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

Mudgie

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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
Yes indeed. I regrettably got a bit carried away there.
Getting back on topic to the Co-op Department Store I've thought that though that's gone the Co-op still has a large presence in Stafford.
In the 1970s I remember them having four grocery stores - Stone Road, Littleworth, Weeping Cross, Rising Brook - but that's more than doubled now with First Avenue, Holmcroft Road, Beacon Business Park, Baswich Lane, Silkmore Lane and maybe more I don't know of as I'm not really one for spending my time going shopping.
And that reminds me how shopping trends have changed in recent years, the building of edge of town 'hyperstores' giving way to smaller localer stores, some new builds and others conversions of other buildings. the only example of which I can think of being the George and Fox in Penkridge by Sainsbury's ( and I only know of that with Mrs Mudgie stopping off there for a few things on our way home from eating out in the Swan at Whiston ).
Getting back on topic to the Co-Op they even seem to be expanding their Undertaking business in Stafford with I think premises in Salter Street as well as Silkmore Lane and Stone Road.
 

Mudgie

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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 :)
If my comments come across as "selfish and rude" to anyone on here I can only apologise and henceforth reconsider my activity on here.
I could add that deteriorating mental health with going nowhere and seeing no one for fifteen months hasn't helped.
I had hoped to mainly offer facts and reminiscences on here rather than opinions and it had certainly never been my intention to "impose my views" on anyone here.
 

BobClay

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I worked for the Co-op in 1965, The one at the top of the Rec, their main store then on Salter Street, then the new Supermarket (part of the building under discussion here but opening onto the shopping centre) and the one at the top end of Castle Street, which I think became an electrical store and is now residential. (I think.)
It was the last shore job I had before going sea and to be honest I can't remember much about it except we used to have a lot of laughs.
 

Tumble weed

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I for one feel a little saddened that whoever owns the building has deliberately left it to deteriorate to such an extent.

I did have fond memories of the place, but the way things are going, all the back half off the main high street is ultimately going to be demolished due to their neglect.

The weird thing is, it's still under offer as far as I can see, but surely it's value decreases every day.
 

Tumble weed

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Surely it's only a matter of time too, before the remaining tenants , the dance studio, game, ee, blue cross and Millet's start noticing the building is beginning to deteriorate ?

I mean you can't have water pouring round next door and it literally crumbling around internally, without affecting your own property, surely ?
 

Thehooperman

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If my comments come across as "selfish and rude" to anyone on here I can only apologise and henceforth reconsider my activity on here.
I could add that deteriorating mental health with going nowhere and seeing no one for fifteen months hasn't helped.
I had hoped to mainly offer facts and reminiscences on here rather than opinions and it had certainly never been my intention to "impose my views" on anyone here.

And I shall look forward to buying you a pint should our paths cross in a real ale establishment at any time in the future.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
If my comments come across as "selfish and rude" to anyone on here I can only apologise and henceforth reconsider my activity on here.
I could add that deteriorating mental health with going nowhere and seeing no one for fifteen months hasn't helped.
I had hoped to mainly offer facts and reminiscences on here rather than opinions and it had certainly never been my intention to "impose my views" on anyone here.
This seems a good point now for us all to move on and just enjoy the forum.
 

BobClay

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I would do ... except I'm going down the pub instead. :pint::bum::facepalm:

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(Be advised. Bunker is now fully prepped.)
 

Lucy

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Don't the Co op themselves own the building? I'm sure it was their pension fund...
 

Carole

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If my comments come across as "selfish and rude" to anyone on here I can only apologise and henceforth reconsider my activity on here.
I could add that deteriorating mental health with going nowhere and seeing no one for fifteen months hasn't helped.
I had hoped to mainly offer facts and reminiscences on here rather than opinions and it had certainly never been my intention to "impose my views" on anyone here.

Look @Mudgie

I think that most people on this forum would be genuinely concerned to hear that you have mental health difficulties and have struggled during lockdown.
Most people on here are genuinely friendly and supportive to each other and to newcomers.

This forum offers so much, and can be an absolute boon, but it’s about meeting people half way, it’s about listening, it’s about giving as much as receiving. It’s about consideration and respect.

We know that you like pubs, but please keep your thoughts about pubs to pubs threads. There are enough people on here to join you in a discussion.

If you go on another thread, it’s acceptable to “like” that person’s post, it’s an acknowledgment that you are appreciating what someone has done that day.

If you try to engage with other people with their chosen subject, perhaps ask questions and learn something about the subject then you will get more forum friends.

You aren’t the only person on this forum living on their own, but those others choose to engage in lots of subjects and have made lots of forum friends.

I’m just really trying to help here, we want to welcome you, but please meet us halfway. Join us in other discussions, chat with us, stop talking about pubs all the time.
 

rudie111

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Yes indeed. I regrettably got a bit carried away there.
Getting back on topic to the Co-op Department Store I've thought that though that's gone the Co-op still has a large presence in Stafford.
In the 1970s I remember them having four grocery stores - Stone Road, Littleworth, Weeping Cross, Rising Brook - but that's more than doubled now with First Avenue, Holmcroft Road, Beacon Business Park, Baswich Lane, Silkmore Lane and maybe more I don't know of as I'm not really one for spending my time going shopping.
And that reminds me how shopping trends have changed in recent years, the building of edge of town 'hyperstores' giving way to smaller localer stores, some new builds and others conversions of other buildings. the only example of which I can think of being the George and Fox in Penkridge by Sainsbury's ( and I only know of that with Mrs Mudgie stopping off there for a few things on our way home from eating out in the Swan at Whiston ).
Getting back on topic to the Co-Op they even seem to be expanding their Undertaking business in Stafford with I think premises in Salter Street as well as Silkmore Lane and Stone Road.


Ah the Fox. The only place in the village that would serve us when we were 16/17 :pint:. Damn it, I've been pulled in!
 

zebidee

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I'm struggling to find who to contact regarding the pong that I assume is coming from the old co-op building. It's really marked around stafford street /princes street.



I was hoping there was an easy environmental health link from sbc website but I find myself going in circles.



Anyone else been down that way and noticed the smell?
 

joshua

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Tumble weed

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The roof needs replacing and water has poured through causing the ceiling inside to cave in, which has resulted in mould all inside , top that off with dead pigeons who somehow got in and died in there and the broken windows, and there lies your answer.
 

littleme

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I'm struggling to find who to contact regarding the pong that I assume is coming from the old co-op building. It's really marked around stafford street /princes street.



I was hoping there was an easy environmental health link from sbc website but I find myself going in circles.



Anyone else been down that way and noticed the smell?
Not the smell, but the amount of dead bluebottle in there is amazing.... Something must be really rotting.
 

littleme

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I was going to say sumat similar, but thought better of it. Didn't want to be shot down in flames.
I was waiting for the carer the other day while he visited the bank, & looking through (nosing) the windows that face the barbers/tattoo shop/sewing meanders & the cash converter, there were so many dead & dying flys in there, lots of the ceiling looks like it's fallen through too, such a shame.
 
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