King Charles III is visiting Milton Keynes today to make official the city status conferred upon it by the late Queen Elizabeth II. The King famously visited the Aston Martin factory near Milton Keynes in 1966, an experience which is said to have sparked his lifelong fascination with the British car manufacturer.

Milton Keynes was developed in the late 1960s as a "New Town", a solution to the population overspill London was experiencing at the time. The intention was to build a self-contained town in which people could live, work, and enjoy life. At the time the formal "new town designation order" was made in 1967, Milton Keynes was in fact a tiny farming village with a population of around 200. Today, the city's population stands at around 256,000.

This special report aired on 13 January 1967, and shows how local residents of the picturesque Milton Keynes felt about their village and the surrounding 22,000 acres being developed into a feat of social architecture and urban planning. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the idea was not too popular...

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