please empty your brain below
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You could live here, and you choose to live in Bow?
timbo | 12.10.16 - 7:25 a.m. | #
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Bedford's new bus station even has its own Bus Stop M.
Joachim | 12.10.16 - 7:26 a.m. | #
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1 day down nearly a month more to go :)
Al | 12.10.16 - 7:26 a.m. | #
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I'm moving - anyone have a 2 bedder to rent?
Kevin | 12.10.16 - 7:31 a.m. | #
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Wow,DG, what a lovely travelogue! Almost makes me want to live there. 😄
Jo W | 12.10.16 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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Lovely! I grew up in Bedfordshire and then Cambridgeshire, so visited Bedford frequently in my youth. But I've not been back to the town centre for decades but the river looks just as pretty.
Andrew | 12.10.16 - 7:47 a.m. | #
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....and I thought Bedford might be a bit boring!
ganching | Homepage | 12.10.16 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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Did you write this DG?
PJS | 12.10.16 - 7:55 a.m. | #
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Bus stop M is Set Down Only
Mike | 12.10.16 - 8:06 a.m. | #
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Helped by a regular commenter, I feel.
Gordon | 12.10.16 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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I remember when there were ex-London Routemasters in use in Bedford, from the late 80s. I wonder if they overlapped with dg's spell there, and if they served our ignored stop M
Dominic H | 12.10.16 - 8:10 a.m. | #
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Bedford Geezer will soon start receiving PR invitations from... the Bedford Business Improvement District probably.
Greg S | 12.10.16 - 8:38 a.m. | #
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Just the kind of positive coverage that supports strong property price growth.
| 12.10.16 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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Reads like a school geography exercise on tourism! I know Bedford well, went to secondary school there, and learnt some new things from DG's essay (thank you). (But he didn't mention the magnificent library!)
Half a physicist | 12.10.16 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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Thank you, the Ladybird Guide to Bedford.
David | 12.10.16 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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@ Dom H - oh look a RM in Bedford, https://www.flickr.com/photos/24759744@N02/9914758743/
I can't say if it ever served a stop M or not. It seems it spent its London life in West London so never ventured to Bow. It may even still be extant in Cancun, Mexico!
PC | 12.10.16 - 9:06 a.m. | #
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I have seen articles like this before. DG uses this style for a special reason. I do not understand the reason. But I do not mind.
Malcolm | 12.10.16 - 9:30 a.m. | #
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Bedford.
Attractions.
Forever.
(doesn't quite have the same ring)
Bert's wife | 12.10.16 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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Somehow, there's something eerily North Korean about those Blue Caps...
Gerry | 12.10.16 - 10:18 a.m. | #
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The new footbridge doesn't look too bad to me in that last photo.
In fact the whole town looks very nice.
Just the place for DGs retirement perhaps?
Cornish Cockney | 12.10.16 - 11:27 a.m. | #
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Oh gosh! That didn't quite come out as I intended!
I don't mean now! I mean, when the time does eventually come!!
Cornish Cockney | 12.10.16 - 11:29 a.m. | #
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I too was aware of the change of style for this post, and read on to get the expected punch-line, but it wasn't there.
Dave | 12.10.16 - 11:32 a.m. | #
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You're right that footbridge is banal, looks as if a crane collapsed.
Pity the can't afford a Calatrava.
Jerym | 12.10.16 - 12:01 p.m. | #
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@ Cornish Cockney: The footbridge in the last photo doesn't look too bad... but that's not the new one!
There does appear some irony inasmuch as, if it was the 'new' one that had been there first, and it was the one in the last photo that was the one that had been put in as the recent addition... the local complaints would - I think it's safe to assume - have been even louder!
RogerW | 12.10.16 - 2:32 p.m. | #
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Wonder if Bedford is a 'remain' or 'leave' place?
Grumpy Anon | 12.10.16 - 5:02 p.m. | #
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The footbridge in the last image is the kind you can buy in various sizes.
There is one on the Beverly Brook path or perhaps the Hogsmill, either way DG has seen it. A rather larger version is the new Walton-on-Thames road crossing.
OTOH if the Bedfordians got a different bridge from that expected then either they weren't paying attention or the planning permission is invalid.
Mike D (in Surrey) | 12.10.16 - 5:39 p.m. | #
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Bedford voted 51.8% leave.
Not prosperous enough without DG
dg writes: Exactly in line with the rest of the UK.
Mike D (in Surrey) | 12.10.16 - 5:43 p.m. | #
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I am now very confused by this bridge business. DGs photos show a masonry bridge and a white bowstring bridge with a horizontal deck. Following the link to the new bridge shows another white bridge with a much lower dose to the girders.
Googling Bedford Suspension bridge shows yet another bridge, superficially similar to the second but with a deck that is arched almost as much as the bowstring girder.
How many foot bridges are there in Bedford? Are there any road bridge s?
Timbo | 12.10.16 - 6:45 p.m. | #
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Joachim: sadly it appears Bus Stop M is set-down only
Al__S | 12.10.16 - 7:19 p.m. | #
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Coming soon to this blog (or maybe not)...
The Twenty-Seven Bridges of Bedford
diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.10.16 - 7:21 p.m. | #
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Can't wait for the next instalment.
No, really can't wait.
Autoycus | Homepage | 13.10.16 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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