Friends of the Old Library

Staffordballs

Active Member

• Nov 30, 2018

• #141

The oriental figures (4) used to be atop 'Motor Cycle Mecca' in Market Street from when it was originally a tea warehouse (where the now closed '99p' store is)

 

joshua

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• Feb 13, 2019

• #142

18/29663/FUL | Conversion of existing building to 2 apartments and bar/restaurant on the ground floor and 8 apartments on the first floor (together with Listed Building application 18/29664/LBC)

 

Tilly

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• Feb 13, 2019

• #143

Tandori Zone, Pizza Zone or Pie in Sky Zone sire?.....

 

Tilly

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• Feb 13, 2019

• #144

 

Tilly

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• Feb 13, 2019

• #145

 

Tilly

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• Feb 13, 2019

• #146

 

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Tumble weed

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• Feb 13, 2019

• #147

Seems good to me. It'll be nice to have the place back in use.

Now, if only someone came up with a plan for the old post house...

 

Tilly

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• Feb 13, 2019

• #148

Tumble weed said:

Seems good to me. It'll be nice to have the place back in use.

Now, if only someone came up with a plan for the old post house...

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Or the old Grammar School ?

Plans are fine

It's that fuzzy money thing

It's only numbers innerit

 

1JKz

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• Feb 13, 2019

• #149

As long as the roof is fit for purpose, like the Old Post House it'll stay standing for another few years yet.

 

joshua

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• Feb 13, 2019

• #150

Tumble weed said:

Seems good to me. It'll be nice to have the place back in use.
Now, if only someone came up with a plan for the old post house...

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Tilly

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• Feb 13, 2019

• #151

If anyone knows of any bank willing to offer unsecured loans to cover this sort of build do speak up.

 

Withnail

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• Feb 13, 2019

• #152

Staffordballs said:

The oriental figures (4) used to be atop 'Motor Cycle Mecca' in Market Street from when it was originally a tea warehouse (where the now closed '99p' store is)

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- "which have puzzled Staffordians : or generations (sic)"

They're not that puzzling - unless you think that Yorkshire Tea comes from plantations in Barnsley.

 

Goldilox

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• Feb 14, 2019

• #153

Withnail said:

- "which have puzzled Staffordians: or generations (sic)"

They're not that puzzling - unless you think that Yorkshire Tea comes from plantations in Barnsley.

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I remember the manager of a coffee house I once worked in explaining emphatically in the face of a customer's disbelief that Italian Roast was definitely grown in Italy...







disclaimer before anyone jumps to conclusions: it wasn't in Stafford, it's almost certainly no one you know

 

Gramaisc

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• Jul 1, 2019

• #154

There is still work going on in the old library - I could hear an aluminium step-ladder being manoeuvred as I went past today.

 

gilbert grape

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• Jul 3, 2019

• #155

So, some time ago I saw an email and that stated a number of things that were in the pipeline.
Restaurant in Mill Street - Done
Plans for conversion of the end of Gaolgate Street - Plans recently announced for hotel
Library conversion - In progress
Re-opening of Post House with use as bar, restaurant and live music - Still no word
Old Tavern - Plans for an eatery
Burtons on Gaolgate St - New pub, well underway on construction

I was walking past the old Katharine House shop in Stafford St today and there seemed to be work going on. The old Moben shop is now also occupied with a beauty treatment sorta thing.

Some of it has happened or is in the pipeline, so I hope it carries on. I do hope the new library eating establishment is something a bit different rather than just more competition for existing spots.