Market Hall Refurbishment - Page 15

Ken Moss · 18-08-2010, 06:25

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Originally Posted by MargaretR

I prefer it to stay there, so that people know who is responsible for the whole fiasco.

It would be far better for someone to take the reins properly and sort it our for the poor stallholders.

After what I saw yesterday, the solutions are glaringly obvious but it will be hard to get the grabbing Tories to see this.

accysimon · 19-08-2010, 16:29

I was in the Market Hall today and can't believe just how poor it looked. The floor isn't safe for anyone unsteady on their feet either. What a waste of money.

shillelagh · 19-08-2010, 20:03

Can i ask 2 things ....

1. Wheres the sweetie stall gone ... spugs needs his fix of coltsfoot rock ... and if ossie mills is shutting in accy where else will i get it from...

2. Whats an old settee 2 old chairs a table and a kettle doing in place of a market stall at the far end near where them stairs are .. saw this last week .. and if anyone says thats art ...

MargaretR · 19-08-2010, 20:22

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

2. Whats an old settee 2 old chairs a table and a kettle doing in place of a market stall at the far end near where them stairs are .. saw this last week .. and if anyone says thats art ...

.....provided for the local winos?

Gayle · 19-08-2010, 20:23

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

Can i ask 2 things ....

1. Wheres the sweetie stall gone ... spugs needs his fix of coltsfoot rock ... and if ossie mills is shutting in accy where else will i get it from...

2. Whats an old settee 2 old chairs a table and a kettle doing in place of a market stall at the far end near where them stairs are .. saw this last week .. and if anyone says thats art ...

It's not art!!!

But it is the place where the artists are using for a few weeks.

Atarah · 19-08-2010, 21:21

Hi, sweetie stall still there. Go in side door, nearest to Town Hall, and its there, looks good too! Taken over what used to be the first butchers stall - to your left as you walk in.

Taggy · 20-08-2010, 07:27

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Originally Posted by accysimon

I was in the Market Hall today and can't believe just how poor it looked. The floor isn't safe for anyone unsteady on their feet either. What a waste of money.

Yep i'd agree with that too! Whilst i must admit the flooring does actually Look better in its original form, its not comfortable to push a wheelchair user around because its uneven.

Best Regards - Taggy

Ken Moss · 22-08-2010, 08:08

The official tally of empty stalls is three, although we counted ten on the lower level. Most of the units upstairs were unoccupied as well and the rent being asked was ludicrous.

The coffee shop on the upper floor was also barely ticking over which, bearing in mind who owns it, might account for the tremendous push to get market traders working six days a week to increase footfall (which it won't).

steeljack · 22-08-2010, 08:19

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

The coffee shop on the upper floor was also barely ticking over which, bearing in mind who owns it, might account for the tremendous push to get market traders working six days a week to increase footfall (which it won't).

Think that's a bit unfair , Winston Churchill's father was a well known degenerate who died of syphilis and his mother an immigrent American jewess , would you hold that agaist his son ?

cashman · 22-08-2010, 08:28

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Originally Posted by steeljack

Think that's a bit unfair , Winston Churchill's father was a well known degenerate who died of syphilis and his mother an immigrent American jewess , would you hold that agaist his son ?

Possibly would, but his plan during the general strike CERTAINLY Would.

steeljack · 22-08-2010, 08:35

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Originally Posted by cashman

Possibly would, but his plan during the general strike CERTAINLY Would.

Yep , my Grandma ("Red Maggie" ,Blackburn weavers union ) would have agreed with you , she hated the guy

cashman · 22-08-2010, 09:02

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Originally Posted by steeljack

Yep , my Grandma ("Red Maggie" ,Blackburn weavers union ) would have agreed with you , she hated the guy

Me n yer nan woulda got on famously steely.

Ken Moss · 24-08-2010, 06:05

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Originally Posted by steeljack

Think that's a bit unfair , Winston Churchill's father was a well known degenerate who died of syphilis and his mother an immigrent American jewess , would you hold that agaist his son ?

I'd never wish anyone to fail in business, particularly someone self-employed, but bringing an entire market hall to heel just so that your son might get a few more punters in his coffee shop is just not on.

Of course I'm only speculating, it could just be a huge coincidence, but no other market that I can think of forces its stallholders to open six days a week. There's also a whole layer of management (Quarterbridge) who should have been fired off after renovations were completed but it seems that we're still paying them as consultants.

Why, if Cllrs Britcliffe and Haworth are pulling the strings?

Margaret Pilkington · 24-08-2010, 07:24

Probably so they(PB and MH) have someone they can lay the blame on.

Margaret Pilkington · 24-08-2010, 07:25

I know! I'm a cynical old sod.