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Chapel Langley is an inner city district of Luton, just south west of the town centre, in Bedfordshire, England.It is roughly bounded by Regent Street and Adelaide Street to the north, Wilsden Avenue and Bolingbroke Road to the south, Milton Road, Napier Road, and Grove Road to the west, and Castle Street and London Road to the east.
Luton & District was bought in 1994 by British Bus, [18] which, in turn, was purchased by the Cowie Group on 1 August 1996 and rebranded as Arriva the Shires in 1998. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Milton Keynes Citybus was acquired by Cambus (a privatised part of Eastern Counties), which was, itself, sold to Stagecoach in 1996.
The collection was put together by George Mossman [1] who was born in Luton in 1908. Shortly after the First World War, Mossman left school and started work for a local butcher, Panters, in Park Street, as a delivery driver. This was the beginning of Mossman's lifelong interest in horse-drawn transport.
The LU postcode area, also known as the Luton postcode area, [2] is a group of seven postcode districts in England, within three post towns. These cover south Bedfordshire (including Luton , Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard ), plus small parts of north Hertfordshire and east Buckinghamshire .
Aylesbury Borough Council was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, merging with neighbouring districts to become Aylesbury Vale district on 1 April 1974. No successor parish was established for the town and it was therefore directly administered by Aylesbury Vale District Council. The civil parish of Aylesbury was re-established in ...
In the early 1970s the station was demolished and the Regent Street site used as a temporary home for Barnsley's famous Open-Air markets (Remember the motto:"Barnsley for Bargains") until a new market complex was completed. The Regent Street site is now a car park. The Old Court House still stands, in use as a pub/restaurant.
Buckingham Park is a suburban residential neighbourhood contiguous with the north-west edge of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. It is currently the location of major housing developments on two sites known originally as Weedon Hill [ 2 ] and Berryfields. [ 3 ]
Luton's inner ring road passes through the southern edge of High Town from New Bedford Road to Crawley Green Road. [133] The section from Old Bedford Road eastwards, part of which runs under Luton railway station's multi-storey car park opened in August 2014, [134] and finally completed the circular route 40 years after the first part was built ...