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View Poll Results: What should we do with the Arndale Clock?
Save it 61 79.22%
Scrap it 16 20.78%
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Old 27-04-2010, 13:52   #61
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Re: Arndale Clock....Save it or scrap it?

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Do you never go out Margaret. It's a big world out there and you only live once. Try it you'll like it
I am not agrophobic. I do go out sometimes.
I am fortunate to live in a lovely location where I often see other people arrive for their 'picnic days out'. I 'sit out' and stroll in the nearby fields woods and tracks.
I see no purpose to venture into a grubby built up area to meet people I don't know, or want to know

I visit family and have meals out with them sometimes.
I realise that few people enjoy their own company as much as I do.
The joys of being alone are wonderful.
I have been to all the places I want to see and done more than I wanted to do - I have a peaceful life - don't knock it.
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Old 27-04-2010, 14:37   #62
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Are you related to Attilla th Hun Flashy lol

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Old 27-04-2010, 16:54   #63
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I am not knocking your way of life Margaret As a matter of fact I applaud it. I need people around me all the time to enjoy the banter. I get the most joy out of immediate family specially the Grand kids.
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Old 27-04-2010, 21:36   #64
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save it because the little one use,t to love it
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Old 25-04-2011, 07:23   #65
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I never saw it in action but I'd be in favour of bringing it back, it sounds quite unique.
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Old 25-04-2011, 07:46   #66
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I never saw it in action but I'd be in favour of bringing it back, it sounds quite unique.
I remember the clock well from the early 1990s, and people used to wait for it to strike the hour and begin its performance.

Its a simple question of economics. For the owners of the Arndale to bring it back they would have to be satisfied that it would bring enough extra visitors to the centre to justify them charging a premium on the rents to shopkeepers to pay for the running costs.

Its hard to see that happening in the current climate. They have enough problems letting the shops at current rent levels.

However, the Council has budgets to be spent on trying to regenerate the town centre, which have previously been spent on flash mobs and dodgy celebrity cooks.

Maybe it could do worse than spending some of that money on bringing back the clock?
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Old 25-04-2011, 07:51   #67
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I remember the clock well from the early 1990s, and people used to wait for it to strike the hour and begin its performance.

Its a simple question of economics. For the owners of the Arndale to bring it back they would have to be satisfied that it would bring enough extra visitors to the centre to justify them charging a premium on the rents to shopkeepers to pay for the running costs.

Its hard to see that happening in the current climate. They have enough problems letting the shops at current rent levels.

However, the Council has budgets to be spent on trying to regenerate the town centre, which have previously been spent on flash mobs and dodgy celebrity cooks.

Maybe it could do worse than spending some of that money on bringing back the clock?
There you go again, wanting to spend money on something permanent.

What the public seem to want are flash-in-the-pan ideas.

May God strike me down if I be telling a lie.....
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Old 25-04-2011, 15:23   #68
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Urgh scrap it - it's the ugliest thing I have ever seen in my life it used to give me nightmares
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Old 25-04-2011, 17:30   #69
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It had a better face on it than PB.......at least I could stand to look at the clock face!
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Old 28-04-2011, 08:48   #70
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There you go again, wanting to spend money on something permanent.

What the public seem to want are flash-in-the-pan ideas.

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Get down shep
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Old 28-04-2011, 16:45   #71
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There you go again, wanting to spend money on something permanent.

What the public seem to want are flash-in-the-pan ideas.

May God strike me down if I be telling a lie.....
Would rather watch the crowd swimming against the tide up Peel Street
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Old 16-05-2011, 17:17   #72
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Hmmm.... We AccyWebbers should raise money to have the clock installed back again.
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Old 16-05-2011, 17:19   #73
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Save it!!!
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Old 16-05-2011, 17:22   #74
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I remember when it was first seen, my nephew was only a little toddler and he was petrified of it!, i liked it ...so YES save it!
Put it back and git rid of that stuuupid sky stall!
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Old 18-05-2011, 19:39   #75
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I agree panther!!!.
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