The Stuff We Can't Fit In Somewhere Else in Luton, Bedfordshire*

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• its not the worst place in the world, but certainly not the best.
• It's no good having litter pickers, we need a strong deterrant NOW!! and some police on the beat! Why do these boys break into cars to steal bog standard radios? (I'm sure Runfold Avenue residents know what I mean).
• i think that luton is very racist and people need to learn to take the blame for there actions its no
• Mick Harford does not own a club in Luton- it closed about 4 years ago. The footbridge mentioned doesn't like 2 railway stations. There are only 3 in Luton, and they are miles and miles away from each other. The footbridge links town to the railway station and smells of wee wee. If you are a student, don't even bother with the Union- it's only slightly bigger than my front room.
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• I lived there from 94-97 as a student and loved it, I was never threatened, never witnessed any violence (got burgled instead) and found the locals friendly. The surrounding countryside was beautiful too, some towns/cities have nowhere decent to go for miles.
• I have just seen this website and felt the urge to give three cents worth. I lived in Luton from 1999- 2001. I lived in Morris Close, Copenhagen Close and Whipperley Ring. My experience was a good one on the Farm, but not so in Farley Hill, due to the racists and there were a good many of them.I went back to London but come up to Luton every so often. I found it an alright place. It is like anything else, you get the best from what you give.

• why dont we have a regular outside music event on st georges sq or a few classic and hotrod car events in the town on the square
• Thameslink trains will faithfully take you for good days out in London and return you late at night. There is no public transport within Luton as Arriva buses run the most negligent and frustrating service imaginable. Drivers will ask you get off the bus early if the driver is finishing his shift instead of taking you into the town centre.
• fOR ALL THE FUCKERS THAT SAID WATFORD WAS SHIT. kISS MY ASS U AINT EVER BEEN THERE.
• This town is really really really really really really really shit. The people in this town are really really really really really really really shit.
• Luton sixth Form College, South Luton High School - motto- 1st priority is to live, 2nd is to learn!
• Does anyone remember the Bury Park Youth Posse? They had their initials (BPYP)scrawled on everything in the "early 80's". We were girls so we were always scared of them lurking at the end of Oak Road. There's usually a computer fare every other Sunday at Vauxhall recreation club. You can tell I'm a nerd, can't you? If you go up to Hart Hill Lane at night, you get a great view of Luton all lit up an shimmering.
• The fucking cunts who have a problem with people that are not white, you are asking to be shot in the head. If you have a problem with the coloured community do this town a favour and take your fat pompous arse somewhere else. Oh yeah and another thing we aint going nowhere so you can do two things nothing and like it.

