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Demolition event for 57 & 59 Jubilee Avenue, Milton Park

Past and present members of Milton Park’s innovation community gathered for a demolition ceremony to celebrate the science and technology that has spun-out of its wartime buildings. Although no longer habitable, the event was an opportunity to say a fond farewell to 57 and 59 Jubilee Avenue, Milton Park’s last two remaining single-storey wartime buildings prior to demolition, and to recognise their contribution to life-changing endeavours over the years. From their time as an RAF depot with early punch card machines and radio wireless technology, to life science companies using them for cancer research and Covid vaccines, the buildings have played host to a wide range of innovation over the years. 57 and 59 Jubilee Avenue were adapted to provide vital incubator space for pioneering science companies, which included early Oxford University spinouts such as Oxford Asymmetry International, acquired by Evotec and Avidex, which evolved into Immunocore and Adaptimmune. Representatives from these drug discovery multinationals attended the event to commemorate their origins in the buildings and shared their personal stories and anecdotes, while a replica cake, showing the ‘smarties’ who used to work inside the buildings, was demolished. Looking back on a century of innovation, the demolition of the buildings will enable Milton Park to build on its 2040 Vision, a future ambition to continue to support innovation for decades to come.