26-09-2005, 13:14
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Abbey Grange?
What's all this about then?
A couple of strangers in town asked me where the "Abbey Grange Shopping Centre" was as they hadn't been able to find it. 
I asked if they meant the Arndale Centre (we were on Broadway) but they said no, they'd been in those few shops and they'd followed the sign posts up Infant Street but not been able to find "the other shopping centre".
Curiouser and curiouser I wondered if they meant that bit where Netto is on Eastgate and told them that it's only a couple of shops and a supermarket.
I really couldn't work out what they were looking for as they kept repeating "The Abbey Grange Shopping Centre" and I kept telling them we'd only got one shopping centre which was the Arndale.
It wasn't until I was standing in Peel Sreet waiting for a Fern Gore bus that my eye alighted upon the signpost of many wonders outside Mannings and it does indeed have one arm pointing up Infant Street with the legend ""Abbey Grange Shopping" Now if it had said "Abbey Street shops" it might make more sense.
I wonder how many more unsuspecting visitors to the town have gone off on a wild goose chase looking for a non-existent shopping centre?
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