Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Noticed that.

Pays to have up to the minute information in this age of technology.

Perhaps they'll post an addendum on Hyndburn Life.

:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

wouldn't expect nout different Dave from a converted dingle:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Surprised nobody has commented that the three shrubs have gone from the hall floor and have been relocated :)

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

well they aint gone in the lift, not enough room.:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

They did take a trip in the lift, it might have been one at a time tho :D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

noticed that last week .. but have been housebound this week .. so havent been in town ... they moved again?

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Yes, they have moved

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

By the way .. according to this weeks accy observer ... the result .... ie accy being the best indoor market ... was decided by an online public poll

who voted for it ...

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

they have happen put em in one of the new traders shops upstairs, as shes quitting n moving.:D:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Cracking guess but wrong cashy. They have now become the new screen between the balcony cafe and the ladies toilets entrance. They look quite pretty in that location too :rolleyes:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I did reckon on that mate, to enhance the "Masters" lads cafe no doubt.:D:rolleyes:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

They should cut them down.

Trees axed to stop strangers meeting for sex (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Perfect cover for dirty business.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Facebook
======

'Accrington New Market Hall' page - 66 people like this.
(Started July, 2010.)

'Coffee Beanz' page - 70 friends.
(Started June, 2010.)

'Campaign Against Hyndburn Council Closing Peel St Toilets' page - 168 members.
(Started a little over 24 hours ago.)

Vox populi.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Those were my thoughts too!;)

Best Regards - Taggy

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

BRITCLIFFE...thousands of times

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Maybe better just outside the lift, there is a potential for cost cutting, as they maybe watered quite often saving the council from doing it:rolleyes::rolleyes::D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Na Shaz, he deligates:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

'The result was decided by an online public poll.'

Setting out its stall: Accrington named as UK's best indoor market - Accrington Observer

My goodness, those little poodles are well trained.

Using their little paws, on a keyboard.

:rolleyes:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Which and where was this online poll G. I'm sure that with all that's gone on if there had have been this poll at least one member on here would have clocked it and would have let us all know:confused::confused:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Bet someone at Scaitcliffe House knew where this public poll was, and how to access it..

:rolleyes:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

So nearly 70 markets entered the competition at £763 a go? That's comfortably £50,000 for a glass trophy and an awards ceremony plus a few civil servants. Marvellous, another reason to feel good about the way this country spends our money.

Perhaps Bury Council had the sense not to enter and just concentrated on getting on with it.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Perhaps Bury already know they have a good market, because of the thousands of people who travel there to spend their dosh.

They mightn't be as needy for a certificate, and a pat on the head.

Especially when you have to pay hundreds of pounds to receive that pat.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Can't disagree with that Ken, personally I never could stand self congrats back slapping do's mi sen, if you good at what you do you don't have to enter a competitive, people tell you with their feet how good you are, end off:rolleyes:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Well I went here:-

http://www.nabma.com/en/news/news-ar...2011-01-28.php


Then I went to contact us and asked the following:-

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I did wonder why we had no awards :D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

When I saw the web sight Less I thought it was a dodgy Kenyon Website:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Within an hour of contacting I got this reply:-

So we can all look forward to voting next December, No, maybe not, after all, we have the May elections to get through first, Hyndburn might not be a member of nabma by then.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Oh surely not Less, what will we ever do if we are no longer members;):rolleyes:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

If they did, and ensured that sufficient votes were cast to make Accrington the Best Indoor Market Hall in the UK, then good luck to them. Those were the rules set by BRMBA (or whatever they are called) so they can't complain if someone bends the rules to their own advantage.

If that is what happened (allegedly), it reminds me a bit of Pakistani cricketers bowling no balls on the third ball of the seventeenth over!

Allegedly.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

'If' this was the case, I wouldn't be wishing them good luck, like you.

I'd label it an utter waste of time.

It makes the award worthless.

I certainly wouldn't be bragging about it, soliciting for compliments, about a now meaningless trinket.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

One that can be worn on public occasions with other meaningless trinkets?

