Market Square paving.

littleme

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So we've all only got ourselves and our employers to blame them, that there's nothing in town. It was like that picture when I worked in market Square at the insurers, I always stopped at shops , especially m&s before catching my bus home, and that was when the bus's had just moved to behind m& s .
 

EasMid

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Anyone remember what was at the Hough, Queens retail park, Madford at the time of that photo? 🙊🤔😉 (to name but a few)
 

gilbert grape

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I remember the market square looking like that, I used hate it if I had to walk under that bus shelter for any reason. It was always packed to the rafters.
The flower beds were a welcome sight tho, loads of seating to rest and people watch.
You're never that old? :roll::tumbleweed:
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
You're never that old? :roll::tumbleweed:
Sadly, I'm 60 this Christmas.................. I remember flower beds in the market square and that tatty old bus shelter.
But that was in the days where I walked everywhere, we lived up in Doxey and I could get to town in 15 minutes from our house. Now it can take me 10 minutes get Sainsburys, depending on how bad my joints are hurting.
 

Mudgie

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Sadly, I'm 60 this Christmas.................. I remember flower beds in the market square and that tatty old bus shelter.
But that was in the days where I walked everywhere, we lived up in Doxey and I could get to town in 15 minutes from our house. Now it can take me 10 minutes get Sainsburys, depending on how bad my joints are hurting.
and the underground toilets ?
 

Thehooperman

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Sadly, I'm 60 this Christmas.................. I remember flower beds in the market square and that tatty old bus shelter.
But that was in the days where I walked everywhere, we lived up in Doxey and I could get to town in 15 minutes from our house. Now it can take me 10 minutes get Sainsburys, depending on how bad my joints are hurting.
A quick Google search found this about the flower beds which I didn't know.
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Also, those were the days when buses were large enough to carry all of those shoppers from the photo that @littleme posted, look they've all got on the double decker 😂😂😂
 

The Hawk

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A quick Google search found this about the flower beds which I didn't know.
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Also, those were the days when buses were large enough to carry all of those shoppers from the photo that @littleme posted, look they've all got on the double decker 😂😂😂
"The timber framed building next to Boots was Averil's Old Shop. Dating from 1475, it had been a chemist's since 1786. It was demolished in 1961". :ohno:
 

Gramaisc

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The Market Square of that era was a public amenity, not just the bit of empty space that it became.

The bus shelter was, presumably, the responsibility of 'someone else' and was a desperate shambles of a thing.

Also of note in the picture is the Stairway to 'Heaven'...
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
A quick Google search found this about the flower beds which I didn't know.
View attachment 13849
Also, those were the days when buses were large enough to carry all of those shoppers from the photo that @littleme posted, look they've all got on the double decker 😂😂😂
So we got a nice Market Square to celebrate the coronation of QE2 and a total bombsite to celebrate the coronation of Chaz3.

Fitting really.
 

littleme

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"The timber framed building next to Boots was Averil's Old Shop. Dating from 1475, it had been a chemist's since 1786. It was demolished in 1961". :ohno:
I was going to ask what it was? I worked for Warren Hill insurers, which was above what is now Waterstones (the building* with the black car in front of it? I think, or maybe the next one along?)... There's an alley between there & boots though now.


*The building is huge! 3 floors, and goes on forever like a rabbit warren
 

Cirrus

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. past this morning, nothing happening, not a worker in sight. The way it's going i think it still won't be finished next year
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
. past this morning, nothing happening, not a worker in sight. The way it's going i think it still won't be finished next year
Oh come on, your attitude stinks.

Everybody knows that it was a bank holiday last weekend and, as it's a bank holiday next weekend, there is no need to go back to work in between. Not when your job is paid for with public funds, anyway.

In addition, as there's also a bank holiday at the end of the month, there is little point in going back for the rest of May either.
 
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