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About
100 years ago Wolverton was a new town in the middle of rural
Buckinghamshire, with all the townspeople employed by the railway
or McCorquadales, the railway printers.
But
in recent years the town has become part of the new city of Milton
Keynes.
It
could so easily have simply been absorbed into the new city, but
local people have worked long and hard to keep the town alive
and to gain heritage status.
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Aquaduct
at Wolverton
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Clarence
Gill believes that Milton Keynes "filched" most of Wolvertons
social activities and organisations, such as the Milton Keynes
brass band, which was the Wolverton Band, grown from the railways
encouragement of musical activities.
Milton
Keynes Coroner Rodney Corner explains how years of exposure to
asbestos in the works has led to a higher than average incidence
of the industrial disease mesothaelioma. Former works convenor
Yvonne Richardson says the men just did not know what they were
handling and even rolled up asbestos insulation to use as footballs
and cricket balls.
The
present day works may be a shadow of its former self, but it has
an assured future in the hands of Alstom Railcare.
Edward
Wolverton
San Jose ,California,USA |
Thursday,
26-Aug-2004 23:02:55 BST |
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| I
truely loved the articles on Wolverton,[ old-and new] I am
reaching out on the net to find my roots- sort of to speak.
I am a Direct decendant of Charles Woolverton, who sailed
to America with his two brothers, Gabriel, and John,from Dorsetshire,
England in 1682. A good friend of George Fox, and William
Penn, and to have first settled on Long Island, from which
he was removed in 1689 to Burlinton County, West Jersey. The
Wolvertons owned the land at one time of Ft. Dix, New Jersey,
a now very long history in parts of the United States. I have
records reaching back to this era, but nothing much pertaining
to the town of wolverton in the UK, except for what I am picking
up on the internet. A very well splended job, Thank You. I
found a site just last night about Buckinghamshire- and the
Wolverton township with a 190 photo's, just flabbergasted
me...I never sought to look o! n the internet.[ and I do so
much work on here].Thank you again. Edward Wolverton |
