Market Day? - Page 2

garinda · 24-10-2006, 20:56

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

It always seems to be busier on a Thursday whch is flea market day.

It's true.

'Flea market' makes me laugh though. Great marketing.

It's more like the market for stuff that is too bad to go to the jumble sale day.

WillowTheWhisp · 24-10-2006, 20:59

I used to get annoyed with people who criticised Accy for its pound shops and charity shops and flea markets but I really can see where they are coming from now. It's so sad isn't it?

garinda · 24-10-2006, 21:03

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I used to get annoyed with people who criticised Accy for its pound shops and charity shops and flea markets but I really can see where they are coming from now. It's so sad isn't it?

Stop being a whinger.

Deep breath.

Think more positively.

.....

See, all is well.

WillowTheWhisp · 24-10-2006, 21:06

I'm positive we're not being negative.

Mick · 25-10-2006, 07:18

Well if you have any questions for the Sheffield University lads you can have a second chance as while i was talking to them i asked them to the meet on Sat at the Boars Head being Uni lads they said yes we will be there

SPUGGIE J · 25-10-2006, 16:38

I just wish we had the old market still. Ok it was delapidated and before the shutters went up prone to breakins and vandalism but at least it felt like a market. Those uni dudes must have wondered what the hell they let them selves in for so Mick inviting them along to the meet means they will get a proper opinion (I hope) of it from people that do use it.

garinda · 25-10-2006, 17:16

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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J

I just wish we had the old market still. Ok it was delapidated and before the shutters went up prone to breakins and vandalism but at least it felt like a market. Those uni dudes must have wondered what the hell they let them selves in for so Mick inviting them along to the meet means they will get a proper opinion (I hope) of it from people that do use it.

I liked the achitecture of the last ouside market. It very much represented mid-twentieth century modernism, and the replacement of buildings with the same old homogeneous structures from Prince Charles school of toy town architecture, will be regreted by future generations.

WillowTheWhisp · 25-10-2006, 17:27

I was just wondering today - did HBC ever actually inform us that they proposed to do this or were we just presented with the final decision having been made?

I was musing over the market/bus station area and thought that perhaps it might have been better not to have gone down the Wilkinsons and shops route if they were determined to lose the old outdoor market. If the bus station had been made into a real bus station with the buses parking in side by side like they do in Lancaster in that old market area - perhaps with a cafe and all under cover and sheltered from the elements. Would they all have fit? The market could maybe have been OK then in Peel St if there was a bit more width for it.

It's just a thought. It may not have worked in practical terms.

Gayle · 25-10-2006, 17:49

I was always puzzled by the decision to reduce the size of the bus station - never quite understood how they could cut it in half to squeeze the market in.

I'd like to see some sort of proper solution to the bus station even if it means knocking some shops down to fit it in properly. If they ever want to attract people to the town they have to make it accessible and that would be the first point, expand the bus station so that people don't take their lives in their hands when they use it. I'm sure the bus situation is what's put a lot of people off coming in to the town.

WillowTheWhisp · 25-10-2006, 17:54

I wonder if there could be any way of pulling the station and the buses closer together as the former always seems to be a bit out on a limb?

I had to smile at a chap on the market yesterday when we were talking to the students about the bus station and he said "We've never had a bus station. This is a bus street!"