Image Archive.

We look after thousands of 35mm slides and photographic prints, originally as duplicates on behalf of English Partnerships (successor body to the Milton Keynes Development Corporation). These images chart the development of the new town from farming fields and historic buildings of the late 1960s to the theatre and gallery development approaching the new millennium.

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  • You can either search or browse the catalogue. To browse, click the link above and use the arrows or page numbers in the top right to navigate between pages. To search, click the link and then use the "Current Search" box to enter your search terms. In this box make sure your search always starts with collection: “Image Archive” AND. After the AND you can put your search term. If it’s more than one word, put quotation marks around the phrase.

    Examples:

    • collection: “Image Archive” AND oldbrook

    • collection: “Image Archive” AND redway*

    • collection: “Image Archive” AND “bradwell common”

    The asterisk in the second example makes sure the search will return all records that contain both redway and redways.

  • The images are and remain the property of Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre and are made available under the Open Government Licence v3.0. You can use them for private, non-commercial research purposes only – any other usage requires permission from us and may incur a fee. Please contact us with more details.

  • We can provide up to ten low resolution images from the Image Archive for no charge upon completion of a copyright declaration. Note down the reference numbers for the images you would like to have copies of (this is the ‘Object Number’ in the catalogue record) and contact us for a copyright declaration. If you require more than ten images, there is a £5 +VAT charge per image over ten.

  • We can provide high resolution images for publication for a charge. Please contact us for more details. Please note, we don’t own the copyright to the majority of images in the Image Archive and it is your responsibility to clear any intellectual property rights prior to publication.

  • We have made every effort to clear copyright and other intellectual property rights prior to making material available online. If you feel you own the copyright to any image we have made available online, please see our Notice and Takedown Policy to help us resolve this.

  • If you have any corrections to an image’s catalogue record, or further information you think it would be useful to include, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us with the image reference number (this is the ‘Object Number’ in the catalogue record) and the correction/addition.