A very Rough Guide to Milton Keynes 1993
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- So a bit of background about this video. Back in 1993 (we think January to March time), my best friend Cameron and I decided to do a tour of Milton Keynes and where we worked for our friend Lincoln who had moved back to Hong Kong and my friend Debbie (Deb) who had moved back to Australia.
I'm not sure they even got to see this but I guess they will once it goes live. We still keep in contact with them and they still live in Hong Kong and Australia.
Looking at the video I think it was recorded on a Saturday during the winter months. Evesham Micros where I used to work was open until 7pm on a Saturday and towards the end of the video, you see us go back to the store when it's dark. The daytime scenes are quite busy and that makes me think, it had to be recorded on a Saturday, probably in November. It looks like November weather.
Cameron at the time worked for Touche Ross (now Deloitte) in their computer room. So he had a card that got us into the building for a quick tour. No idea how we got onto the roof but I guess back in the day, no one cared.
I worked for Evesham Micros in the support department at the Milton Keynes Branch. It's great seeing all those big box products on the shelves. Nowadays, you download everything and computer monitors are massively "bigger" but super light. I even remember having a separate computer for email (if I remembered to turn it on). No one knew what email was for and it was hardly used.
Hope everyone enjoys it. Please check out my other video from years gone by in Milton Keynes
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Chapters
00:00 Driving at the back of The Point Cinema
00:29 - Saturday traffic at the side of The Point (and yes we are driving very close to that car!!)
02:20 - Inside The Point Cinema (UK's first multiscreen cinema)
03:11 - Drive down the main road in front of The Point Cinema
04:44 - Business area of the City Centre
05:25 - Tour of Touche Ross computer room (where my friend Cameron worked)
07:02 - On top of the roof of Touche Ross building (no idea how we got there)
08:28 - Skyline tour/description by Leonard (I look so young....and thin)
08:54 - Milton Keynes Law Courts (new at the time).
09:11 - Witan Court (Evesham Micros)
09:59 - Inside Evesham Micros - Check out those computers!! And I even have a separate computer just for email.
10:11 - Tour of Evesham Micros Support Department (where I worked)
10:49 - Store Room
11:27 - Office and staff (baggy shirts were all the style back then)
13:03 - The infamous empty box area. Any product out on display, we kept the box and it was stored here. Took forever to find one if you sold a display model.
13:18 - Witan Court courtyard
13:23 - Ground Floor storeroom
13:36 - Showroom
13:43 - Abbey National Building (aka Santander)
14:14 - Drive-Thru Mcdonalds at the Train Station. Worth noting it's in a field as nothing has been built around it, unlike today.
14:53 - Ordering at the drive-thru. Laughable what we ordered. Nowadays it would be so much more food.
15:35 - Chicago Rock Cafe/Central Milton Keynes Bus station
15:58 - Central Milton Keynes Train Station
17:05 - Saxon Street, heading towards Springfield
17:55 - Driving into Springfield
18:40 - Driving towards Tesco at Kingston
20:05 - Kingston Shopping District in the distance
21:33 - Inside Kingston Shopping
21:53 - Nighttime driving up a city centre
23:16 - Witan Court/Evesham Micros - Late evening
23:26 - Evesham Micros Showroom
23:50 - More City Centre driving
24:09 - Before contactless payments, we had to get cash out. How massive is this machine at Midland Bank
24:31 - Iconic Point Cinema in Milton Keynes
24:50 - More driving
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This was brilliant. I was born in MK and raised in Conniburrow. I now live in Boston, USA so to put the MK i knew into context for my mates over here, this video was perfect. The footage of the inside of the Point was nostalgic. What a town it was to grow up in, looks & feels vastly different yet oddly quite similar.
You never forget your roots of being born and raised in Milton Keynes and it stays in your heart no matter where you live in the world. You live in Boston USA (been there as well, really nice city) and I live somewhere in Eastern Europe but we are MK Boys through and through.
MK has changed a lot over the years but it will always be my hometown and yours.
