Ossy Palladium
- Thread starter panther
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another winter is coming so that means its gonna look worse than ever, its a eye sore and needs something doing to it.
Please not another empty shop! If it has been purchased then presumably the new owners must have plans. Nobody would buy it to do nothing with it. A cinema seems unlikely with the Vue just down the road in Accrington.
Rumour is that Ossy Mills had put in an offer to purchase it to turn into a hotel - but that is just speculation. I don't even know if they have bought it.
Someone I know phoned up the estate agents and asked if it was for sale and was told that the owners had taken it off the market - so what's happened is anybody's guess!
Someone I know phoned up the estate agents and asked if it was for sale and was told that the owners had taken it off the market - so what's happened is anybody's guess!
The trouble is that shops where you want them tend not to survive because they have to charge more than the big supermarkets and most people would rather go to Asda for a cheaper one. We had a brilliant baker's shop in Willows Lane but he couldn't compete with cheap mass produced loaves. There used to be a Spar in Carnforth but that closed down in face of the competition from Tesco.
panther said:
Ossy General Store, in the old Chimes restaurant, sells everything from bread to tooth picks, and the guys that own it are are great. They even gave me a box of chocolates at Christmas, which was very gratefully received from these hard working, friendly Muslims, and they pack your bags too, which they don't at the Co-op, which for me, with my fumbling hands, is very much appreciated.
Tealeaf said:
I've heard that it's going to be a themed pound shop, Flat caps, Shawls and high quality twine for tying your whippet to the pubs hitching post, (if you can find a pub thats open!).
Also a Local version of the deli' counter with Lancashire hot Pot, tripe and onion and jellied pigs trotters available 24/7.
Oh yes, and a chemists counter with dolly blue for putting on the kids ringworm, a traditional nit nurse on call with a multi-purpose paraffin wash that can also double up as a cure for constipation. The ailses will be slightly wider than normal so that people with the compulsory 'rickets' can pass each other without any real hinderance.
Apparently, they're going to do a big line in porcelin p*ss pots to put under your bed. This is the new enviromentally friendly method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, because as of next year, your loo will be metered and each flush will be subject to a tax of 50p.
garinda said:
They always try and rip you off though! Twice now I've been, given them a £10 note, and they've given me change for a fiver.. and when you correct them they act like it was just a common mistake! Yeah right!.. more like con artists making a bit of money!
It also looks like an eye sore now.. how they've just placed the Ossy General sign over the Chimes sign.. looks awful! Green sign.. then a smaller red one posted over?! Talk about cheapskates..
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morgan_brotherz said:
Well I've been in daily for two years and have never been short changed. Perhaps you just have one of those faces that make people want to exploit you.
It looks less of an eyesore than the empty restaurant, that was there for eighteen months.
Actually, it wasnt an emply restaurant for eighteen months, it did take a long time to sell, and there's no need to correct me, I know the previous owners mate.
And I have to disagree, Id rather it been an 'empty restaurant' than what it is now, it looks like an eye sore when walking/driving past. Whereas when it was 'Chimes' sign, you couldnt even tell it was closed, it just looked like a nice, decent restaurant.
Im ahshamed at looking at it, one of the first shops coming into Oswaldtwistle, and you see that, its turning into Blackburn Road (Which is slightly improving now actually).. but think of all the visitors to Oswaldtwistle (IE: Ossy Mills Shoppers).. walking into Oswaldtwistle, and seeing that shop, sign over sign, etc.. and the next window is just breeze blocks with no sign at all!.. then you get the Foxhill & Peel Court.. Im ashamed to think what visitors to the town think.
And I have to disagree, Id rather it been an 'empty restaurant' than what it is now, it looks like an eye sore when walking/driving past. Whereas when it was 'Chimes' sign, you couldnt even tell it was closed, it just looked like a nice, decent restaurant.
Im ahshamed at looking at it, one of the first shops coming into Oswaldtwistle, and you see that, its turning into Blackburn Road (Which is slightly improving now actually).. but think of all the visitors to Oswaldtwistle (IE: Ossy Mills Shoppers).. walking into Oswaldtwistle, and seeing that shop, sign over sign, etc.. and the next window is just breeze blocks with no sign at all!.. then you get the Foxhill & Peel Court.. Im ashamed to think what visitors to the town think.
morgan_brotherz said:
It is eighteen months, as my Godfather has the butchers next door, and I was eating in Chimes two days before the chef/owner did a midnight flit to Pleasington. I'm never wrong sunny Jim, well not about this.
You'd rather have an empty retaurant (with terrible, out of character PVC windows the last owner put in,) I'd rather have a local, friendly shop. C'est la vie.