Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
I will be honest, with regards to the Local Data Company I have always been sketchy about when they say a town is xx% empty. They actually do not do an overall count, they just look at one area of a town/ city and average. Their figures can be very off.

Hence why alot of town councils get in a tiss about their data.

However, more simplistic counts ( openings / closures) are more routine and at least reliable.

This data is good news for Stafford, as at the end of the day the town is outperforming other regional trends.

2017 could be even better with the old greenwoods,
shoe zone,
db roberts
capital applicances (by SBC) all now taken.

With 2 new shops due to open in salter st,
another 2 in mill street,
another at riverside gallery,
coal at riverside,
a new retailer (tba) at riverside will be announced very soon,
subway reopening,
all 3 units under staffs place now taken in, restaurant at the tavern,
b&m and aldi soon to open,
warren james and another new shop (tbc) in the guildhall,
new venue at chambers,
similarly new line up at the bird in hand
and the start of the cinema build.......it could be a very good year for the town in 2017.

Of course no doubt there will be a negative in all of that.......you all know what I mean :)


Is the Tavern/Bath Hotel going to be a restaurant or 14 flats for little people?
 

JTL85

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Sources* suggest there's a meeting this morning about the internal layout of the guildhall

*I saw three blokes in Starbucks this morning with planning drawings showing the internal layout and the frontage, they mentioned a 9 o'clock meeting
 

Wormella

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Sources* suggest there's a meeting this morning about the internal layout of the guildhall

*I saw three blokes in Starbucks this morning with planning drawings showing the internal layout and the frontage, they mentioned a 9 o'clock meeting

That's my favourite kind of intel =D
 

basil

don't mention the blinds
Sources* suggest there's a meeting this morning about the internal layout of the guildhall

*I saw three blokes in Starbucks this morning with planning drawings showing the internal layout and the frontage, they mentioned a 9 o'clock meeting

Top snooping....
 

Gareth

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This thread has 54 pages on Stafford becoming a Ghost Town, isn't it time we started celebrating the opening of stores not the closing of them or are we all still celebrating the words of Charles Dickens
"As dull & dead a town as anyone could desire not to see"

Agree with Chris, there is plenty going on and hopefully more to come. Even talk of new openings is on this thread even though I think there are threads about shops opening
 

whitelion

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When George Orwell was heading north to write "The Road to Wigan Pier" he stayed in Stafford he mentioned it was a s**thole then.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
When George Orwell was heading north to write "The Road to Wigan Pier" he stayed in Stafford he mentioned it was a s**thole then.
George Orwell said:
Walked 10 miles to Penkridge.
Walk from W’ton to Penkridge very dull and raining all the way. Villa-civilization stretches almost unbroken between the two towns. In Penkridge about 4.30 halted for a cup of tea. A tiny frouzy parlour with a nice fire, a little wizened oldish man and an enormous woman about 45, with tow-coloured bobbed hair and no front teeth.
Both of them thought me a hero to be walking on such a day. Had tea with them en famille. About 5.15 left and walked another couple of miles, then caught bus the remaining 4 miles to Stafford.
Went to Temperance Hotel thinking this would be cheap, but bed and breakfast 5 /-. The usual dreadful room and twill sheets greyish and smelly as usual. Went to bathroom and found commercial traveller developing snapshots in bath. Persuaded him to remove them and had a bath, after which I find myself very footsore.
Distance walked, about 16 miles.
 

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords

Charles Dickens
George Orwell
John Cooper Clarke
Mickey Dolenz

Stafford plays host to exam board writers

GCSE blue plaques a gogo
 

basil

don't mention the blinds
Shirley Bassey

Princess Margaret

Ethel Austin

Harry Fenton

Boris Johnson

Divas the lot of em, all been here but frankly we're better off without them.....
 

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
Shirley Bassey

Princess Margaret

Ethel Austin

Harry Fenton

Boris Johnson

Divas the lot of em, all been here but frankly we're better off without them.....


Peter Sellers

Kevin Coyne

Sir Bob

Sir Cliff

Latoya

You boys sure toookahelluvabeating
 
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