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Lovely 🧡

Are you sure the works built French Chapelon engines at Wolverton?

Thanks for making this film. I used to explore around there as an early 1980s kid. Obsessed with trains and then car ferries. I could see the works and the railway viaduct from my bedroom window. A cardboard council house on Bradville Estate that was really cold during winter (we had to put 50p in the gas meter to get hot water). I could also see a spot with dozens of tall radio masts just to the north east of Wolverton. Some kind of military installation. I have been in NZ for yonks now and still wonder what that place was. The masts seem to be gone. Hanslope Park might be what it was. That's still a secret government location and is blurred out on Google street view. We thought it would get nuked if the big war kicked off, so did not fancy our chances (it's all we talked about for a few days after The Day After was on TV). P.S. I see my old school Stantonbury Campus is now on the problem schools list and has been privatized. That's sad. It was such a great school back in the early days. With MK being the government's pet project, they spared no expense on the school. It had everything a school could possibly need and then some. I guess they were trying to teach the London Overflow kids how to be all proper and all that. They must have given up.

Nice! I'm from Deanshanger (mentioned at the end), my uncles worked at Wolverton Works, not sure if they went by tram though! Lovely to see views of Stony (memories of walking across the fields of Passenham to get there) together with some history.

Agree with the comment the railway houses were opposite side of the works wall , purposely built for the employee, I also believe some of the house can be attributed to the printing company ( Mccorkindales? ) that was on the oppersite side of the works for many years. Moved there to Wolverton to live in a previous railway housewith my parents back in 1965, council house by then . Tesco is actually built on the workshop where I did some of my apprenticeship, and worked in when qualified. TBH I believe a lot more effort could of/ should of been made in some sort of preservation and sympathetic respect to the Wolverton workers, and town occupier’s.

great video thanks for making it

Very interesting. I was part of a show playing one of the Every brothers who fought in the war and all died after sending letters out back home.

One inaccuracy here. The railway houses were not on the ground where Tesco’s now stands. They were the opposite side of theStratford road covering the area stretching from Aldi to the Gables tower block.

This is a fascinating film. I lived in the town between 1955 and 1962, my dad owned the hardware shop on The Square, Radcliffe street. Watching the section about the Secret Garden I now realise (I've looked on a map exactly where it is) I visited one of the Victorian houses there as my mum was friendly with a couple who lived in one of them. Their name was Waldren and the husband was a keen photographer. Does anyone remember this couple?

I found your videos about a year ago and subscribed to look at them many years into the future, and now you're uploading again. Hope they stay here 👍

where did all that lot come from in the name of progress, doesnt look like the same place from 1980.

a great film! I lived in Stony Stratford for 38 years taught at Russel First and St Mary and St Giles. (Sandra Norgate)then. My late husband Chris painted many of the outsides of the buildings over the years. Our 2 children grew up there and we lived in Clarence Road. Our daughter Rachel trained as a nurse in Reading and Jonathan went on to Cambridge University. I moved from Stony in October 2006 following Chris s. death in 2005. I think still some of my heart is there although I now live in Horsham West Sussex. It's a great town and it was a privilege to have spent some of the happiest years of my life there.

Hello, i am from Argentina, Entre Rios. What a beautiful place!. Good night

Lovely video, great blending techniques (old to new). Just one thought: it is a bit slow in places - for example portrait of Richard Duke of York (who murdered the boy princes) was rather lingered over with dramatic music a bit too long for my liking. People don't have a lot of time nowadays so that would be a way of shortening the length of the video without losing content? Just a thought. Otherwise I loved it!