONS THOMAS BEECHAM
WARTIME BOMBS WATER TOWER
WARTIME ENTERTAINMENT New Bradwell
WARTIME ESCAPEES BRANCH RAILWAY
WARTIME LIFE CHURCHES AND A TURBULENT PRIEST
WARTIME MISDEMEANOURS SCRAP YARDS
WARTIME SCOUTING
WAYWARD SERVANT GIRL
WEATHERHEADS, A FAMILY FIRM
WINTERS OF YESTERYEAR
WW2 CASUALTIES
XMAS TRUCE WW1