Thanks for putting this up brings back memories - Tunes - clothes - cars - city centre - point - winter gardens - if you got anymore please put it up lol
Great footage. Brings back a lot of memories. Especially the old drive down midsummer boulevard. And the 90’s tunes! ❤️ thanks for this 👍🏼
What a time to be alive, 1993 was a great year, used to go to the weekly Rock club in The Point on a Thursday night, other nights we would just cruise around the City (like you boys) and take the occasional visit to Sams Kebabs or over to Jeff's van outside the Blacksmiths on Downs Barn. Doesnt seem like 5 minutes ago seeing this awesome footage so thankyou for letting me relive it once again!
Jon - Thanks. Yes, Sam Kebabs made the best burgers. Used to go there in the evening during the week. Out of interest, you mention Jeff's Van outside the Blacksmiths. My older brother is called Jeff and had a burger van around that time. He used to be outside the cinema at Bletchley and Razzells in Bletchley. I did ask I'm if he ever did go outside the Blacksmiths but he said he can't remember.
Even though the video is more personal to me and my friend in it, it's nice to see so many people enjoying the memories. I guess I didn't do anything different than what other people did; driving our cars, hanging out with friends having a good time. No mobile phones, no internet, living at home with your parents.
Sam's Kebabs is no longer there but that unit still trades as a kebab shop.
So hard to imagine that the bit where “the new bit”/midsummer place is currently, that you just drive right on through past what’s now the holiday inn. So strange!
Legend says that Ford Orion is still looking for a parking space..
I remember back when the shopping centre opened (79) it felt quite space aged and clean and there wasn't anything else like it. It had palm trees inside, by the 90s it was starting to show it's age. Fond memories of "The Point" it was an iconic building, even if the spacial design of it was completely flawed :) It's due to be demolished soon (if not already)
Hi Leonard,
This is another excellent video of MK, the cars that were on the road have changed and this video is an excellent piece of history of life back then. There were more socialising and a very lively atmosphere. Life was much more simpler and everything in the video shows all buildings are all clean than it is today as there way more traffic on the roads, chaos, a lot more to relying on phones, vandalism, loads of negative events like covid, wars and cost of living crisis. Though you don't work for EM any more instead Please can you do a driving tour of this place from the outside using same routes for us to see please? Thanks for the posting this and I look forward for more videos!
Love this, brought back some great memories (and not so good ones of trying to park!). I worked at Touche Ross at the same time, but on the 2nd floor and cannot remember the chap in the video, but it was such a blast seeing the old office.
Loved the 'electronic mail machine' this is a good vid. Thanks for sharing
It’s almost like a time capsule . Love it
Thank you so much for uploading. This is incredible
Fantastic footage. Good foresight :) Thanks for sharing
I'm 33 years old and still living in MK for 33 years, makes me feel old watching this video. good old days.
Man this got me all emotional I miss these days so much. The night time drive made me realise that I was a 13 year old lad at home in eagle stone at this moment. Man those were the good old days👍🏻🥲
Great video. Crazy to see Dave Stephen so young. I worked in Evesham technology in Witan Court about 7 years after this. Can’t believe that the showroom was the same for 10 years 👍🏼
Wow! This really takes me back. Feels like yesterday I was standing in the Point cinema waiting for my girlfriend to show up. So strange how much has changed in those years, and yet so much of it is still there. Feels like they've actually done a good job of maintaining the spirit of the city without it becoming too "different". Although, I have to admit, the loss of the Point will be a major blow to the city and our nostalgia.
Thanks for sharing this, was a lovely trip down memory lane.
Love this, thanks for sharing
fantastic footage, many thanks
Brilliant video, very interesting to see as I only moved here 8 years ago
Loving the tunes in the car especially at the start.. Good Times
This is so poignant. I lived in MK from 1980- 1995, 25 when I left. So you’ve captured the last ‘moments’ of my life there perfectly. I’ve not been back to that part of MK since - so in my head it’s still like this 😄
Glad you like it. It has changed a lot but the memories are still there. The main shopping centre is pretty much the same, same roads, same trees etc. Lots of new buildings and what were nice places to live, now they are run down. But that is normal for 25 years. At least we are a proper City now.
This was really interesting, I was born in august of that year just up the road in Northampton, Mk doesn’t look much different even today! 👍
The good old days when you could drive past The Point, before they built 'The New Bit' and killed the old oak tree. I remember feeling sad about the Studio in Bletchley closing down, but happy about the shiny new multiplex at the city centre. I wonder how much longer the Xscape cinema will last, it's getting on a bit itself, now.
Brilliant video - thanks
Driving down midsummer blvd past the point- shame you can’t do that now as they built midsummer place there! And great to see Marks and Spencer being built- I always forget this wasn’t an original part of the centre
such good footage! from Milton Keynes myself been here since 1995
Went into that Evesham Micros shop in ‘93/‘94 and was blown away by a P90 smoothly running Doom (unlike my 386 at home poor thing)
Thanks for the video I was born 2004 it looks so much different than it is now i don't believe Kingston tesco is nearly 30 years old and great footage of Abbey national christ the cornerstone and the office buildings
Amazing vid mate cheers
I was about 9 when this was filmed but I can remember when Marks and Spencer opened and Leslie Joseph opened up the new exstenion to the cmk shopping centre the place has changed so much over the years
Oh. My. Goodness! This video!!! :-O :-O
I worked right there, at Evesham Micros, very close to the time this was filmed! I reckon I was there around the summer of '94! - it was a part time Saturday job, I was still in 6th form.
For me personally, the fact that this video even exists (of the showroom, the storeroom and office) - I find astonishing.
That I randomly happened to have stumbled on this youtube clip - has utterly blown my mind :-D
@leonard, I don't think we met (if we did, it was in passing, and I don't remember you) ... as I think you were only there weekdays. However, I remember Dave (the guy at 11:35) very clearly!
Glad you like it. Can I ask who you are? I might remember you. I used to go in at the weekends to hang out and do stuff so I probably remember the weekend staff. Glad you like it.
I probably bought my Creative Labs Sound Blaster card from you.
Great video!
Good video MK gone down the pan now 😅
Bought one of my first PC's from that Evesham Micros
Such a great video
Cool footage , reeks of 90s massive :)
Those were the days!
Omg, it reminds me of how mk used to be, mind you i was 13 back then. The person drove into springfield. I never left and still live on the estate. It has changed and has become overgrown in the back and alley ways. I worked in the abbey building, but when it was santander. Mk center has changed but some of it still looks the same and has come a long way. I am an 80's baby and seen it grow.
Early 90s fashion was so cool
This was nostalgia for me. MK 🤝🏻
Love looking back at how MK used to be
wow!! cool video. I live there
Great tune 👌 forgot that one!
Evesham Computers(!) Witan Court is still there, Android being refurbished, it's it's mostly "hot desk" solutions now and with COVID and home working that whole quarter of "the city" is a bit of a ghost town now
The good old days. Brings back some great memories.. grew up in mk on Springfield.. frequently went to Chicagos the point and golden flamingos occasionally director's... back then I would have been working at Cafe moonshine and the bowling alley.
Keep an eye open for my new Come Drive With Me videos. Springfield is coming up on 3rd December
There’s vids are top takes me right bk I was 24 in 93 The 90ts were so fecking good ✌️
My god,you had a drive thru in '93. Don't know how lucky you was.
Freeeeee to do what I want any old time… peace man .
I love this so much...thank you for capturing this and sharing. I have a question as I've been doing a little of my own research. Do you recall a Bath & Body Works store opening or being around in 1994 in Milton Keynes? I have a TH-cam channel about Bath & Body Works and I love mall/retail history. I had purchased some 90s photographs of a Bath & Body Works store that I assumed was in America (since it's mainly an American store) but the caption says it was in Milton Keynes. The only Milton Keynes mall I can find is in the UK (you never know...sometimes US names things after UK stuff so I wasn't sure haha) If there was a Bath & Body Works store there during the 90s, my understanding is that Milton Keynes now only has a pop up Bath & Body Works situation rather than a full store. So I'm just trying to piece this together...any insight of your memories would be greatly appreciated! Thanks again for sharing this video, I loved watching it! 😊
Hi, I happened to see your comment as I stumbled across this video. I lived in MK from 1979 - 2003. There was definitely a Bath and body works store that opened in the shopping centre (around 1994/95) but I remember it being there for a very short time until it closed down. The only reason I remember is because my mum loved one of the products, which I still pick up for her now when I visit the US. Hope that helps!
@@stevefa2577 Thanks for the insight! Since leaving this comment, I was actually able to learn a little more about this Bath & Body Works location. I was able to converse with someone that worked at the Milton Keynes BBW, and reached out to a photographer who took pictures of the store for the newspaper The Independent back in 1994. Do you remember which product specifically you would get for her? That's sweet! Thanks again!
@@MelissaC That’s great that you managed to track down that information. Did they tell you how long it was open for as it felt like a very short time back then! The product I always try to pick up for my mum is the sun ripened raspberry spray.
Brilliant 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Amazing video do you have any more 90s footage of MK or even 2000s?
Hey you earned a sub
Greatest 80s localised video on TH-cam? Ashes of Civilisation: Liverpool, 1985. I think it's intentional comedy. In fact, I'm certain of it. But it also makes the videos about MK, Inverness, Melton Mowbray, Peterboough, etc. feel like they're set in the Copa Cobana. Actually, it makes Pripyat/Cherrnobyl films look like the Copa Cobana. However, it's the Scousers who have the Barry Manilow haircuts.
Thanks for posting this! I worked at Evesham, originally sorting the OSM parts, and then on the support desk from about 1993 to 2000. We never got to visit any of the branches so great to have a look now! Will never forget, "Good afternoon, you're through to technical support, my name is Richard, can I take your serial number please?". One question, but who did you say had that office when he visited once a month?
It used to be used by Hans Reitz and his his deputy who I think was called Sarah. Not sure. Hans drove a Nissan Z300. He worked mainly out of the Cambridge office.
@@watchme.leonardpowers thank you, I don't know him (I wondered if it'd be Rich Austin, Colin Wright, Mac or Luke Ireland or similar!).
17:21 no difference in driving style since 1993 I suppose using left turning lane then straight into the right lane at the roundabout and go across what a mess.
Could I possably copy you footage so I can use clips in a Video showing MK then 1993 and Now? Thanks A.P
Yes I don't mind. Just include a mention that the original material was used with permission from Leonard Powers with a link to my original youtube video.
Fantastic footage, although some (or all) of it will be later than 1992 as there is a L registration car near the end of the video. Regardless, life was much simpler back then!
Jayco - Awesome Spot. I'll amend the video title. My friend and I were trying to figure out when we filmed it and I didn't think to look at car number plates.
@@watchme.leonardpowers sorry, I’m OCD and in a previous life was paid to observe situations/people and remember very small details. The other obvious clues to the year were the Meatloaf song playing in the showroom (released in 1993), and the CMK extension at the Dickens and Jones end (built in 1993 but opened in late 1994). I’d say the month would be December, judging by what look like Xmas cards hanging in Rachel’s office 👍.
@@jayrave4 nice spot. I was just checking out the massive Austin metro population
Oh fucking hell how simple was our lives
Nice
Going sanctuary in November
What is the song at the opening of the video called ? 🤔
Here you go. Such an awesome song.
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I see an OU sticker in the window- did the driver work there? And did that blonde lad ever work at Unisys?
I worked at Unisys when I was 17 years old until I was around 19. I'm the one doing the tour of Evesham Micros.
@@watchme.leonardpowers ok this might sound weird but what year were you at unisys and what kind of thing did you do there?
@@haslerdesigns I think it would have been 1987 to 1989. Started as a Call receipt specialist, taking calls from engineers and logging their work and telling them what jobs they needed to do. Then moved to a department where we took calls from customers who logged the support issues.
Did we work together. I can remember a Steve, Gary, 2 Irish girls. Manager was Pete Frohock. Worked at Unisys at Dawson Road., Bletchley.
@@watchme.leonardpowers I did a few weeks work experience at Unisys in what would have been 1996 or 97, so I not at the same time as you were there. I loved my work experience there and I was gutted to see recently on a visit to Willen that the Fox Milne building has been demolished :(
Please tell me you have more?
Did you work in whats now the QA IQ training center?
back when mk was great! :'-(
The year i was born
you should do a new 2022 retake
That would be hard considering the Point is now closed, you can't drive along Midsummer without hitting the added shopping building and they probably no longer work for EM lol
There are a few other channels with driving/walking videos around CMK though, it's worth checking those out if you want a more recent view.
To any youngsters watching, this wasn't recorded on a mobile phone - cameras on phones wasn't a thing back then!
Back when MK was nice and not over run by every ethnicity in the world. Great Video thankyou, glad you was in MK back then as no where on the planet could compare only we know what it was truley like !!
No Somalis then