FAO Sillywrong

Hello! Yes! Lived there my whole life, until I was about 18 then i moved to Northampton (!!!) then moved around a bit and landed in Manchester a few years later!

I lived next to the Racecourse for a lot of my time in Npton - off the Kettering Road - and then moved to Kingsthorpe Road near the Barratts pub and then on St James Road for a bit (my memory isn't that good, I totally just had to look on a map to remember all the places I lived while there - it was 1997!!!)

My old man is still in MK, so I'm down there fairly often!

How strange!

Yes my brother lives just off the Kettering Road so know that area quite well.

My SIL lives not far from Loughton.

At work we had a site in Broughton MK (which I'd call Braw-ton) and now we've got one in Broughton (brow-ton) near Kettering, you wouldn't believe the confusion this causes!

<crash> I used to live near the concrete cows and climb on them most weekends and my sister lives in Northampton...

*Stop press* .. Pitta, I grew up in Bradwell Village!!! Did you!? Did you go to my school!? Do I know you!?

I knew it began with B but couldn't remember the name! What year were you born? I'm 1978, probably well older than you!

79!! (April)

Did you go to Bradwell Middle School!?

Hello from another MK girl! I grew up in Bletchley!

Ha!! I lived in Bletchley until I was 7 or 8!

I feel a bit like every time someone says where they lived I'm responding "me too"!

A few of us then!

Nixy my MIL lives in bletchley too.

Hahaha, small world! My parents still live in Bletchley, we pop over on a regular basis as we're only about 35 minutes away now.

I'm in Northampton too! Lived in The Mounts near the Racecourse as a baby, then Kingsthorpe, then Goldings and now live in Little Blling near the Weston Favell Centre, proper eastern district girl me!

Don't forget Boughton ( near Moulton) pronounced Bowton...

CRL don't you find it odd that we could have walked past each other in the street. (or probably in Weston Favell!)

I live up near Mereway Tesco so out the other side of town to you.

Ah I much prefer the Weston Favell Tesco...you get to go on the travelator things!

Small world. I work in Brackmills so not far from Mereway and the rush hour joys of the A45 ?

again .... me too! I lived on St Michaels Mount.

Really small world! I lived in Burns Street (off Hood Street/Colwyn Road) as a baby.

Oh yes, gotta love the travelators!

I work at The Lakes, so next junction down. At the moment the A45 is great as it's school holidays but normally it's cr@p!

Yep I know the Lakes, my Dad works there. You're the right side for the Lakeside or the Britannia (where I had my first date with OH!). I am the other side of Brackmills, where there is nothing other than a burger van on a good day!

Yeah love the Brit, especially when it's sunny, makes it difficult to go back to work if I go over there at lunchtime.

Your Dad doesn't work for a company beginning with R on The Lakes does he? I'm trying to be cagey because this site is google-able!

No he works for the Council. Not sure what other companies are down there to be honest!

Wow - we were practically neighbours, though probably at different times!

Just butting in here, I grew up in Northants! I lived in Shutlanger which isn't far from Towcester, went to Stoke Bruerne primary and then Roade School. We moved up to Scotland because of my Dad's work, but I was there for 12 years!

Used to go to MK shopping centre at weekends a LOT - I'd love to go back for a nostalgia trip!

I am in Milton Keynes too, well technically Newport Pagnell nowadays but I grew up in MK. My sister and mum now live in Northampton, my sister is off the Wellingborough Road and my mum lives on West Hunsbury.

I was born in 1979 and went to St Pauls so SillyWrong and Pittabre I bet we know some of the same people as MK is such a small place ! I know a lot of people that went to Stantonbury and Radcliffe which are near where you both grew up !

Are you a similar age Holey ? You may well know my BIL, otherwise my sister went to secondary school in Northampton so all her close friends are from there, she was born in 82

Oh and my H and a lot of my friends are from Bletchley, most of them now live in and around Church Green Road and Bletchley Park, H grew up on Chepstow/Racecourses, very small world !

Which secondary school? I went to Kingsthorpe Upper as it was known then.

I grew up on Church Green Road, my parents still live there! I'm a similar age, was born in 1980 and went to Lord Grey!

My sister went to Parkside, it used to be on the Bedford Road but is now all flats.

I am not sure about my BIL, is Mereway a school, that rings a bell ?

I bet we know loads of the same people, I know quite a few people that age that went to Lord Grey and 2 of my closest friends would have been the year above you !

Yes Mereway is a school, other side of town to me but I know it!

Oh my god, lurker here but also grew up just off church green road. Went to rivers and rickley but then popped off to school in Aylesbury. I'm 1980 too so we may all know each other! Freaky!

Niche mereway is a school, that's really close to where live.

I was born in 87 so too young.

This is really weird!

I'm 1980 too. Popular year!