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‘Olney For You’: Town Healthcheck
The Olney Healthcheck, ‘Olney For You’, has gone from strength to strength since its launch in June of this year. With the success of the recruitment process, a broad range of diversity and interests has led to the formation of four working groups: Environment; Economy; Social & Community and Transport & Accessibility. All four groups have now begun to tackle the prominent issues the Town faces with the guidance of worksheets devised by the Countryside Agency. In order to capture the true views of the residents and users of the Town, they have devised a generic questionnaire, which covers key questions identified by all four working groups. We urge as many of you as possible to please take the time to complete this questionnaire. This will be placed in the Olney Phonebox (for those distributed within the town), at Olney Library and be carried out in survey form at occasional Market Days in the New Year. A website www.olneyhealthcheck.com has also been launched where people can comment on issues and ideas for the town. The results will be analysed to inform the group in creating a vision for Olney’s future.
There will be the opportunity for all residents to come along for refreshments and an update at an informal workshop on Tuesday 23rd January, 8.00pm at the Olney Centre. The working groups will be discussing progress to create the future ‘Vision for Olney’.
If you live or work in Olney and have not been to any previous events, but would still like to get involved or find out more, please contact Louise Clarke, Regeneration Officer at Milton Keynes Council, at either: louise.clarke@milton-keynes.gov.uk or 01908 252258. n
Olney and District Historical Society
Programme 2007
19th January – AGM – With a talk by Alan Richardson
A local historian and valued friend of the Society
21st February – Emberton Friendly Societies – Caroline Ellis
Well & Towers History Society (Emberton) Archivist and founder member
21st March – Your Family History – Dr Alan Evenson
A retired Chief Executive of Unilever
18th April – Mark Adkin – The Victoria Cross
Retired Army Officer, military historian and author
Meetings are held on the third Wednesday of the month at The Olney Centre room 4, starting at 7.30pm and visitors are always very welcome.
Everyone has heard of Cowper’s Oak, but do you know where the ‘Son of Cowper’s Oak’ is? You can find out all about it on the Societies website at www.olneyhistory.org.uk.
Read some letters from Percy Wright to his friends in the 90s, where he remembers changes to Olney throughout his long life. This article is a potted history of Olney.
The 1891 census for Olney has been added to the site which, together with the 1936 and 1945 registers of electors, adds to our database of information for family tree researchers. n
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