Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I had cause to go to Uttoxeter the other day, a town that I have never parted with any of my own money in*. It seems much busier than it used to be when it was a sleepy, out-of-the-way place that you went through to go somewhere else.Rugeley most certainly is not doing better, it's dreadful. Cannock is stagnating in the town centre, sadly and Burton, I never go to because, well, it's Burton.
Newport and Lichfield are doing considerably better. The average domestic income will be a lot higher as well, I'd imagine. There also seems to be some imagination from those with influence on display with regard to bringing the punters in.
*I did get petrol a couple of times in the 1970s, when there was still a garage near the Abbots Bromley turn-off.