• students just coz your from london does not mean you are better as im sure a lot of you will find out as you give a screw look to one person whos had enough believe it or not london aint the only place people can barny oh yeah and the evisu jeans at least try a iffernt style
• Luton is cool, hard , dark and down to earth. We are a melting pot of cultures that doesnt always gel that well but we do our best. We get pissed, fight, laugh, cry, shag. Everything every other town is doing, but Luton does it all that much better!!!!
• Lov ethe way lutonians actually try to think they live in a nice place. It really REALLY isn't. I live in Dunstable which is marginally better BUT STILL COMPLETE AND UTTER SHITE. Bedfordshire (incl Luton) people think they're the dogs danglies and yet the place is crap. Distinct lack of a decent night life. Cheese and pop garage still tearing up the dicotheque dance floors at @mosphere and liquid, makes me so happy that i live most of the year in the midlands. The nearset luton had to a decent underground music sound was the days of the exodus raves and they seem to have gone. Everyone i meet that has been to luton look down their nose at me when i say i live near there (lets face it no ones heard of cuntstable) and they have every reason to. Most of the people are scummy(no disrespect to those who aren't but you're few and far between) and have fuck all money, hence the fact the area is crime ridden, cheap to buy houses in and has no investment made in it. Shame the marsh farm riots didn't pread and burn the whole lot down. The worst thing is that most of the scum that you expect to see walking round the arndale are now spreading up to milton keynes shopping centre. Tis is probably because this concrete city is about 150% more appealable than luton. You not frightened of getting mugged or beaten up. The train station is shit, the airport is shit, the sjhopping centre is shit and the people are shit, so why didn't it get city status? Apart from these there is also the fact that there is fuck all in the town. Wheres the big ring roads usually asscoiated with cities. Where the big department stores. Wheres the big theatre in the town? Wheres the nice area of residential areas around the edge of town? Where the nice buildings in the town centre? Where the friendly pubs? Where the nice coffee bars? Wheres the pleasnat and slightly expensive bars? Where is anything? The only good thing, and its a very good thing, about luton is the towns very own football team. 10 years from top to bottom, and 5 years back up again. But please when are we gonna get the new stadium? The only decent people in luton are at the football matches they deserve better, they deserve not to live in luton. LUTON - A HELL IN ALL BUT NAME RH
• Luton has the greatest university in the world .... the greatest university for drinking, falling on your face in front of the Union, and puking up in the bushes by the Arndale Centre at 3am! Hi to everyone who was at uni from 1993-96... didn't we have a ball!! (at Luton Hoo?!)
• GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING: To avoid depression and possible suicide DO NOT visit Luton, Bedfordshire.
• Luton has so much going for it. All it needs is real people in power who control the purse strings. I don't know who they are, but there must be some out there somewhere. The roundabouts look lovely in the summer, and so do the parks. (Except Dallow Road park where you should go if you're looking for a few swigs of Buckfast). If only the money spenders would wake up and smell the vomit. Smarten the place up or lose potential. The first thing business people see when they get off the train is a dump. Why should they do business here? There's obviously something very wrong. Luton is such a lovely place to live because of all it's good points. It's a shame that the bad points are the big ones involving spending large amounts of our money, but there you go.
• Luton has now got a hip 'n' happening (man!)magazine called Luton at Large which is the area's ultimate entertainment guide. Although their website needs DRASTICALLY updating check it out at www.luton-at-large.co.uk or telephone 01582 41 61 71 to subscribe. Other than that you can pick it up for nothing in one of the many pub/clubs in luton (and the surrounding area).
• The town is a great place and with the new injection of investment it has a lot to offer. Although, some of the pub/club owners would do well to remember that students are the only town residents that like a good night out. While they cash in on the student market, they are losing custom from town residents that like nothing better than blowing a months wages on a night out (like me!)
• I wish I'd gone to Uni in Bath but I had a dood time
• claim to fame - the only Woolworths in the country to have an escalator is in Luton
• Luton is great. I've left and come back more times than I care to remember and the same deadbeats are still hanging around the Arndale Centre... ahh sweet if you're having a bad day at work go and take a peek to remind yourself of the alternative.
• dogs shit theres to much in bury park as it is
• Luton is generally thought of as a very urban place, but that's overlooking loads of green spaces. You can walk from Dallow Road to the South coast, crossing very few roads. Stockwood park, Peoples park, Wardown Park, Sundon Hills, Blows Downs, Farley Hill (great for joyriders looking for a place to burn out cars), Marsh Farm, Bramingham woods, Bluebell woods, Foxdell, and only a 20 minute drive from Luton, Ashridge, Stockgrove and Dunstable Downs (low flying gliders).
• that luton holds two fascinating "records" - the longest skid mark in the world (look it up in the guiness book of world records) and that the only roman - era pet monkey was found there - surely it could be a top tourist site on that fact alone?
• Luton Town Hall was built in 1936
• Anyone know where the occasional clubber can obtain her party prescriptions?
• spend a day sightseeing all the weirdo's that hang out in the Arndale, but leave before you start turning into one yourself.
• Hey! Take that nasty bit off about Hockwell Ring! One bad experience or street doesn't reflect the whole area!
• Keep to the town centre and you're more likely to get turned over in nearby smart Harpenden - well, the rich kids have got more in their pockets, haven't they?
• Luton's really not a bad place, yeah it has it's scummy bits but where doesn't? The pubs are getting better all the time. There are more restaurants opening every month, they've even tried their best with the Arndale. If you think it's bad try living in Stevenage. If you think it has no soul or town feeling then try Milton Keynes. Bury Park is great for buying strange but interesting food.
• You are correct, Mick Abrahams (also of Blodwyn Pig) used to drink in the "GreyHound" in Dunstable. Yeah and Luton was tremendous place in the 60s and 70s..and it was safe to walk home in the dark through Wardown Park or even walk down Moor Path in the pitch black
• Luton has a town Hall built in 1920-24. The previous Town Hall was burnt day during a riot on Peace Day 1919.
• Last year, the Bollywood film festival was held there, with many stars coming over from India. They also held the World Carrom championships there. Luton Carnival, on the Bank holiday weekend at the end of May, is the biggest one day carnival in the UK and is organised by the people that do Notting Hill.
• Luton suffers from a poor image!
• Luton is best known for its airport which featured in a number of commercials in the 1980s with Loraine Chase.
• The town has a high immigrant population, mainly from the Kashmir area of Pakistan. Many of the indigenous locals do not like them.
• Paul Young was born in Luton.
• Mick Harford owns a nightclub there.
• Nick Owen supports Luton Town (but Anne Diamond doesn't).
• Luton has a rugby club with some of the best facilities and playing services that can be found in the country. Visit Luton RUFC in Newlands Road and be sure of a warm welcome. All ages catered from minis to veterans.
• Not only does Paul Young come from Luton, but so do many other famous people, such as the main character from childrens tv program of the 80's "Dodger, Bonzo and the rest"
• David Arnold, the guy who did "Play Dead" with Bjork, is from Luton.
• Bob Monkhouse lives just outside of Luton, which leads me to conclude he's been shopping there a couple of times.
• Eamon Andrews lived in a very big house in Luton, in a road where driving instructors take all there first time pupils because it's easy to do three point turn there.
• Luton Hoo, large stately home, was the venue for filming a lot of "Four Weddings and a Funeral". It is also next to a large sewage treatment plant.
• And finally, Stockwood Park Rugby Football Club is a top place and an excellent venue to get drunk.
• Trivia---Luton has the longest foot bridge between two railway stations. "In the world."
• It was with a little sadness and and lot of pleasure I was able to find a web site that dealt exclusively with Luton. I grew up in Luton and attended Lealands high school graduating in 1972, I fled it's green pastures for the u.s.a. in 1978 but miss it a great deal. I could go on about the great Luton of the past but the one thing that comes to mind is that Luton was the first team to be involved in a one hundred thousand pound transfer, when Bruce Rioch was sold to Aston Villa. One more thing that comes to mind, in the early seventies a book was published called "the story of Luton" if anyone should know of a place I could buy a copy I would appreciate hearing (mystic@ccnn.net).
• Brook Street is the mini 'red light district', hence the jokes 'you work at Brook Street' (employment agency) blah blah.
• Luton is the un-crowned Mecca for Martial Arts. Its not very well publised, but in Luton there is a British, European and World Champion in nearly every kind of Martial Art there is, for instance Willie Thomas (Karate); John Harvey and Pat O'Malley (Escrima); Victor Evelyn (Wing Chun kung fu) - Owner of the Warriors Workshop, dealing in Martial Arts Equipment); Dave Short (Judo) and scores of others in other arts.
• Living there for twenty six years.
• Luton was a tremendous place in the late 60's early 70's...what happenned?

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