(I have a whole piece on the redways ready to post at some point, but that’s for another time!) I know that the stations nearby at Bradwell and Great Linford closed in the 60s, and that the railway is now part of the redway network. I’ve not been able to find much about the history of the tunnel, if there even is anything of note. It was closed recently for engineering works, but to me it looks exactly the same as it always has done… ancient, threatening and dark, with the river running underneath and trains thundering by overhead. I’m not sure if it’s the claustrophobically low roof or the water that drips down from it that makes this such an unsetting space to pass through, but there’s definitely something uneasy about the wooden bridge that passes through Tunnel 170 at Bradwell. This is a route-map to places you only go if you really want to explore the dark side of the city. I use the contrasts between an ancient landscape and what has come later, to examine our methods of constructing meaning in places, and have been informed by psychogeography as well as general reading of folk tales and conversations with local residents. My stories look at how its inhabitants (old and new) make sense of the eerie spaces that sit beneath, above and alongside the day-to-day ultra-modern veneer of the city and particularly how it appears to people who visit rather than those who live here full-time. The ‘Red Way’ in the title refers to the network of walking and cycling ways that are part of the structure of the city, but also harks back to an older and more sinister sense that these paths may have been trodden in blood and anger in earier times.
I’ve lived here for 21 years, and explored extensively to compile the material for this book. In the spirit of the modern gothic, the stories take everyday encounters and experiences and look at the ways that these may actually be anything but normal. “Taking the Red Way: Stories from the dark side of Milton Keynes” is a collection of short stories that explore the new city of Milton Keynes, my adopted home town. People know MK for the endless roundabouts and the concrete cows are infamous, but the concrete and the glass hide deeper, darker secrets. Milton Keynes is a place of contrasts: startling modern in a lot of ways, with a new-build history of less than a century but laid over a space far older.
Old Secrets, New Challenges is a quest that was introduced in Beyond Light and is unlocked after you have completed the quest called The Dark Priestess.Īfter taking out Kridis, the latest Dark Priestess, Variks has found another anomaly, one that comes from Bray Exoscience.
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