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The Sugar Loaf hotel, with its distinctive doorway which can be recognised in hundreds of old high street photographs, was built in about 1717. It became a fashionable stopping place for horse-drawn carriages travelling along the Watling Street. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert stopped there in 1841 and viewed a display of locally made straw plait. Lord Byron was another visitor and Daniel Defoe made it the venue for a scene in Moll Flanders. The hotel had a famous recipe for serving a local delicacy - Dunstable larks, netted in their thousands on Dunstable Downs. |