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As part of my geography coursework, I need to write about shop ages in Stafford, does anyone know of the ages/year built of TESCO ASDA SAINSBURYS RETAIL PARKS THE COUNCIL BUILDINGS THE GUILDHALL etc
Thanks in advanced!
 
Gramaisc

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Tesco has had various sites in the town - the food shop was where Superdrug is now until 1977, I think, when the abandoned store by the river was built. Then the Newport Road store opened later - there is ample room for confusion. Sainsbury's has also moved - the original store was where Wilkinson's is now..
 
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Go to the Library, Market St. entrance, and climb the stairs to the 1st floor. Take a right and walk down the corridor to the room that has Local Studies jutting out at you. Go inside this room and look in the bookcase that is on the right hand side wall to you. In this bookcase you will find many small books, well i say books but they are more like, erm, pamphlets. Pamphlet is perhaps not quite the word - 'pamphlets with attitude' perhaps, or 'pamphlets *now with added girth*'. Either way, they are by a chap called Roy Lewis, and are his Stafford Street Series.

I kind of got carried away with the word 'pamphlet' there, in a way that i hope at least some people may find understandable. Bottom line is, go to the library (1st floor) and read the 'Stafford Street Series' - it will tell you all you need to know.

And quite possibly more.
 
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Edit - They (^) won't tell you anything about the big, peripheral Gas Giants such as Asda and the like, but will have much detail on the inner shopping planets that people unwilling to do any proper research will miss.

Triple distinctions all round!
 
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Gramaisc said:
UNESCO defines a pamphlet as having a minimum of five pages and a maximum of forty-eight.
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No. 12 has 64 pages - 'pamphlet *now with added girth*' is, i fear, a definition unlikely to gain UNESCO approval, yet one that perhaps has its merits.
 
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Gramaisc said:
Sainsbury's has also moved -
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Sainsbury's 1953
 
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This thread has made me attempt to dig out my quite extensive notes on the subject, which in turn has led me to ponder upon the question - where are my effing notes on this question? - to which question i have no answer.

My only fall back in the circumstances being, you could do your own homework, instead of asking me for it.

Having said that, it's a jolly good question, what? :)
 
tek-monkey

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Hmm, I remember them building it as I lived in Park Street then moved to Friars Terrace during that time. I'm pretty sure I moved mid 2004, and it opened not long after.

I have odd memories of the big gas towers where Sainsburys is now, and also very vague ones of a slaughterhouse near the prison?
 
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