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PRESS RELEASES 2004

MKM04/02 - PAT FINDS ITS WEY HOME AFTER 80 YEARS - The only surviving example of a motor boat made by Edward Hayes of Stony Stratford has returned to Milton Keynes after 80 years. Built in 1924 “The Pat” is a 45 foot tug weighing around 30 tonnes that spent its working life on the River Thames. This unique boat, renamed “The Wey” during the 1930s, has been given to Milton Keynes Museum by its current owners the Environment Agency. It was transported to the Museum by road overnight on the 22/23 December and will be on public display from January onwards.

MKM04/01 - HISTORIC PLOUGHING MACHINERY RETURNS TO MILTON KEYNES (21 July 2004) - Historic ploughing equipment designed in North Buckinghamshire that helped to revolutionise farming in the 19th century has returned to the area to become part of the collection at Milton Keynes Museum. The items include some of the earliest known examples of steam ploughing equipment anywhere in the world and were designed by William Smith of Woolstone, now part of Milton Keynes. They arrived Milton Keynes Museum on Wednesday 21 July from their previous home at the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading.

ARCHIVE 2003

MKM03/02 - REPLICA GOLD NECK RINGS ON SHOW AT MUSEUM (1 November 2003)

MKM03/01 - MILTON KEYNES MUSEUM JOINS CONNECTED EARTH PARTNERSHIP (26 March 2003)

ARCHIVE 2002

MKM02/04 - GOLD MEDAL FOR MILTON KEYNES MUSEUM (3 July 2002)

MKM02/03 - HISTORIC RAILWAY PAPERS SAVED FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY IN MILTON KEYNES (25 June 2002)

MKM02/02 - MILTON KEYNES MUSEUM CELEBRATES REGISTRATION (27 March 2002)

ARCHIVE 2001

MKM01/02 - NEW BOGIES FOR HISTORIC TRAM (25 July 2001)

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