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

In your eyes, maybe, and in the eyes of us right thinking people. But there must be some poor deluded souls who were impressed by the award, and will cast their vote accordingly in May for those who brought the meaningless trink..., I mean the Prestigious Trophy, to Accrington.

So in that sense, it has scored a success.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I've no idea, never having been vain glorious myself.

I've always had enough self-confidence that meant I never felt the need to decorate myself with medals I'd awarded myself.

I always though Idi Amin, Gadaffi etc. looked a bit pathetic.

;)

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Yes, there are always a few deluded suckers.

You only have to read the Emperor's New Clothes, to realise that.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Ya mean the story of the Emperor's New Cloths isn't true G:eek::eek::eek:well I'm shocked and stunned and not a little amazed:rolleyes::D Maybe the yellow festooned medal will end up the same shortly;)

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Sadly it was a bare faced lie, but you are better than the Emporer, you can cope with the naked truth.
:)

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I had to work today to finish an order. This of course meant for a call of nature I had to use the facilites 100 yards away :rolleyes:

There is no way in this world you can convince me that there is any justification opening the Market Hall on a Sunday. The heating was on full blast ( it was usually programmed to go off Saturday night until Monday morning ), and there were 2 members of the public in there using the cafe. This was at 12.30pm, peak time for lunch.

Does anyone know of any other Market Hall open on a Sunday ?

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

There is this one:-
http://avatarquechua.com/wp-content/...ian-Market.jpg

Notice the similarity? More traders than customers.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

......and a similar looking stone floor.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

And very similar people manning the stalls or floors:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Just been informed that Cabinet is rather lively this morning, with my personal views on the Market Hall publicly suggested for relocation up where the stallholders don't trade. Preparation H on standby.....

Fortunately, I'd already had a rather more productive meeting regarding the market's future earlier in the morning with someone who is actively seeking advice and ideas on how to improve matters and it wasn't one of the councillors.

Right back up yours, my dear.

It's people like you using this type of terminology that are giving kenweb a bad name!
;-)

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I know Len's has a wide selection of cooked meats, but I've never seen boiled arse.

Perhaps you have to order it.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Given that most councils are cost cutting would it not be better for NAMBA to do away with one of it's judgng processes and reduce the subscriptions.

Why did they have an online public poll and a panel of judges :confused:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

If you put enough money in...

YouTube - Hot Chocolate - Every 1's a winner 1978

;)

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

There's a glowing letter about the Market Hall winning NABMA's dial-a-prize competition, in this week's Observer.

Praise is also heaped on Cllr. Haworth.

Great thing, t'internet.

Not that this means there's any bias, but it turns out the letter writer numbers one Peter Britcliffe, and several members of the lauded Cllr. Haworth's family, amongst her Facebook buddies.

Probably just a coincidence.

:rolleyes:

:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Your such a cynic you G.:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

No.

Just a people person.

Finding peoples' motivations interesting.

;)

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

You should have been a trickcyclist rather than a designer G:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

surprised no one has commented on this ... more "Art" coming to the Market Hall

£25,000 project to re-ignite pride in three East Lancashire towns (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I had seen it, and understood that the funding comes from the Lotto, and not the tax payer.

In which case I have no problem with it.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Well, no...but it does rather get away from the fact that a market hall is a place where trade is supposed to take place......not Art exhibitions.

Soon, it will be a great empty space that will be entirely devoted to Art...or what passes for it.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Glad you qualified that Margaret:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

No you'll be able to get a brew as well Margaret.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I suppose buying a brew counts as 'trade'...loosely.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

That I totally agree with.

For well over a century, it's served the purpose for which it was designed, very well. That being to house commercial enterprises, a 'market'.

The space has now been liberated, hadn't you heard?

Liberating Empty Terrain launches in Hyndburn | Creativity Works

Bye-bye a place where people can make an honest living, by flogging stuff others are prepared to part with hard earned dosh for, and hello to state funded egg cosies.

Don't get me started...

:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

We had a meeting yesterday regarding the Royal Wedding celebrations for Hyndburn and the Market Hall came up.

The plans are quite impressive to be fair but Cllr Malcolm Pritchard pointed out the one vital thing missing in the town centre was somewhere to actually watch the event on television. He put forward the Town Hall but this was ruled out on grounds of cost so I suggested the Market Hall as it is going to be open anyway, something which surprisingly was not rejected out of hand.

