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hello and welcome to the July edition of the mK Flyers.Last July we ran our Sponsor a Flip Flop with all proceeds going to Willen Hospice.

This year we have brought the summer to the flyers with our Sponsor an Ice Lolly.

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With the sun trying its best to make an appearance in Milton Keynes, we are itching to get into our gardens to start to enjoy them again. This month’s edition has yet more great tips on your garden from Frost Garden Centre’s resident expert, Maurice Rust. See what Maurice has to say on page 28.

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The festival has been listed as one of the top 100 festivals in the Sunday Times Festival guide. Events range from bouncing on the inflatable Stonehenge which will be situated outside the train station for a couple of days, to a light festival in Campbell Park and even a performance of a play from Cambodia. I am incredibly excited as it gives MK yet another opportunity to get on the map and I would urge you all to look into what is going on, on your own doorstep.

With the Olympics this month and the Jubilee last month there has certainly been a feel good factor spread across the country. It has made visits around Milton Keynes particularly special for me with plenty of celebrations but there have also been some really interesting events independent of this time of national celebration. Young Enterprise is a charity which encourages business, education and learning. Each year they run a business competition where school pupils come up with an idea for a product or service, produce it and sell it.

In the hope to meet Milton Keynes’s own version of Alan Sugar, I went to the final of the County Final for the competition where both Stantonbury and Ousedale schools were competing. . Both schools seemed to have themed their projects on “up-cycling”, making your once loved items into something useful again. Oused Again! The entry from Ousedale created their business creating cake stands and clocks from old records and rings from the keys of old keyboards. The business from Stantonbury , Scrap That, made notebooks from old newspapers and magazines. I was really impressed with the business plans

that each school had come up with and their recognition of what had worked and what had gone wrong. With the the future of business in their hands, it has hope to be a bright future.

As a former boy Scout I took great delight in visiting the Girlguides

in Heron’s Lodge. I have fantastic memories of when I was younger singing songs around a campfire, learning to make fire and weekends away sleeping in tents, so this was a visit full of nostalgia for me. The Rainbows and Brownies were in full swing when I arrived, the Rainbows learning about the Queen, having made crowns which they were wearing, while the Brownies were having a competition as part of a teddy bear’s picnic. It was a pleasure to see so many young girls enjoying spending time outside school doing useful activities, I know that the skills I learnt as a Boy Scout have stuck for life.

Finally in amongst the jubilee celebrations, I visited community based projects which are working incredibly hard. Open Door provides a drop-in centre service for the homeless community within Milton Keynes. Always happy to roll up my sleeves I helped the volunteers make cups of tea and coffee for the homeless people that dropped in. The service provides excellent support to all of its users and goes much further than just providing a hot meal, hot shower and clothes; they also provide mental health support, English teachers and tenancy support for those looking for accommodation.

Following on from this, I paid a surprise visit to the Wylie Centre in Bradville to see their new job club. I was delighted to see how the job club is helping give people the confidence, assurance and skills they require to get back into work. I met with a young man, who had been out of work for a year, his self-esteem was visibly affected by this and all he wanted to do was to get a job. I know that the job club really will make a difference, so if you need help with your CV and are struggling to get back into work, why not pop along and see how they can help you.

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This beautiful photo of Chicheley Street taken by Michael’s sister Catherine Pratt in 1959 showing the old Clay Lane as it once was called, referring to the clay-made bricks dug from this area in the ‘Clay Lane Closes & the Old Enclosure’ seen on my photo.

This is an extremely large area seen in the second field from the lane, where tons of clay were manually dug to make the bricks to build some of the old town. It is not clear exactly when this was, but possibly dating to the 1600 to early 1800s.

Some of the houses in the ‘Old Saint John Street’ were possibly built with these bricks. There were many clay pits in this area around Clay Lane up until these lands were developed and urbanised.

This started in Chicheley Street from 1929, when the modern bottom end odd numbered houses were first built.

Hawthorn Cottage is on the left which is believed to be an old Shepherd’s Cottage, probably built by William Powell when he owned the Tickford Abbey site and lands, in the 1840s.

Hawthorn Cottage was demolished in March 1965 to make way for the present houses and the widening of the lane.

Catherine’s photo shows an old Oak Tree in the distance which was near the home of Mr Tommy Dalby-Balls who lived at number 29 with wife Annie. Mr Balls was famous for designing the ‘Tickford Hood’ which was used on many of the Salmon’s Car’s. This was shown at the 1925 Motor Show. Tommy was rewarded with a percentage of every one sold, allowing him to buy his home,which was only done by the more affluent members of society at that time.

