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A good point there about MK...on how it not just roundabouts, concrete cows and a shopping centre.
It of course also "incorporated" the towns of Wolverton (trains), Stony Stratford (cock & bull), Bletchley (Park) and Newport Pagnell (Iron Bridge & Aston Martin). |
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Now that's more like it!
I'll visit the village and give the town a miss! |
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Indeed there are many more points of interest in and around Milton Keynes, and if he wished to do so, I am sure that DG could write a dozen or so further articles about them. But he may well feel that other places or themes deserve a turn. I do admire the three he has written just now, though, and feel he has given a very fair and accurate snapshot of this interesting "city".
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Much joy that MK also has Ada Walk, Babbage Gate, Pascal Mews and Flowers Mews (there's also a street named after Tommy Flowers in Dollis Hill, on the site of the old PO Research Station, where he built the first electronic computer for Bletchley Park).
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Damn it! I didn't know you were in MK - I'd have tried to organise meeting you, had I been aware! (Particularly as you must've walked past my office building yesterday, FGS)
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Trawling around the village core on street view, two things give the game away: the very new-town-esque street nameplates, and the road humps reminding you that you are indeed still in suburbia.
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Lyle: a meeting with DG?! That be the day! More chance of meeting your favorite movie star!
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I'd always assumed they'd named the place after two local famous people, but it turns out that Johns Milton and Maynard Keynes aren't even very local.
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@Martin: I always thought MK was named after two economists with opposing views: Milton Friedman and John Maynard Keynes....
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