I also suggested that since the outdoor market is going to be pushed during the celebrations it would be as well to fill up the stalls inside and show it off to the full whilst the town centre is busy. They seemed quite concerned that if too many stalls were full it wouldn't leave room for the Morris dancers or the big screen. Re-opening Peel Street toilets was also mentioned by Cllr Pritchard but this is only 'being considered' at the moment as the Market Hall will be open.

I give up.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Excitement?

Interest?

I bet much more pressing is complete apathy, regarding this wedding. Rather than a lack of venue, to watch Wills take her up the aisle.

:rolleyes:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Please don't do that Ken....the town really needs someone with a sense of purpose.......and the interests of the common man at heart.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I really can't see folk turning out to the Market hall to watch the Wedding.......why would you do that when you could be at home in a comfy chair with a brew( a good one) and a choccy biscuit in your mitt??

In my mind, this public junketing for the wedding is misplaced when we are in such dire financial straits.....and it smacks of a 'we're doing it better than you attitude'........or am I on my own in these cynical thoughts?

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I'm on this team :)

Complete waste of taxpayers money

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Hooray, that makes three of us against it all then.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I'm not entirely against it and there's a good effort being made to celebrate a one-off event which I hope the local shopkeepers and publicans will capitalise on but this has been a purely Conservative drive and all opposition councillors have been kept out of the loop completely until yesterday. It is far too late to stop what they have put in motion and costings for much of the festivities were remarkably scant so our only option now is to hope for the borough's sake that it isn't a damp squib.

The whole thing does have an underlying whiff of vote-grabbing though as six days later we'll all have to decide who is doing a better job of running the borough in the local elections.

The only thing is that The Observer will come out on the evening of the vote so the Leader of the Council will have to do some serious buttering up of the Lancashire Telegraph that week.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Haven't you business owners applied to have have the street closed yet, for the Peel Street street party?

Don't leave it too late.

;)

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I can't deny that I'd have gone for a more subtle borough-wide approach but you have to remember who is in charge and how many photographs will need taking. Everyone who is getting married on 29th April gets their photo taken by the council, one presumes with the Leader.

An initiative is being rolled out to help people set up street parties in their own wards, something I am more in favour of and which I haven't seen since the wedding of Charles and Diana.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

well they can always nip upstairs fer a pee, if they stage this waste of money in the market hall.:(:rolleyes:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I suspect, if pushed, most folks would wish them well, after so many disastrous marriages in that particular family.

As for civic celebrations, the days of referential joy at occasions such as this, have long past.

Anyone interested will watch the box at home, or look at pictures of the nuptials in Hello, or Heat.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

The council already made closing Peel St a work in progress issue a couple of weeks ago. ;)

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Ken, will you marry me?

:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

So while we are all having street parties, some little yobs are nipping over your back wall to see what is on offer:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

On the occasions that I visit the market hall it is because I want to shop, those occasions have been very rare of late.
If we are to have a nationwide lock-out forcing we common folk out of work for the day, I won't be anywhere near the Market hall, a TV or anyone with half a mind that is celebrating this.
OOps, addendum to last sentence:-
I won't be anywhere near the Market hall, a TV or anyone that is even half inclined to celebrate this.

Well, actually comparing the two sentences I'll go for Number 1.

Rest assured though when I do go for number 1 it won't be in the Market Hall or even their bogs.
:o

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

oh yes you will the Railway is not that far from the Market and they have plenty of TV sets in there:cheers:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Regrettably for you, I conferred that honour on another Hyndburn resident some time ago and the post doesn't show any signs of becoming vacant.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Talking of the struggles faced by small businesses.

It's been decreed that this marriage means an extra bank holiday. Which means another holiday with pay, but also one less days trading to pay for it.

However, the Queen has decided not to give the thousands of royal staff in the country the day off.

So the gift shop at the Castle of Mey will be open that day, for anyone who happens to be passing, who wants a commerative tea towel.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Bound to be a footy match on, if not, there is gold radio, plus by then it should be warm enough to smoke outside, I can bring some wire cutters to make sure we don't have to listen to the speakers outside.
:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Shame.

