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Old 22-05-2013, 08:52   #599
Wynonie Harris
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Re: Town Centre Changes

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Originally Posted by cashman View Post
Thats me point we go quite a few different places n also know Wynonies been around different places to me, we both come to same conclusion i reckon.
I know I keep banging on about this, but quite often I go into Leigh for my daily brew and a spot of shopping with Mrs H. It's a similar-sized post-industrial town and like Accy, is sandwiched between two bigger towns - Wigan and Bolton. It has none of the fantastic Victorian architecture that we have or attractive little shopping streets like Warner Street. Despite that, it's always far, far busier than Accy. The market hall is a featureless concrete shed but it's usually packed because it's full of stalls selling things that folk want to buy - no empty spaces for "performance art" here! The shopping centre next door ("Spinningate") is similarly thriving with just one empty shop at the moment.

Leigh isn't just an isolated example either; there are many more similar-sized towns - Chorley's another one - that are all far busier than Accy.

Incidentally, Leigh bus station is smack dab in the middle of the town centre, right next to the market hall and shopping centre. Common sense really isn't it?
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