Peacocks Shops

What great news Edinburgh Wool Mill, have bought Peacocks clothing store.  200 branches will close but fortunately for Dunstable ours will remain open.  We have so few shops, and apart from the outlets in supermarkets, we have few independent clothes shops that bring us a wide range of clothes.  Sun European Partners bought Bon Marche also part of Peacocks last month so as a small town, which has over the past few years been decimated with shop closures both of these bring a welcome sigh of relief.  We have had a few shops open up including a bike shop, a cake shop, a new age shop called Gentle Ways  that sells fairies, and candles, and will be doing Reiki and aromatherapy upstairs, a cafe and a craft shop. Unfortunately for those of us that like art and craft materials, This shop is a creative shop where you buy a pot and paint it, good for the kids, they also do workshops for cake decorating and cupcakes.  All lovely shops and very welcome but we do desperately need some old favourites.  I suppose until Dunstable Town Council start thinking of Dunstable, and doing something about the traffic, the big names are not going to come.  I go to Leighton Buzzard for Habadashery, and art and craft needs, but I do try to shop local, but it isn't easy.

Peacocks