The Olympic Torch left Luton at 6.45am with Lewis Hamilton carrying the Torch. Here are some pictures from the North end of Dunstable as it makes it's way to Milton Keynes and on it's way to Aylesbury. The crowds got there early, and in the centre of Dunstable it was packed. Kevin and I watched it on the live stream till it got to MacDonald's on the A505, then we got our coats and strolled down to the High Street.
The final torch bearer was Penelope Green who has worked for 20 years fund raising for Down's Syndrome. She arrived wearing a pair of Golden Slippers, for her short stint to French's Avenue, before the flame goes by car, on to Milton Keynes and through Bletchley, Buckingham and Aylesbury to Oxford. Well that was early enough for my day off back to bed.
She doesn't look like she's running...mind you, I wouldn't at that time in the morning. The whole olympic torch thing seems to have (literally) passed me by, so it's good to see some photos of the great and good doin' their stuff. Well done for getting up, along with loads of others, by the look of it, at an ungodly hour.
ReplyDeleteIt was 7.15 when we left as we saw it on the life stream first, as we were awake. So we got up and went down to see it. Penelope was
ReplyDeletewalking and she did not have far to go properly less than 200yds.
In picture 6 you can just see in the distance, where the road narrows, that is where the house's end and the convoy would drive to Milton Keynes.