What can realistically be done with the old Co-Op?

Thehooperman

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Yes, all too often that happens.
Like with the Eagle a demolition team starts taking the roof tiles off until I notify the Council who get it stopped, then there's rain damage like water damage in the Co-op now. The Eagle's still there of course but it's not much use no longer a pub.

It wasn't much use as a pub if I remember correctly!
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Does the Co-op still own the building?

Would you need an 'excuse' to demolish a building like that, if the final product of the proposed development was acceptable, in planning terms?
 

Mudgie

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To be talked about in the Pub bit, not on the CO-OP bit.
Yes indeed.
Getting back on topic to the Co-op Department Store - I have two memories of it ;
In the late1960s my father using the Co-op Bank on the first floor off Princes Street,
In the 1980s attending an annual dinner in the Flamingo Restaurant on the first floor off Gaolgate Street. I can't recall if it was licensed but probably not as my meal was washed down by four pints of M&B Mild I got as a carryout from Gordon Eccles in the Chains. And that reminds me that Gordon, who had kept the White Lion until January 1976, was one of those great old school publicans other examples being Albert Dyde in the Rose and Crown and Joe Feenan in the Eagle.
 

Cue

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Does the Co-op still own the building?

Would you need an 'excuse' to demolish a building like that, if the final product of the proposed development was acceptable, in planning terms?

Maybe if you were going for a “help us rejuvenate this derelict mess” grant sob-story
 

Thehooperman

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Yes indeed.
Getting back on topic to the Co-op Department Store - I have two memories of it ;
In the late1960s my father using the Co-op Bank on the first floor off Princes Street,
In the 1980s attending an annual dinner in the Flamingo Restaurant on the first floor off Gaolgate Street. I can't recall if it was licensed but probably not as my meal was washed down by four pints of M&B Mild I got as a carryout from Gordon Eccles in the Chains. And that reminds me that Gordon, who had kept the White Lion until January 1976, was one of those great old school publicans other examples being Albert Dyde in the Rose and Crown and Joe Feenan in the Eagle.

Here we go again...................
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Just to bring things 'down to earth', whenever I go past the Princes Street entrance, I think of that extra bit of railing at the top of the stairs there, put there after the fatal fall in the mid-70s.
 

Carole

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and again and again, the "joke" has lost it's appeal and tbh is now just annoying which is probably what the little troll wants, this is what happpens if forums are left without a resonable and fair level of moderation

I couldn’t agree more.
Every single thread is now derailed by him into pubs. It’s become boring, tedious and it’s making the forum a less desirable place to visit.

Over the years we’ve had attention seekers like him before and they spoil it for the rest of us.

I really agree with @joshua , more moderation needed with this person please.
 

Withnail

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And yet you hit the 'like' button when banality hits a peak with the pop pickers top hitter.

What's the difference?

Meh.
 

Thehooperman

Well-Known Forumite
I couldn’t agree more.
Every single thread is now derailed by him into pubs. It’s become boring, tedious and it’s making the forum a less desirable place to visit.

Over the years we’ve had attention seekers like him before and they spoil it for the rest of us.

I really agree with @joshua , more moderation needed with this person please.

I just think it is so sad that someone can be so besotted with one topic and that topic was half a century ago.

It is also selfish and rude to constantly try to impose your views onto someone else's thread with no intention to contributing anything meaningful to that thread.

So rather than moderation I offer my pity and will offer to buy @Mudgie a pint if I ever meet him as long as he promises not to bang on about friggin pubs from 50 years ago when we meet :)
 
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