Barnes' Furniture Shop.
 

Has anyone any updated info on what use this site is going to be put to?
I've noticed it is begining to look a little run down and is attracting the neer-do-wells of the area.

Suggestions for a use anyone?

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i'm pretty sure its going to b a bar

i remmeber reading it in the paper that they had been a uk nationwide company who had bought the site

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Another bar,just what we need! Witherspoons I expect.

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Do you mean the shop on Blackburn Rd? thats being converted to a bar

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No K.S.H,I meant the one in the Church St.area that has been empty since April,I believe that behind the internal wall fittings the old cinema fixtures are still to be seen.
It's a queer shaped building so I don't see that it could easily be converted to a bar.Though you never know.

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That post was meant for Mani, thought he might have been getting mixed up with the shop on Blackburn Rd

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I thought it was a real shame that Barnes closed, it was a good furniture shop, hopefully it wont become a pound or a charity shop we have too many of them already.

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aaaaaaaaaah

my bad

i saw furniture store and i thought the one on blackburn road

though i think that one behind new era wud make a good bar too

its in a good area

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Would be great if Argos moved to there,more space and a car park.I'm sick of all the ignorant people parked illegally outside Argos.Many a time driving a 38ft bus I couldn't pull out of Bank St with people sat in their cars refusing to move or actually doing their shopping in Argos.

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Reviving an old thread! Only just heard the old cinema site, remembered by most Accrington folk when it was BARNES FURNITURE STORE, is to become a church-owned community cafe and furniture store????????
er ..... Wow?

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From what I hear the funding is totally inadequate for the mammoth task required to internally clear the site.
At the moment I doubt if it would get Public Liability Insurance.No gas ,no water(other than via the roof)and no electricity supply.
Not exactly walk in condition!

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Before it became Barnes's furniture, there used to be an 8 ft long stone plinth set low in the wall, facing the end of Grange Lane, which had Accrington Higher Bridge carved in it. It dated back to the days when Accrington was two separate townships. There was another one at Bull Bridge which had Accrington Lower Bridge carved on it.
Retlaw.

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Really?, But it looks very run-down;).