Spotlight: Centre:MK

The year 1979 was a different world. The first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had just moved into Downing Street, Queen Elizabeth had been on the throne 27 years, and Michael Jackson’s Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough was a top 5 hit.
It was also the year that saw the opening of Centre:MK, a 1.2m sq ft single-storey shopping centre in Milton Keynes – itself a fledgling town that had been founded 12 years prior as part of the wave of “new towns” in the wake of