Barnes' Furniture Shop.

Lampman · 09-10-2005, 14:34

Has anyone any updated info on what use this site is going to be put to?
I've noticed it is begining to look a little run down and is attracting the neer-do-wells of the area.

Suggestions for a use anyone?

mani · 09-10-2005, 16:19

i'm pretty sure its going to b a bar

i remmeber reading it in the paper that they had been a uk nationwide company who had bought the site

Lampman · 09-10-2005, 16:36

Another bar,just what we need! Witherspoons I expect.

K.S.H · 09-10-2005, 16:42

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Originally Posted by mani

i'm pretty sure its going to b a bar

i remmeber reading it in the paper that they had been a uk nationwide company who had bought the site

Do you mean the shop on Blackburn Rd? thats being converted to a bar

Lampman · 09-10-2005, 16:51

No K.S.H,I meant the one in the Church St.area that has been empty since April,I believe that behind the internal wall fittings the old cinema fixtures are still to be seen.
It's a queer shaped building so I don't see that it could easily be converted to a bar.Though you never know.

K.S.H · 09-10-2005, 16:56

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Originally Posted by Lampman

No K.S.H,I meant the one in the Church St.area that has been empty since April,I believe that behind the internal wall fittings the old cinema fixtures are still to be seen.
It's a queer shaped building so I don't see that it could easily be converted to a bar.Though you never know.

That post was meant for Mani, thought he might have been getting mixed up with the shop on Blackburn Rd

park381 · 09-10-2005, 17:56

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Originally Posted by Lampman

Has anyone any updated info on what use this site is going to be put to?
I've noticed it is begining to look a little run down and is attracting the neer-do-wells of the area.

Suggestions for a use anyone?

Not another £ shop

grego · 09-10-2005, 18:33

I thought it was a real shame that Barnes closed, it was a good furniture shop, hopefully it wont become a pound or a charity shop we have too many of them already.

park381 · 09-10-2005, 18:41

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Originally Posted by grego

I thought it was a real shame that Barnes closed, it was a good furniture shop, hopefully it wont become a pound or a charity shop we have too many of them already.

Lol, but if it's been empty since April..................No one is interested in it, unless they are all waiting for a rock bottom price. Then again it's away from the "centre"

mani · 10-10-2005, 15:52

aaaaaaaaaah

my bad

i saw furniture store and i thought the one on blackburn road

though i think that one behind new era wud make a good bar too

its in a good area

PILKYBUSDRIVER · 10-10-2005, 21:39

Would be great if Argos moved to there,more space and a car park.I'm sick of all the ignorant people parked illegally outside Argos.Many a time driving a 38ft bus I couldn't pull out of Bank St with people sat in their cars refusing to move or actually doing their shopping in Argos.

Atarah · 04-06-2011, 12:25

Reviving an old thread! Only just heard the old cinema site, remembered by most Accrington folk when it was BARNES FURNITURE STORE, is to become a church-owned community cafe and furniture store????????
er ..... Wow?

Lampman · 04-06-2011, 13:33

From what I hear the funding is totally inadequate for the mammoth task required to internally clear the site.
At the moment I doubt if it would get Public Liability Insurance.No gas ,no water(other than via the roof)and no electricity supply.
Not exactly walk in condition!

Retlaw · 04-06-2011, 14:27

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Originally Posted by Atarah

Reviving an old thread! Only just heard the old cinema site, remembered by most Accrington folk when it was BARNES FURNITURE STORE, is to become a church-owned community cafe and furniture store????????
er ..... Wow?

Before it became Barnes's furniture, there used to be an 8 ft long stone plinth set low in the wall, facing the end of Grange Lane, which had Accrington Higher Bridge carved in it. It dated back to the days when Accrington was two separate townships. There was another one at Bull Bridge which had Accrington Lower Bridge carved on it.
Retlaw.

Bee · 05-06-2011, 08:45

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Originally Posted by Atarah

Reviving an old thread! Only just heard the old cinema site, remembered by most Accrington folk when it was BARNES FURNITURE STORE, is to become a church-owned community cafe and furniture store????????
er ..... Wow?

Really?, But it looks very run-down

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