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The famous Milton Keynes concrete cows made by Liz Leyh began life in 1978 as a temporary exhibit at the local museum (then the Stacey Hill Collection of Industry and Rural Life - now Milton Keynes Museum) before being moved to a field in Bancroft where they could be seen from the mainline railway.

They were replaced at that site by replicas made by Bill Billings and were moved to the INTU shopping centre for safe-keeping. There they grazed next to the  solitary oak tree used as an architectural feature in an open space in the centre. But the oak tree died (a long story!) and that space is being remodelled. So the original concrete cows have now been moved back to the Museum. (The replicas are still grazing at Bancroft).

They are iconic for the New City of Milton Keynes, where we have always been fond of them in spite of the way they have been used to ridicule our City.

The cows - all six of them - seem very happy in their new abode, with beehives nearby, trees to give them shade, and protection from abuse (we hope!).