Market Hall Refurbishment

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Nope, just a few people sat round on the benches, staring into space...and there's plenty of it to stare into!

They are some of the community artists employed by the borough!

They were bussed in from Hebden Bridge. No expense spared.

They're the 'Not So Flash Mob People of Age Community Sitters & Starers Troupe'.

Philistine!

[Bernard Dawson]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Are they? Just look like ordinary, everyday bogs to me (very clean and well-maintained I must say).

They might be ordinary Bogs to you and me. But I been told that there state of the art ordinary looking Bogs. And there kept opened as well.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson

Those toilets are state of the art apparently.Whatever that means.

Perhaps that description relates to when compared to the standard of community art in Hyndburn.

Which makes them shhhhhh...super.

[Less]

IF, the estimate for footfall is accurate at 3,000 & IF, the cost of hiring these so called celebs is accurate:-

Row after council spends £9,000 on celebrity pair | Accrington Observer - menmedia.co.uk

Then we only paid £3.00 per head to get these people to come and nosey, it must be a bargain.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Less

IF, the estimate for footfall is accurate at 3,000 & IF, the cost of hiring these so called celebs is accurate:-

Row after council spends £9,000 on celebrity pair | Accrington Observer - menmedia.co.uk

Then we only paid £3.00 per head to get these people to come and nosey, it must be a bargain.

Putting it that way, it was worth that for the little chap who was inside K9 alone.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by garinda

No community artists, knocking about in the 'liberated empty terrain' in the Market Hall, to comment on?

I don't get the concept 'liberated empty terrain'....what a terrible phrase.
It never used to be empty...it had market stalls in it, commercial enterprise happened.
Why did the powers that be think it needed to be liberated...and for what?
So that half a dozen benches could be placed to...... allow oldies to sit and stare!
That doesn't bring in any revenue.....you don't have to buy something to park your bum on a bench.
Priceless!!!

[Wynonie Harris]

Originally Posted by garinda

They are some of the community artists employed by the borough!

They were bussed in from Hebden Bridge. No expense spared.

They're the 'Not So Flash Mob People of Age Community Sitters & Starers Troupe'.

Philistine!

Of course! Staring has long been a highly valued artistic concept. Consider the poem by W.H. Davies:

"What, is this life, if full of care,
we have no time to stand and stare."

I wonder how much the grant is?

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I don't get the concept 'liberated empty terrain'....what a terrible phrase.
It never used to be empty...it had market stalls in it, commercial enterprise happened.
Why did the powers that be think it needed to be liberated...and for what?
So that half a dozen benches could be placed to...... allow oldies to sit and stare!
That doesn't bring in any revenue.....you don't have to buy something to park your bum on a bench.
Priceless!!!

Quite agree.

The actual renovations are top notch.

However the decision taken, to take away space for stalls, which prior to the work supported thriving businesses, in order to 'liberate terrain', was idiotic.

If something isn't broke, which it hadn't been for 150 years, don't fix it.

[Less]

Originally Posted by garinda

Putting it that way, it was worth that for the little chap who was inside K9 alone.

I somehow suspect that when revealed the 3000 extra people won't just have been for those two celebs but will also include the happy go lucky peenist & the do it yourself willie warming sculptist and every other attraction connected to this fiasco,

But then, it's only speculation on my part.

Always remember the old adage you have to speculate to estimate.

(I think that's how it goes, I suppose I could google...).

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

I wonder how much the grant is?

Is there no end to your philistinism?

What price can you put on the value of community art?

It's priceless.

Apparently.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Less

IF, the estimate for footfall is accurate at 3,000 & IF, the cost of hiring these so called celebs is accurate:-

Row after council spends £9,000 on celebrity pair | Accrington Observer - menmedia.co.uk

Then we only paid £3.00 per head to get these people to come and nosey, it must be a bargain.

If only Stanley could attract 3000 every home match, they could even do a bit of shopping in the club shop

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Less

happy go lucky peenist

Not just happy go lucky, he was 'a very smiley upbeat' peenist.

Which has got to have some bearing in pulling the hordes.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

Is there no end to your philistinism?

What price can you put on the value of community art?

It's priceless.

Apparently.

Well your the Artiste amongst use how would us mere mortals know

[Less]

Originally Posted by jaysay

If only Stanley could attract 3000 every home match, they could even do a bit of shopping in the club shop

I believe they manage to put 11 players on the field when they do play, any less would be as futile as, well as opening a Market Hall without cramming the whole area with traders.

[flashy]

Originally Posted by garinda

Putting it that way, it was worth that for the little chap who was inside K9 alone.

wrong film love, K9 was in Dr Who, the little chap was in Star Wars and wasn't a dog