We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (Andrew
Gabriel) saying something like:


Dunstable
I'm not claiming town centres could carry on just as they did 30
years ago in the age of the interweb, but the destruction in this
case was almost entirely council driven.

Yep, I knew it well, and used to shop there regularly. The free car park
in front of the library/central arena was excellent.