Well here we go, to compliment my earlier reports on the towns of Huntingdon and St Neots I give you the last of the 3 dumps in the ‘Chavtown Triangle’……..Bedford – and believe me, i’ve saved the worst ’till last…
Let’s start with the town centre and that long time favourite haunt of the local chav – The Harpur Centre.
The Harpur Centre is Bedfords main covered shopping centre, in fact, so important is it to the well being of the town that it sports not only the cheapest looking linen shop on the planet but also Bedford’s premier branch of Argos with the biggest Elizabeth Duke counter you could ever wish to see. It is here where an eager chav-spotter can witness that symbolic guesture of a Chav couples love – the giving and recieving of some bling. Currently popular here are large gold bracelets that closely resemble gold-painted doughunts, how many can you spot on each arm?
One…two….three…..
Should a chav become tired carrying all this weight around with them they can take a break and linger around the centrepiece of the Harpur, ‘The Spiral’. This is nothing more than a spiral walkway leading down to the car park but is a popular hangout for the resting chav, no doubt partly due to the fact that there is a stall nearby where they can stock up on Jellybeans…
Moving on out of the Harpur Centre, past the Flowerpot chavs who seem permanantly fixed to the walls surrounding the flowerbeds and across Harpur Square one will soon arrive at Wilkinsons, for every chavs shopping needs, followed by a McDonalds and a large Amusement arcade which , simply by turning on the neon lights, can have chavs flapping outside the windows like moths in an instant.
Move on to the edge of Bedford and the large, grey shadow of the Interchange Retail Park looms against the backdrop of Stewartby brickworks. The Interchange seems to have been designed with the chav solely in mind as they took the time to provide another McDonalds and a giant Matalan in their plans. Here one can also see the heights to which a chavs career prospects can rise to in Bedford, they can become part of the vast army of ‘car cleaners’ who loiter at one end of the car park ready to scrub your car with a grit impregnated sponge for as much money as they can coax out of you.
Anyway, should you be searching for a chav in it’s natural habitat then you can do no better than visit the areas of Putnoe and Queens Park (which has far more in common with its London counterpart than just it’s name), this is of course assuming you can get down the narrow, Nova-lined and chavling-packed roads in anything wider than a pushbike, and even then it’ll probably get it’s tyres pilfered and turned into a spoiler for a D-reg VW Golf…
Anyway, I hope that my reports on Huntingdon, St Neots and now Bedford have convinced you that you will never want to come here optionally, unless of course you are a very brave Chav-spotter…
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Here Here Sophie!
I have lived in Bedford since 1993, and have never read such CRAP about Chavs in all my life! I have never seen groups hanging about as the Original poster suggests, and I grew up here!
And as for the comments about McDonalds, Matalan, Argos, Wilkinsons etc, I must be mistaken, I didnt realise Bedford was exclusive in having these stores…………thought these were NATIONWIDE……….
D*ckhead……………
Sadly it is all too true. Bedford was destroyed in the late 1950′s and early 1960′s as a result of incompetence by the planning department and the greed of a number of local business men. Sadly it never has nor probably every will recover from the devastation.
Many examples of the incompetence still exist or don’t exist. One of the worst was pulling down the only house still remaining in which John Buyan had lived for road widening purposes and then the road was not widened.
Bedford is one of the few towns that still lacks a complete by-pass. This was opposed by local business men back in the 1960’s for fear that if the town were to be by-passed, they would lose trade from their shops. As it happens traffic still roars down the High Street which remains a major trunk road devastating the environment along with any pleasure that might otherwise be had and adversely affect the trade of those shops which remain open.
Seeing as you do not LIVE in Bedford i really dont see how you can critisize the place? Stars such as James Corden & Paula Radcliffe were bought up here and lived here for many years, theyve gone further than you havent they? Was there any riots in Bedfords? NO. Before you can judge the place and stereotype the whole younger generation as ‘chavs’ maybe take a step back and get off your high horse and realise how much of a sad c**t you are doing this in your spare time
us bedfordians dont even want to be associated with scum like you.
Clearly you have never visited Queens Park in London, otherwise you would not compare it with Queens Park in Bedford. The London Queens Park is an extremely affluent area, with average house prices running to seven figures. It is home to many stars of music, stage and film, and is regarded as a particularly desirable place to live.
But don’t let a lack of research get in the way of a good metaphor eh?
i think you are a rude and totally ignorant person. Having lived in Queens Park for over ten years i have found nothing but a total community spirit here, you really should get your facts right before you start spreading such shite around,
I work out 2 days/week for 30 to 40 minutes. ,
Strange to see Bedford up here. Each time we go up there it seems that they have more Aston Martins, RRs and Bentleys then the last time. I agree with queens Park tho, it should be cleansed and sterilised.
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