please empty your brain below
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I wonder why the whipping stopped at ten to seven? 😉
Jo W | 07.10.19 - 7:54 a.m. | #
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This system of guided busway and the larger network around Cambridge/ Huntingdon provide an excellent use of derelict rail track. There are parallel paths for bicycles and pedestrians.
It feels like the passengers are sharing their own taxi service!, especially during the rush hours!
Kenneth Morton | 07.10.19 - 8:20 a.m. | #
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Clearly you couldn't have "travelled from St Pancras to Dunstable in under an hour" because you've told us that Dunstable has no train station.
Writing this, I fear I may have fallen into some form of DG trap.
Frank F | 07.10.19 - 8:50 a.m. | #
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Always think twice before using the word 'clearly'.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.10.19 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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Dunstable was the location of the Met Office's Central Forecasting Office from 1940 to 1961. It was moved out of central London soon after the start of WWII to reduce the risk from air raids.
jack hopkins | 07.10.19 - 9:39 a.m. | #
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Did not know such a a thing as a busway existed until 9am today.
Kevin | 07.10.19 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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Despite signs at the entrance to the town proclaiming its historic market status, sadly there is little evidence today of a regular market in Dunstable. For ever since the local council washed its hands of the market in 2017 you would be lucky to find more than a couple of stallholders there even on a summer Saturday.
Chris K | 07.10.19 - 10:16 a.m. | #
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I found a single fruit and veg stall outside the entrance to Wilko. The Market Place was empty.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.10.19 - 10:18 a.m. | #
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Jo W - They didn't couldn't afford a night shift? :-)
Rogmi | 07.10.19 - 12:05 p.m. | #
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wot, no photo of an embroidered kneeler?
the other eric | 07.10.19 - 12:46 p.m. | #
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Apologies.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.10.19 - 12:52 p.m. | #
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The Quadrant Centre was opened by Bob Monkhouse in 1966. It looks as though the mural was already there when the centre was opened. It is an example of the public art that used to be commonplace in such schemes, now sadly much rarer. It was by William Mitchell: several of his other murals have been listed, but they are still underappreciated.
dg writes: Updated, thanks.
There was also a large clock with lots of metal tubes, which was removed in the 1980s.
Pevsner tartly commented in 1967, "Whose happiness do such things induce or increase?"
Andrew | 07.10.19 - 12:57 p.m. | #
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Fine craftsmanship and affording a front view without scaffolding. thank you.
the other eric | 07.10.19 - 2:07 p.m. | #
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How was Gary Coper Local?
dg writes: That link to Wikipedia was there to help you.
BRIAN BERKE | Homepage | 07.10.19 - 2:42 p.m. | #
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The area of grassland to the right in the busway photo looks to be the foot of Blows Down. (Not a joke name.)
This was reputed to be the site of the last melee you mention in your Dunstafact, DG.
Baldrick | 07.10.19 - 6:20 p.m. | #
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The shopping centre hosted the first ever Waitrose to open in a precinct (1966).
It shut in 1984.
Traveller | 07.10.19 - 8:56 p.m. | #
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