Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

The Hawk

The Hawk

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staffordjas said:
I got my wedding cake made by a Taylors in Mill Street ,if I remember the name correctly, in 1982 . (They cocked up , when we collected on the morning of the wedding they were trying to usher us out quickly without looking inside the box.... not the decoration or figure on top that we had chosen , but had to put up with it as too late to change. Gave us a few boxes of cream cakes as compensation....:roll: )
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Gramaisc

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There was a lot of cake shops around in the 80s - Jenkinson's and Bakers Oven also come to mind.

We had a cake syndicate at work - any birthdays or significant events or any purchases over fifty quid would trigger a cake event in the tea school.

With fifteen to twenty people involved, that would cause the threshold to be crossed most weeks.


Bakers Oven was subsumed into the Greggs empire, I believe.
 
Glam

Glam

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I'm sure there were two Taylors cake shops in town, one by Boots chemists and the other in Mill Street. I used get the kids birthday cakes from there, till they decided Mums home made was much nicer.
 
basil

basil

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Glam said:
I'm sure there were two Taylors cake shops in town, one by Boots chemists and the other in Mill Street. I used get the kids birthday cakes from there, till they decided Mums home made was much nicer.
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And one on Newport rd, for the grammar quacks?...
 
Thehooperman

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Glam said:
I'm sure there were two Taylors cake shops in town, one by Boots chemists and the other in Mill Street. I used get the kids birthday cakes from there, till they decided Mums home made was much nicer.
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The one by Boots was where Gregg's is today, I think.
 
BobClay

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"Let them eat cake.... " she said. … but I can't help but think you guys are taking that a bit far …. :teef::dance:
 
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Tumble weed

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Gramaisc said:
I hadn't noticed that Bridgewood House now seems to be a hotel.

http://www.bridgewoodhouse.co.uk/
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Didn't realise that ! I dunno how Stafford can sustain all these hotels, it's hardly a business capital, but this , swan, the vine, and the Stafford / bridge Street apartments, that's gotta be well over 100 rooms available every night ! That's not even including travel lodge.
But I guess the demand for student flats is near zero too. They'd have did better just turning the block info apartments and flogging them.
 
Gramaisc

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Tumble weed said:
Didn't realise that ! I dunno how Stafford can sustain all these hotels, it's hardly a business capital, but this , swan, the vine, and the Stafford / bridge Street apartments, that's gotta be well over 100 rooms available every night ! That's not even including travel lodge.
But I guess the demand for student flats is near zero too. They'd have did better just turning the block info apartments and flogging them.
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It seems to have been going on for at least the last three years - http://www.staffordforum.com/xf/ind...cts-about-your-day.11163/page-658#post-305866
 
c0tt0nt0p

c0tt0nt0p

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Tumble weed said:
Didn't realise that ! I dunno how Stafford can sustain all these hotels, it's hardly a business capital, but this , swan, the vine, and the Stafford / bridge Street apartments, that's gotta be well over 100 rooms available every night ! That's not even including travel lodge.
But I guess the demand for student flats is near zero too. They'd have did better just turning the block info apartments and flogging them.
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The prices seem to be very keen...the max for a one night double was £45...
 
BobClay

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Have to say I had a look at the prices and they don't seem bad. However, not sure where the car parking would come into it. Don't get me wrong, on my visits to Stafford I would happily travel by train, except the West Country was de-trainified by the Dr (grossly overpaid twat vandal) Beeching and it would take me as long to get to the nearest mainline train station by taxi/bus as it would to get from Exeter to Stafford.
(Sorry to politicise it, but if I had Beeching in front of me now … IT WOULD BE LAMPSHADE TIME. ) :mad:
 
industryarch

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Tumble weed said:
Didn't realise that ! I dunno how Stafford can sustain all these hotels, it's hardly a business capital, but this , swan, the vine, and the Stafford / bridge Street apartments, that's gotta be well over 100 rooms available every night ! That's not even including travel lodge.
But I guess the demand for student flats is near zero too. They'd have did better just turning the block info apartments and flogging them.
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Stafford is a motorway stop for folks heading to scotland, reasonable drive from the south, looking for an over night, choice of Birmingham or stoke or Stafford people pick Stafford
 
Wormella

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industryarch said:
Stafford is a motorway stop for folks heading to scotland, reasonable drive from the south, looking for an over night, choice of Birmingham or stoke or Stafford people pick Stafford
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Yes - and you only need a large event at the showground and finding hotel rooms can be a nightmare.

I walk past the Chetwynd Center every day and think what a fab hotel that would make
 
Wormella

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Gramaisc said:
I'm not always a fan of tarting up run-down buildings, but the result on the Greyfriars shops is really quite good, I think.




Let's hope that whatever happens across the road is well done.
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Wait - I meant the school on Newport road - (is everything just called Chetwynd in Stafford) but now you mention is the old job center would also make a great hotel.
 
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