Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

Tumble weed

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Works started up again on the old Connexions block, it's becoming a three story apartment block. Think the plans said between 16-20.
 

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Cue

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Works started up again on the old Connexions block, it's becoming a three story apartment block. Think the plans said between 16-20.

I really cannot begin to work out how you’d fit that many apartments in there, that’s 5-6 apartments per floor, and it’s not a terribly deep building. They’d all basically have to be studios surely?
 

littleme

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Had reason to go to an 'apartment' in Stafford Box a few years ago..... It was a one room studio.... A very big studio, though still one room....
 

Gramaisc

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I really cannot begin to work out how you’d fit that many apartments in there, that’s 5-6 apartments per floor, and it’s not a terribly deep building. They’d all basically have to be studios surely?
A chap I worked with had an 'apartment' there around 1980. Stafford had the odd tramp in those days, but none of the modern form of homelessness, so the cleaners didn't lock the stairwell entrance door when they left at night. He would wait on the SGI wall until they had gone and then move in for the night, using the top landing. He stayed there for four nights a week for over a year, being sure to leave early in the morning and going home to Worcester for the three weekend nights. He had toilet/washing facilities, etc and it's possible that people may even have been aware, but regarded him as a free security feature.

He was an 'odd bod' and it took people a long time to find out why he carried a huge rucksack to and from work every day, but never accessed it during the day.
 

littleme

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A chap I worked with had an 'apartment' there around 1980. Stafford had the odd tramp in those days, but none of the modern form of homelessness, so the cleaners didn't lock the stairwell entrance door when they left at night. He would wait on the SGI wall until they had gone and then move in for the night, using the top landing. He stayed there for four nights a week for over a year, being sure to leave early in the morning and going home to Worcester for the three weekend nights. He had toilet/washing facilities, etc and it's possible that people may even have been aware, but regarded him as a free security feature.

He was an 'odd bod' and it took people a long time to find out why he carried a huge rucksack to and from work every day, but never accessed it during the day.
Did he work at BT, or the college by any chance?
 

Tumble weed

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I really cannot begin to work out how you’d fit that many apartments in there, that’s 5-6 apartments per floor, and it’s not a terribly deep building. They’d all basically have to be studios surely?
They're building another floor on top iirc.
 

Tumble weed

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Work has started on this area, constructing a set of new town centre apartments .

Think I read they're keeping the front and what's left of the shell, and extending it to the same height as the one next door.

Glad to see another derelict building being bought back into use .
 

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BobClay

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I’ve known Cyril since he worked at Boults a long time ago. Boults was down the road a bit opposite the jail on the corner of Crooked Bridge Road. Last bike I bought from Chellies was a Suzuki GSXR 1100K in 1989. It got nicked in Manchester in 1990 while I was at an OU summer school at UMIST.

I’m still pissed off about it. :grr:
 
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