Friday 28 January 2011

Longlived, Unstable

A little shout out for a new website devoted to that nursery of all the best people, wherever they end up, Dunstable.

The website is http://www.longlivedunstable.com/. Which you could read as "long live Dunstable".
Or you could read it as "long lived" "unstable".
If you consider it's on the crossroads of Icknield Way and Watling Street, and has been inhabited since that crossroads first existed, yes it's long-lived.
And if you walk the length of High Streets North and South on a Friday night, you may decide it's unstable.

But it's old, historic,in the beautiful Downs, the people have a certain strength of character, and it's resolutely not Luton. God bless them.

2 comments :

  1. I am disappointed that you prefer Dunstable to Luton. Luton is the pleasure palace of Bedfordshire with a vibrant, lively population and a wonderful airport (or so Lorraine Chase says).

    Some of my Ancestors came from Luton or thereabouts and we form good Yeomanry stock (or at least we have been described as that, not as politely).

    Dunstable is a nice place for the retired and workless, but not somewhere I would choose for an abode. Life in all of its variety is to be found in Luton.

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  2. I've spent time in both Dunstable and Luton and have no great desire to go back to either. But I do think that Dunstable could do with perking up, and if this website helps that - all to the good!

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