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There's normally a big cheap clothing stall that spills out onto the pavement on that corner. Can't remember what else is supposed to be further down? An electronics stall and a sweet stall? Maybe they're on half-term holidays?
Still a very poor image for a market town!

Nikki

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Possibly something to do with it being Eid.:)

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Could be that the stalls are usually manned by Asians, and today is Eid so they're probably celebrating.

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Lol, at the same time you were posting this I was posting that I counted fourteen empty stalls this afternnon.

What a pair of 'whingers' we are!:D

Perhaps the rose coloured spectacle wearing, do-gooding brigade, do all their shopping once a week at the supermarket!;)

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It crossed our mind too, but some of the stall holders and shop keepers that were open I know to be Muslim.

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rofl - well at least you counted them Rindy! I just estimated. :D

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I think its quite sad to see the market in the state its in, maybe its not worth trading here anymore! I cant remember the last time I bought anything from the market which isn't great, should make more of an effort really.

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We usually do our shopping on a Saturday but last week we went on Friday, there was loads of empty stall then, probably not as many but they should all be occupied on any market day

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Accrington market and shops seem to be getting worse ( is if they ain't bad enough ). I have spoken to shop keepers on Wanner street and some of them are only opening on Thursday, Fridays and Saturday's because the rest of the week is so quite. Also, it cost a staggering 150 quid a week to rent one of the shops in the Victorian Arcade - which could be justified if anybody was autually shopping there. The price to stand on the market stall goes up about 50p a year. Maybe we should start a campaign - the TV lens ice should go for a start.... rant, rant, rant, rave, rave, rave....:swear8:

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I think that the main reason for the empty stalls was because it was Eid....I think that most of the stalls that were not on today will be back by Friday...but even then it is a pitiful excuse for a market.

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Clitheroe's used to be like a toy town market, compared with the once bustling Accy one.

Now it is much bigger, busier, and sadly certainly worth going to over Accrington's.

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It wasn't Eid when I was there last Friday so I wouldn't hold yer breath :)

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It always seems to be busier on a Thursday whch is flea market day. :(

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It's true.

'Flea market' makes me laugh though. Great marketing.

It's more like the market for stuff that is too bad to go to the jumble sale day.

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Stop being a whinger.

Deep breath.

Think more positively.

.....

See, all is well.;):D

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Well if you have any questions for the Sheffield University lads you can have a second chance as while i was talking to them i asked them to the meet on Sat at the Boars Head being Uni lads they said yes we will be there:)

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I just wish we had the old market still. Ok it was delapidated and before the shutters went up prone to breakins and vandalism but at least it felt like a market. Those uni dudes must have wondered what the hell they let them selves in for so Mick inviting them along to the meet means they will get a proper opinion (I hope) of it from people that do use it.

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I liked the achitecture of the last ouside market. It very much represented mid-twentieth century modernism, and the replacement of buildings with the same old homogeneous structures from Prince Charles school of toy town architecture, will be regreted by future generations.

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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. :idunno:

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I was always puzzled by the decision to reduce the size of the bus station - never quite understood how they could cut it in half to squeeze the market in.

I'd like to see some sort of proper solution to the bus station even if it means knocking some shops down to fit it in properly. If they ever want to attract people to the town they have to make it accessible and that would be the first point, expand the bus station so that people don't take their lives in their hands when they use it. I'm sure the bus situation is what's put a lot of people off coming in to the town.

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