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Originally Posted by katex
Would be interesting to know what you define as good taste Margaret. Brass bands, Pavarotti type singers, Swan Lake chorus lines, Actors spouting Shakespeare ... what ?? Please let us know ... would be interesting to know what the public think up front (as mentioned earlier).
The events are all run by extremely skilled and talented people in their art .. not amateurs. Just a little further up the line in this decade.
For one, who spouts on about buying on line and not visiting our town to spend her money in the town centre .. find your remark a little hypocritical.
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I shop online due to my physical limitations.
I have visited the town centre occasionally lately in early evening, when I can park on Dutton St and have only a short walk to my favourite restaurant. I choose not to apply for a disabled parking badge because I am not capable of meandering from shop to shop to buy what I need.
That does not mean that I do not have civic pride in what goes on in the town centre.
We have a climate which limits what can be used to attract people into town.
I have seen the US airforce band playing a Glen Millar show in a small town square in Italy.
I have seen several bands playing a wide variety of music in St Marks Square Venice.
With our climate the best we can hope for are the Sally Army and some hardy buskers.(free)
Tourist type gimmicks aren't going to work in Accrington.
Reduction of rents and business rates for small traders will attract the small specialist traders that other towns don't have.(and Accrington used to have)