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Tillington Hall closing.
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markpa12003
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I have visited Tillington Manor once in about 40 years. The last time was for a wedding when I was about 10 (I was the paige boy), so sometime around 1990.
I recently visited the Holmcroft Park next door and looked over the fence to view the hotel. I remember thinking at the time that it looked a little run down and unloved, hence why I'm not surprised by the news.
The hotel could be fanatic but it needs some money spent on it. I'd love to see it become an upmarket hotel. There are enough budget / standard hotels in Stafford and I don't want another care home.
I recently visited the Holmcroft Park next door and looked over the fence to view the hotel. I remember thinking at the time that it looked a little run down and unloved, hence why I'm not surprised by the news.
The hotel could be fanatic but it needs some money spent on it. I'd love to see it become an upmarket hotel. There are enough budget / standard hotels in Stafford and I don't want another care home.
Mudgie
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Spending some money to see it become a "fantastic" upmarket hotel would be a risky venture for a 4½ acre site that could easily net over £2 million for redevelopment as at least thirty four-bedroomed houses that would otherwise be built on green fields.
Stafford always needs more houses - and more care homes !
c0tt0nt0p
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You had me up to the bit where you said Stafford needs more homes lol
Mudgie
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The exclamation mark was meant to suggest that those nine words weren't entirely serious.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
And who's going to be able to afford these 4 bedroomed Lego build homes? Not me, and certainly not my own kids.
Thehooperman
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Whoever wants to be within 4 hours commuting drive to Bham or Manchester each way.
Probably less if working from home continues.
Mudgie
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Then it'll be forty or fifty two-bedroomed "affordable" houses which will give the planning application a better chance of being accepted.
Mudgie
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Yes, so it'll be both on the site of Tillington Hall, nice £500,000 homes on the quiet bit where the hotel now is then ugly "affordable" flats looking like office blocks adjacent to the main road - there'll be no problems with that as far as SBC's planning department is concerned.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Well, it is near Moorfields and Pitt Street!
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Is Pitt Street a bit rough then?
Can't say if even heard of it before, which is odd, as when I looked on Google Maps, it's just off Alliance Street, which I always use as a shortcut, whether there's road works in the area or not.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Used be, I am going back a few yrs though.
Do you remember those two that held up the Stone Road Post Office a few yrs ago? They came from that area, although one was from Young Avenue, right opposite the school.
Let's just say, I wouldn't want my car to break down whilst driving through.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
I'll swing by when I next use Alliance Street.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
You taking the mick? I used work with a woman who lived down that street. One morning her husband went to work and she had a lie in. Blissfully dozing off, she heard someone shout - ''Shall I stick the kettle on?'' Next door neighbours key fit her back door and she wandered in like she lived there.
They had all the locks changed after that.
BobClay
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When I was a student I got a summer job at Clover Dairy which was up on or by Moorfields. Occasionally I'd be asked to take a float out to restock a roundsman who'd run short. I was on my way back through Moorfields when an old mate of mine from Kingston School hailed me. (Not going to mention his name.)
"Could you take me back some empties ?" he asked and I said "Sure."
He ran back into the house and came out with a large pile of empty sterilised milk bottles and slid them into the empty crates on the back of the float.
"When were they delivered ?" I asked.
"They weren't," he replied. "We went over the fence at the back at night and nicked them." Then he laughed. (The sterilised milk bottles were left out on pallets in the yard back then.)
Cheeky bastard had involved me in the Great Sterilised Milk Heist !!!
I went back into the yard and slid the crates onto the pickup pallet. I'm still waiting for the knock on the door.
"Could you take me back some empties ?" he asked and I said "Sure."
He ran back into the house and came out with a large pile of empty sterilised milk bottles and slid them into the empty crates on the back of the float.
"When were they delivered ?" I asked.
"They weren't," he replied. "We went over the fence at the back at night and nicked them." Then he laughed. (The sterilised milk bottles were left out on pallets in the yard back then.)
Cheeky bastard had involved me in the Great Sterilised Milk Heist !!!
I went back into the yard and slid the crates onto the pickup pallet. I'm still waiting for the knock on the door.
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