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Bury Park is located one mile north west of Luton town centre on the road to Dunstable. Since the mid-1970s a large Asian community have settled. Bury Park has a large commercial area specialising in fruit, vegetables, and Asian clothing.〔Asian Community Network, (Luton Shopping Guide ).〕 There is a significant number of restaurants in the area, particularly serving Halal food. The main road through the area has recently undergone significant updating with new tree planting, improvements to the road layout, paving and street furniture. Kenilworth Road, the home of Luton Town F.C. is also located here. ==History== Bury Park takes its name from Bury Farm, which was situated near to where Kenilworth Road is now.〔Ordnance Survey, (''Bedfordshire 33NW'' ), surveyed circa 1879, published 1888.〕 An estate was erected on the fields of the farm, and the first houses were occupied in 1882. Church school halls were opened in 1895, Bury Park United Reformed Church Church was built in 1903, and Luton Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd opened a general store at the junction of Dunstable Road and Leagrave Road in 1906. The Anglican church of All Saints was opened in 1907 and a new church built in 1923 in Shaftesbury Road. Before moving to the Kenilworth Road ground, Luton Town played their home games on a flat field that became the site of the Odeon cinema. Dunstable Road was lined with Victorian houses, each with a neatly fenced garden, but the character of the road altered with the coming of the trams in 1908; the houses were turned into shops, and their front gardens became paved forecourts. By 1926, the shops included a "High-Class Pastry Cook and Confectioner" at 273 Dunstable Road.〔K. Cooper, ''Luton Scene Again'', Phillimore, 1990, ISBN 0-85033-775-5, captions to plates 43 to 46 and 58.〕 Traffic has long been a problem in the area. In 1926, complaints were made that horses and carts were causing obstructions by stopping at a water trough at the junction of Dunstable Road and Leagrave Road. In the following years the junction was covered by constables on point duty.〔T. J. Madigan, ''The Men Who Wore Straw Hats: Policing Luton 1840–1974'', Book Castle, 1993, ISBN 1-871199-81-6 (h/b), ISBN 1-871199-11-5 (p/b), page 46.〕 Edgar Barber established an aeroplane propeller factory during World War I at 116 Bury Park Road. This was converted into a cinema called the Empire, which opened in 1921 and which closed in 1938 when the new Odeon opened on Dunstable Road. The Odeon with 1958 seats was designed by Keith P. Roberts, and is now a listed building.〔E. Grabham, ''From Grand to Grove: Entertaining South Bedfordshire'', Book Castle, 2007, ISBN 978-1-903747-83-4, pages 76, 139 and 146.〕 During World War II the old Empire was requisitioned for "government purposes". After the war it was used as a synagogue, and then later as an Islamic centre. The Odeon was used for music concerts as well as for showing films; The Beatles played there in 1963. It eventually closed in 1983 and re-opened as a Top Rank Bingo Club. After local objections when its name changed to Mecca Bingo, it finally closed in 1999 and became a church.〔E. Grabham, ''op. cit.'', pages 80, 159, 207, 236 and 254.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bury Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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