Some of the Lane’s early residents : -29 Chicheley Street 1949 - Arthur. H. (Tommy) &. Annie. Dalby-Balls. Mr Dalby-Balls 31 Chicheley Street 1949 – James. W. Theresa. &. Lily Richardson. Lily ‘known as Polly’ was a teacher at Bury St School during the 1940s/50s. A very strict no nonsense lady, feared by most pupils. 29 Chicheley Street. 1949 - Doris. A. C. Cooling. 33 Chicheley Street. 1949 - Bertram. M &. Violet. G. Stanton.35 Chicheley Street. 1949 - William. John. &. Jessie. G. Sampson.37 Chicheley Street. 1949 - Christopher. Annie. E. &. Violet. M. Wagstaff.39 Chicheley Street. 1949 - Joseph. &. Phyllis. V. Dewey. &. Rose. E. Walden 41 Chicheley Street. 1949 - James. W. &. Florence. K. Davey.43 Chicheley Street. 1949 - Harry. &. Alice. M. A. Sanders.45 Chicheley Street. 1949 - William. J. &. Doris. E. Jones.47 Chicheley Street. 1949 - Harry. E. &. Ann. F. Green.49 Chicheley Street. 1949 - Harry. &. Kate. Cropp.51 Chicheley Street. 1949 - Christopher. W. &. Dorothy. E. Wagstaff.53 Chicheley Street. 1949 - Ronald. William. &. Alice. Emily. Prickett.55 Chicheley Street. 1949 - William. G. Pratt. Michael and Catherine. Eva. May. Rose.Hawthorn Cottage 1949 - Albert C. & Annie. PageIn my last examination into this ancient thoroughfare, I will be looking into this old lane’s history throughout the past 400 years, certainly taking us back to the 1600s of which there are records enlightening us of its past.Gentleman Mr Mark Slingsbie, who was probably a Church Warden and Governor of Queen Ann’s Hospital, it is said he was buried 16th July 1677 in one of the close’s off Chicheley Street.



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It is very simple when planting a new wisteria plant it a warm wall facing on the south or west, for the first two or three years of growth you need to build up a frame work of trained stems evenly spaced supported on wires over the wall where you are growing it.

To achieve a stunning display it will require some work and attention, wisteria are best pruned hard twice a year to make sure of the best show of flowers. Its sheer vigour – new shoots can easily grow 4 metres (12feet) in a season – makes it difficult to keep under control, this is partly to blame for the wariness with which inexperienced gardeners approach the task of pruning wisteria. Wisteria do not deserve the reputation of being a difficult plant to prune, the job is quite straightforward once you grasp a few basic principles.

Wisteria flowers on shoots known as lateral spurs that have developed off main stems of the previous year. This is referred to as ‘flowering on old wood’. The aim of pruning is to create the maximum number of well-spaced spurs on strong and regular framework of branches that will allow pendulous blooms to hang gracefully without crowding those on the branches below.

All varieties flowers most profusely growing in a warm sunny situation. It is bests grown against the sunny wall, where new shoots are helped to ripen early in the reflected warmth. In this location, espalier training makes the most of the flowers trailing habit. Fix strong horizontal support wires to the wall at 38 to 45 cm (15 to 18 inches)_ apart and at least 5 cm (2inches) away from the wall for the best effect. Plant the wisteria at 30 cm (12 inches)

away from the base of the wall and begin training by cutting back the leader immediately after planting. This stimulates the production of side shoots from which, through successive summers and winter pruning and tying, you will establish a framework of well spaced lateral branches studded with flowering spurs.

Some simple points to remember

1. After planting – stake and prune back to a healthy bud about a metre high (3ft) above ground level.

2. First summer pruning – tie in the vertical leader, then select two strong laterals and tie in at 45 degrees. Prune side shoots to about 15 cm (6 inches) or three of four buds to begin formation of flowering spurs . Remove any shoots from the base of the plant.

3. First winter pruning -cut back leader to about 1 metre (3ft) above the laterals to begin. Pull down laterals previously trained at 45 degrees and tie horizontally. Cut back by third of their length.

4. Second summer pruning – Tie in the leader and horizontal laterals as they grow. Prune side shoots to three or four buds. Select the next pair of laterals and tie in at 45 – degree angle. Again remove any basal growth.

5. Second winter pruning. Cut back leader and tie in laterals as the previous winter pruning. Prune back laterals by about a third of their length to ripen wood. Continue this sequence until the available space is covered.

6. After several years growing the wisteria will be established. Some thinning of lateral shoots growing may be required, this should be carried out in July or immediately after flowering. Prune the lateral growths back to four buds in July and then prune back to two buds the following February to produce two long flowering racemes rather than four shorter racemes of flower.



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