You don't ask, you don't get.

Plus I always wanted a novelty bridesmaid.

Back to the drawing board.

:rolleyes:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Stick in there Ken, I'm right behind you on the toilet issue

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Sat in a chair at home with your feet up Margaret, I'll defo be doing that, the only differences is I WON'T be watching the wedding, weddings bring back to unhappy memories to me:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Can I be best man:D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

The sad thing is the council are prepared to shell out for this yet I've heard rumours that the carnival is in danger of being scrapped this year due to extra road closure costs :(

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Yet there are road closures involved for the Royal Wedding celebrations. Is the carnival before or after the elections?

Let me guess.....

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

After:rolleyes:

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Why are there road closures for the Royal Wedding:confused: Surely they aren't expecting so many people to be in Accrington that day???

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

They are closing the toilets at Westminster Abbey that day, all guests have to use the new improved Market Hall toilets :D

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

The carnival comes a bit too late for him.I don't know what the situation is, but but you'd hope it would still be on. Part of Accrington's tradition.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

There will be one private closet there, just for the Royal Wee.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Blackburn Road is being closed plus the road between the Castle pub and the Arndale Centre car park in order to accommodate a fireworks display.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

They could scrub the fireworks, and do as they did in '77, for the Jubilee, and have a bonfire.

Burning other peoples' money's great fun.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Oh, the endless jokes one could make about a Queen coming out of the closet.

Or even bigger ones about public toilets being shut during a town festival.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I've got an idea for a Scaitcliffe Street party.

The Councillors could sit outside eating their sandwiches and sausage rolls, courtesy of Councillor Hurn.

There would be no extra cost involved, because it would just be the same as any other Friday..........

:hehetable

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

John.....I said that was what people could do.........I didn't say I would be doing it..........while I appreciate these are historic occasions, with lots of pomp and glitter....... It really isn't me.

I will probably be in front of my computer screen......happily whiling away the time until the country returns to some sort of normality.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

This is a wind up .......correct...? If not, will the big screen be in HD....?

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

you where 3 years and 10 days old when they got married...and you remember it?? kin ell ;)

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I've spoken to several people today involved with the Market, and they are all under the impression that as it's a Bank Holiday they will all be off that day :confused:

Well, I read that it will be a day off for all except the queens staff, so market traders are under a higher dominion than even we imagined, does she call around on a Wednesday? No wonder their views are superseded!

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Entry might be restricted to arty farty types, wandering minstrels, a few mummers, and ardent royalists.

It is a leading arts venue, after all.

;)

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

Seems as if someone has other plans for them.........but at least they will be able to watch the junket on a specially set up TV screen....while PB and MH sit with their slippers on, in their own armchairs....and laugh up their sleeves at the 'working mugs' in the Market Hall.

But then again, knowing how PB likes his picture taking.......maybe not...he might be dashing from wedding to wedding....hope he doesn't get sick off Wedding cake:D.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I do actually!

I remember sitting on a bench in front of trestle tables and noticing while we were eating that the copper dome off the tower of the old foundry in Bamber Bridge was missing (it later became the roof of a new bandstand). There were also Union Flag plastic bags with a little cup inside from somewhere. I also remember being given some disgusting fish paste butties by a neighbour which put me off for life.

I'll attribute this incident to my overwhelming desire to seek out anything fishy and get rid of it.

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

It could just be a coincidence, but ever since this subject was raised on KenWeb there have been no butties at lunchtime committee meetings, even yesterday for The Leader.

I also note plans to reduce the buffet spending by £1,000 in the budget....

Re: Market Hall Refurbishment
 

I only wanted to see her dress. I was awaiting my O-level results, and needing at least six to go to art school to study fashion, I wanted a nose at what the Emanuels had come up with. (Creases, as it turned out.)

I watched it on the beach in St. Tropez, but got trapped by a topless hefty German woman. I was pinned in by the Bavarian Forest Mountain Range.

I am now a confirmed republican, and still in therapy.

:egged::eek::egged: