Leafleting In Bradwell Village

On Friday 5th March 2010 I drove to the Labour Hall to collect the old minute books, and met for the first time Claire who works for Dr Phyllis Starkey MP in the office, we had spoken so many times on the telephone so it was nice to put a name to a face, we had a long chat and left to meet a friend to have breakfast with at a Cafe in the Wolverton Agora.

Later in the day I recieved a text from Andrew Pakes that he would be leafleting in Bradwell Village at 2:00pm.

I arrived in plenty of time and he turned up with Pete Marland, in one close there was a lady wearling curlers in her hair saying she would not be voting for any one Andrew pointed out to her that if the Tories get in she could lose her Winter Fuel Allowance, which was backed up by her daughter.

When walking in the heart of the village I was chatting away to Andrew and Pete when I heard a womans voice that said "I reconise that voice" it was my former middle school Headteacher Pauline Irons she was lugging a couple of sacks and was just going to the allotments, I just hope that if I reach her age I am so active as I bet she walked all the way from Bradville where she lives.

It was a trip down memory lane for me as I represented the area on Milton Keynes Council and remembered the various characters that lived there and who attended my surgeries sadly some are no longer with us such as Alderman Ray Bellchambers.

When we had finished Andrew gave me some leaflets to do next weekend for Heelands, my foot is beginning to trouble me again which I will need to watch I thought was no longer going to be an issue for me after losing two (2) stone in weight, mind you I have put more on though lately I think.

Once I got home I noticed I really need a new pair of shoes as the inside soles have crumbled away, the General Election has not even started offically and I am wearing away shoe leather.

I looked through the bag of minute books and what a treasure trove after the General Election I plan to read each page as I've only had a chance to skim through them and they were facisnating, a real history of comrades passed and some are still active in the Party, here is what the minute books covered:

• General Committee 1966 - 1980
• Executive Committee 1960 - 1962
• Executive Committee 1962
• Executive Committee 1972-1977
• Wolverton Branch 1917-1924
• Bradwell Branch 1917 - 1924
• Bletchley Branch 1944 - 1948
• Wolverton Young Socialists 1960 - 1968

I have bought some box files to put them in so that they will lovingly be looked after.

Also today I went To Brantano's at Central Milton Keynes to buy some new shoes ready for action next week.