[WillowTheWhisp]

I was just wondering today - did HBC ever actually inform us that they proposed to do this or were we just presented with the final decision having been made?

I was musing over the market/bus station area and thought that perhaps it might have been better not to have gone down the Wilkinsons and shops route if they were determined to lose the old outdoor market. If the bus station had been made into a real bus station with the buses parking in side by side like they do in Lancaster in that old market area - perhaps with a cafe and all under cover and sheltered from the elements. Would they all have fit? The market could maybe have been OK then in Peel St if there was a bit more width for it.

It's just a thought. It may not have worked in practical terms.