[Exile on Spencer St]

Yesterday Mrs. Exile and I went to Blackpool and happened to find the recently ‘refurbished’ Abingdon Street market, now turned (mainly) into a “food court”.
It was a bright, dry sunny day, in the centre of Blackpool and at lunch time.
This ‘market’ is smaller than Accrington’s Market Hall and had ten or so booths around the edges offering various ‘ethnic’ fast food and a long ‘cocktail’ type bar taking up one side, but probably only two or three food outlets seemed to have anyone working in them. The middle of the space was filled with wooden picnic tables and hard benches. All the benches were empty except where two young mother sat, both feeding their babies with bottles which I doubt came from any of the outlets.
If this is the kind of enterprise the Council intend for the Market Hall they better start working out what they’ll replace it with once it fails.