EPW022453 ENGLAND (1928). St George the Martyr's Church and environs, Wolverton, 1928

fire station

offices

Fitting, electric, brass, tool room and millwrights shops enclosed in the orriginal square building of 1838. Steam locos were originally built there until the amalgamation of the London Birmingham Railway and the London North Western Railway in the mid 1800s The building had rendered porticos to simbolise and show off the 'Works' All gone now. Its a Tesco!!!

Kings the bakers. Famous for the lovely smell of fresh bread baking every day. Along Church St and up Rdcliffe St and into 'The Square' it drew your taste buds towards their small shop front.

Queen Victoria Hotel, one of the first CAMRA pubs in the 1980s

No3&5 Stratford Road. Owned by Muscett & Tomkins. A sweet and tobaconist/newspaper empire where my mother worked.

Paint shops and finnishing shops.

LMS Railway Works main entance, adjacent to the two storey canteen where there was a stage in the lower half.

New Bradwell houses, 'Corner Pin' before the new road layout

Royal Train Store post 1965

Wolverton LMS Railway station

Radcliffe Street

Glyn Square

Ledsam Street

Creed Street

Church Institute

Boy's School became The Market.

Stratford Road

The Vicarage

Moon Street

Oxford Street

Bedford Street

Green Lane

Aylesbury Street

Buckingham Street

Roman Catholic Church

Methodist Chapel

Congregational Chapel

51 Church Street, my grandfather and father ran a printing business from here.

The Square

Science and Art Institute built by the railway company became the Wolverton Technical School.