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marks and spencer was here years before the arndale center was built , i used to go shopping there when i was a kid with my mum you can still see the old rear exits of marks and spencer if you look behind the photo shop as you go into the arndale

farmfoods used to be the cloths section of woolworths if anyone remembers that

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Yes I remember that chav...........am I right in thinking it was woolworths that you could walk right through at one point????

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yes you could walk into woolworths on broadway and come out on union street

woolworths was like an L shape if you like

marks and spencers you could enter on broad way and exit with your shopping wherethe arndale main entrance is with burtons

there is no way the arndal can accomodate as many cars as there was able to be accomodated befor it was built

there were 2 massive carparks and also where the tax office is used to be a carpark as well

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Yes thats right I remember now...................I vagly remember cars being on broadway........there was pelican crossings wasn't there??

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yep

in my opinion blocking off broadway did more damage to buisness than good

what the council fail to remember is that we are a town and not a city so all these city type things like arndale centers arnt needed

ime betting somone got a big cash backhander for allowing it to be built in accy

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MMMMM everything HBC did was a bad idea for Accrington though!!!!!!!!:rolleyes:

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what i cant understand is why the council keep letting new premmisis be built as there is a struggle to fill the ones we already have

the outdoor market is a joke and an eysore and one of the most smelly parts of accy ever

the fish market was fine where it was all out of the way and stinking its own little place out


i realy do think that some councilor is letting anyone build where and what the hell they want for a backhander

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I can't agree more chav.........................it's a joke now, then they wonder why they cant get visitors:rolleyes:

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the fish market was always seperate in my recollection,and the market was better for that one simple thing.

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I don't think I have been in the new market so I can't comment.
Maybe I will have to visit just to see how stinky it is.

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What I originally posted was:

I think the older members of AccyWeb will have realised what I was talking about. That block with Woolworths and M&S when both stores were L-shaped, one leading into Union St and the other coming out opposite the Odeon cinema, was and is "Arndale House" ie the very first stage of Arndale as I said, when the sunken gardens were lost. We haven't always had a Marks & Spencers.

We did previously have a Woolworths which just relocated into the Arndale building but M&S was brand new back then and considered quite a coup for the town.

As far as the car park is concerned it was a condition of building on the old car park (behind the original bit of Arndale) that an equal number of parking spaces would be provided to make up for those being built upon and that they would continue to remain free of charge.

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sure thats correct willow.woolys was were mcdonalds used to be,facing the market front,with the sunken toilets to the side on dutton st,marks came later.