Ingrid Andress - Christmas Always Finds Me (Lyric Video)

Fond memories 1974-92

I lived in cosgrove from 78 to 89 and moved to Watford i was born in Shenley hill

Sadly MK was designed from the bottom, Downwards.

Houses for the great unwashed that nowhere else wanted.

The designers got there way so today MK is a modern slum.

I saw the writing on the wall and left Eaglestone in 1983. One of my best decisions.

thanks for posting this awesome video. its a shame not every town was like milton keynes. 😕 i moved to mk because after first visiting in 89 i fell in love with it. its such a shame its being destroyed by the government and corrupt council members. i wonder what the architects would think of whats been done to it now. 😕

I worked for the DC from 1968 to 89. I was the 4th member of what was then the department❤ of Arcitecture and Planning Great days and a great programme!

When we first moved there, every main road was covered in clumps of mud the size of a breeze blocks. You had to drive slowly and always be ready to swerve to avoid them.

I always wondered why the houses in the south were so much worse than the ones in the north...

The very same people with their big ideas, didn't realise what the consequences of their hubris would be.
We have imported the world's problems with the false illusion that diversity is king!
Take a look of what we've lost.
British Pathè will show all!

Very cool. I moved here in 1981 and it was fascinating to look back and see the city as I remember it back then. Also to realise just how new the city actually was when I first lived here. And , yes… we always called it the city.. even back then !

I don't think the city's architects .were bold enough.Where are the energy saving, self sufficient homes.We are finding today homes are poorly insulated.Quick to fall into disrepair ,poorly maintained,damp, mould and subject to mice and insect infestation . Milton Keynes has cost billions and all that has been achieved is the creation of sink estates.Everything is temporary.Iconic buildings like the point are considered unfit and to be demolished.The original buckinghamshire countryside looked beautiful.I think money would have been better spent on improving existing towns and cities.

I was profoundly, profoundly moved by this. I rang Neil Higson about 15 years ago, to talk about the Cathedral of Trees and the Buddhist Peace Pagoda, and he was so helpful, and kind. I'm very spiritual and the area around Willen Lake and the hospice is so loaded with love. The labryinth, the Buddhist peace pagoda (the first of its kind in the Western hemisphere), St. Mary Magdalene church and the Circle of Hearts Medicine Wheel, close to the pagoda. People of MK are so lucky. You are blessed by Neil's vision and the beauty he designed and it's so amazing he was granted carte blanche and sometimes the budget to realise his vision. Of course, the planners were old hippes, with Silbury and Avebury boulevards connecting up with their namesakes in Wiltshire. And the holy thorn trees at the tree cathedral linking up with the original thorn tree in Glastonbury, which reputedly grew after Joseph of Arimathea struck his staff into the ground, and it grew flowers, which only flower at Easter and Christmas. The Queen, and now King Charles, has a sprig of these flowers on their table on Christmas Day. So, MK people, you are blessed!


I miss my visits to MK, as we moved to the south west almost 5 1/2 years ago.

Mega dystopia! such destruction of green fields and old villages .... such hatred for trees, for insects, for birds and small animals like water voles and anything organic and such love for concrete and more concrete and asphalt and cars and commercial 'premises' and
shopping malls ( more and more redundant in the online shopping age) makes me weep. Prioritising cars on 50mph roads too...
what short sighted American nonsense--- money in the pocket of Marples and the other corrupt politicians, sponsors of and builders of motorways to which the major roads crisscrossing the countryside would join... car first,then commerce, people after. Ecology NOT AT ALL
Horrible!!! Llewellyn Davis and his mates should be ashamed of themselves .... with their lego brick games, and of course this hateful
individual and his well paid mates had no interested in improving the housing in London or Tiger Bay which they wittered about as an excuse
for making £££££ out of the destruction of farmlands. Much easier and more profitable to provide 'housing' by concreting woodland . 
( even make extra ££££ by selling the wood) His view is ... dig up destroy move on, and abandon.
"Low Density" the 'man' says, and seemed proud of it. The worst 'solution' everyone knows now.
"City of trees"! What a joke ... cut to film of bulldozers and diggers with the caption and speech "pressure of housing" so... eliminate any trees.
Liars anf hypocrites these people. Do any of them , or their descendants, live in 'the concrete sprawl' of MK, or rather in a remaining Buckinghamshire village ( if there is one) ?

Lived in MK from 1989 to 2013 and saw it expand into a great place…
Have great memories.
Thank you for this brilliant video.🙏🏽

I'm one of those people who would come to Milton Keynes to go on a walk about. To explore the labyrinth. I grew up in the 80's, in Bletchley and Newport Pagnell. Still had family in the Bradwell area. But never really had I exploded the vast redways of m.k. But around 2011, I started coming from the Midlands to walk around and explore m.k. Parking at Bradwell village and just walking all day. Many wonderful days spent in parks around M.K just finding peace. Amazing city for it's design. Gets for to much stick but is one of my favourite places to visit and just walk around those footpaths and parks. Well done to all involved in its design 👏

I used to ride trials bikes at Bleak Hall with Don Ritson