Postcards featuring images of locations in and around Milton Keynes. Also includes a a small amount from Letchworth. Most were published by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation to advertise the town in the 1980s.
Extent 1 folder
Reference number POS
Storage location CDC 7/3/2
Format 1 folder Records in this Collection
Ref: POS/075
Ref: POS/075
Postcard showing a medieval bronze strap end with decoration depicting a dragon, from the Woughton medieval village excavation, next to a new halfpenny coin for scale.
Ref: POS/076
Ref: POS/076
Postcard of an external view of Bradwell Abbey Field Centre (the farmhouse), Bradwell Abbey.
Ref: POS/077
Ref: POS/077
Postcard showing thirteenth century pewter chalice and paten from priest's burial excavated in Great Linford Churchyard.
Ref: POS/078
Ref: POS/078
Postcard showing model of how Bancroft Roman Villa would have looked.
Ref: POS/079
Ref: POS/079
Print of drawing of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Willen, Buckinghamshire. Illustration features vicar stood in doorway and attendees making their way to the church. It appears to be set in the Victorian era. The postcard is undated and has no indicators of date except being post-restoration of the church, which ended in 1970.
Ref: POS/080
Ref: POS/080
Postcard with black and white images showing a train on the platform at Milton Keynes Central railway station with a man and bike about to board and an external view of the station building. Bottom left features the sentence "Station opened 14th May 1982".
Ref: POS/081
Ref: POS/081
Postcard showing a steam tram awaiting departure on Wolverton Road, Stony Stratford. A man is stood beside the engine and people are looking out of the top deck windows. The tram stands in front of North Bucks Trading Company building.
Ref: POS/082
Ref: POS/082
Print of photograph entitled "The First Steam Tram to Deanshanger, 1890". Shows the tram on Stratford Road, two men inside the driver's carriage with one man stood on the ground beside them, another man looking out of the top deck window, another on the ground below him, one more off to the side and some ...
Ref: POS/083
Ref: POS/083
Postcard entitled "Wolverton - Steam Trams in Stratford Road". Shows a steam tram on the road outside buildings, with a large group of people on the path in between.
Ref: POS/084
Ref: POS/084
Postcard of Kitchener image KIT/27/114
Ref: POS/085
Ref: POS/085
Postcard of Kitchener image KIT/4/134
Ref: POS/086
Ref: POS/086
Postcard of cropped and zoomed in Kitchener image KIT/32/118
Ref: POS/087
Ref: POS/087
Postcard of Kitchener image KIT/10/108
Ref: POS/088
Ref: POS/088
Postcard showing a view of Nevells Road, Letchworth, c1905. Three men are working a field in the foreground and there are houses in the background.
Ref: POS/089
Ref: POS/089
Postcard showing a steam train on the platform at Letchworth Railway Station. Passengers are crowded on the platform.
Ref: POS/090
Ref: POS/090
Postcard showing a group of children and horse and carriage on Station Road, [Letchworth]. The Garden City Hotel is on the left of the image.
Ref: POS/091
Ref: POS/091
Postcard showing people queuing to board a bus outside the Midland Bank, Station Place, Letchworth. Photograph is from 1925, the date of the postcard is unknown.
Ref: POS/092
Ref: POS/092
Postcard showing the view towards Old Stratford from Stony Stratford. Features a carriage being driven down the road and a motor car coming up the road.
Ref: POS/093
Ref: POS/093
Postcard of Market Square, Stony Stratford, facing the church.
Ref: POS/094
Ref: POS/094
Postcard of The Mill, Stony Stratford.
Ref: POS/095
Ref: POS/095
Colour effect postcard showing two children in hats and dresses walking down Green Drive in Brickhill Woods.
Ref: POS/096
Ref: POS/096
Postcard of a photograph showing the schools on Queensway, Bletchley / Fenny Stratford in 1906.
Ref: POS/097
Ref: POS/097
Postcard of a photograph showing Bletchley Road (now Queensway), Bletchley, c1918.
Ref: POS/098
Ref: POS/098
Postcard of a photograph showing houses and buildings along Aylesbury Street, Fenny Stratford in the 1920s.
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