Town Centre Changes

jaysay said:
Spot on about Leigh Wyn its like Regent Street compared to Accy, My other half lives in the next town and I often went shopping with here, in fact she won't even entertain shopping in Accy when she's over, the nearest to doing any shopping over here is Ossy Mills
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I've heard a lot of Ossy Mills. I guess it is in Oswaldtwistle,where, and what type of shopping is it?.
 
Wynonie Harris said:
I know I keep banging on about this, but quite often I go into Leigh for my daily brew and a spot of shopping with Mrs H. It's a similar-sized post-industrial town and like Accy, is sandwiched between two bigger towns - Wigan and Bolton.....
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According to wikipedia Leigh has a population of 43,000 and Accrington has a population of 35,000 which makes Accrington just over 3/4 the population of Leigh.

Darwen has a population of 31,500 so is closer to Accrington in size, what's it's market and shopping centre like?

Bury is often mentioned as having a good market/shopping centre with a population of almost 61,000.

It's not just the number though, you have to look at the spending power of those people. That is what the retailers look at when they decide if they want to move into or leave Accrington

Chorley is smaller than Accrington by about 3,000 but I suspect will have more spending power
 
darwen may be closer to accy in size but darwen dosnt have an abhorant arndale center ,tescos and asda supermarkets

they have just got a morrisons a few years back so the destruction of tehir town center may be in the early stages but up until that point darwens indoor market and side street shops were more than adequate for a town of its size

its just a pitty our council didnt realise the same and stopped trying to make accrington to be something it isnt

the arndale didnt attract buisness to accrington it simply moved them from broadway into teh arndale and then a couple of years later the big names moved to whitebirk taking shoppers to blackburn
 
think it used to be £1 to get in to see the worlds largest pear drop.


i thought it was a bargain until i was told you couldnt lick it :(
 
I think the name of the mill was Enfield.
My dad was a tackler there for a few years before he retired.

Katex would know because she worked at Ossy Mills, but she doesn't come here much now.
 
MargaretR said:
I think the name of the mill was Enfield.
My dad was a tackler there for a few years before he retired.

Katex would know because she worked at Ossy Mills, but she doesn't come here much now.
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Aint on about the ossy mills mill Margaret, I worked at Enfield in 60s, on about the name of mill that faced the Pickups Arms.;)
 
The Market Hall is getting more and more stalls in it now…
Accrington is a Market Town… I have said it before flatten the Andale ( what left of it) and spend on the Arcade on Warner Street…. We need to be different to the other towns… Warner Street’s got some
Nice specialist shops on it… they need to leave well alone with the bus station… and work on what we have…. And the outdoor Market needs sorting… people used to come Accrington because it was different ( I am sure we could get that back again) if the powers that be used their heads and ask us the public what we want…. It’s time to stand out… before we become a complete ghost town…

I notice Ossy Mills now have Peacocks in there ( the store ) not the birds.... so will we have a mini what used to be high street in the mill ? one wonders.
 
the powers that be used to come on here and agree that changes needed to be made to improve accrington town center when they wernt in power

since elected no changes,no action and no fresh ideas and definatly no indication of cleaning up the drunks and smackheads unless you count removing benches from town center as acceptable action
 
I read with interest but no surprise at all that 1 in 5 shops is going to be gone from high streets in the next 5 years. In Accy it'll be more.

That story, which is on the news today underlines the permanent change that our society is going through caused by a mix of recession and Internet shopping. The question to be addressed and alluded to by me is what should be done with the empty space. That's what I've been getting at in threads like this one and the one about what can the Mayor do to prevent Accys further decline.

All his is opportunity for me because I pickup the broken properties at auction to be fixed/repurposed to residential if required. In general the council needs a funded plan, and I don't believe they have one (they had a plan that was not funded) so what now Hyndburn?
 
GEaston said:
I read with interest but no surprise at all that 1 in 5 shops is going to be gone from high streets in the next 5 years. In Accy it'll be more.

That story, which is on the news today underlines the permanent change that our society is going through caused by a mix of recession and Internet shopping. The question to be addressed and alluded to by me is what should be done with the empty space. That's what I've been getting at in threads like this one and the one about what can the Mayor do to prevent Accys further decline.

All his is opportunity for me because I pickup the broken properties at auction to be fixed/repurposed to residential if required. In general the council needs a funded plan, and I don't believe they have one (they had a plan that was not funded) so what now Hyndburn?
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That story didn't surprise me one bit, I for one haven't bought anything from a shop myself for 18 years its all been done either on the internet or by phone and most of my food shopping is done at ASDA or Tesco, I sure I'm not the only one either
 
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