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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Yes...Accrington, the town, is very close to death....but so are many northern industrial towns.
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The reasons for that are many . The rise of the internet shopping phenomenon being one. I can click on something and have it delivered to my home as quick as the following day. The price and the choice will be better than local shops. Maplins is a recent casualty of this.
There is also the out of town shopping areas, where people can go and park and walk freely around looking at the various stores,, all in one place.
Don't get me wrong it saddens me greatly to see Accrington as it is today, as Margaret said it isn't just our town that is dying.
We will all have our ideas about where things went wrong, where we lost the sense of community that a thriving town brings. For me it was the demolition of the 60's open market which was thriving every Saturday when I used to shop there. Also when Woolworths went. They had so much of my pocket money you wouldn't believe it.
Just my thoughts
Mark