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[Gwylan]

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Same location where they got permission to build a bigger store, then came Tesco reappraising their stores (IIRC they built one somewhere and never opened it), so it was going to a Dunelm Mill and others but covid came along and killed that. What would have been odd is if it got refused, it's to the north west of the town presently only with an Aldi and a Co-op. Asda and Waitrose are either side of the town centre whilst Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Lidl are to the south east round to the east. The benefit if this one actually gets built should be less cross town traffic, obviously offset by those from other parts going to it.

But people from Harrogate going to Tesco. Doesn't seem right somehow.
What about all those common people that it will attract to the town with its vulgar "bogoff" and so on.?

 

[Reynard]

I need a

 

[Reynard]

Short Circuit magazine's lousy sense of timing strikes yet again, with a race meeting report published three MONTHS after the event. No wonder I couldn't bloody find it first time around...

OTOH, tardy as it is, the report in SC (written by Annie Neal, now Mark Webber's OH) is much more succinct and professional than the one published in Motoring News. Although the bit about Paul pinching Pete Stevens' female entourage had me in a fit of giggles.

P.S. I got to know Pete later in his career when he raced Pickup trucks, as by then, I was reporting on the series for, you guessed it, Short Circuit magazine...

 

[Reynard]

Time I headed off to the Land of Nod via Wooden Hill and Hot Bath.

Nunnight one and all xxx

 

[raleighnut]

Same location where they got permission to build a bigger store, then came Tesco reappraising their stores (IIRC they built one somewhere and never opened it), so it was going to a Dunelm Mill and others but covid came along and killed that. What would have been odd is if it got refused, it's to the north west of the town presently only with an Aldi and a Co-op. Asda and Waitrose are either side of the town centre whilst Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Lidl are to the south east round to the east. The benefit if this one actually gets built should be less cross town traffic, obviously offset by those from other parts going to it.

That is nothing, here's something really silly.

In Enderby (where I'm from originally) there was a large shop that was initially a DIY shop and also a large Co-op department store that sold everything from Buttons to Furniture with Clothes, Washing Machines, Carpets/Flooring, TV's, etc but in the 80's all that closed leaving only the food part and the Co-op renting out the rest of the premises that they had built to other businesses meanwhile after many changes the DIY store became a Somerfield. Then the Co-op purchased/took over Somerfield so now it is possible to stand in front of one Co-op and look across the road and up the hill a bit and see another Co-op. I don't think there are plans to sell either building as that would mean the former DIY store would become a prime site for Lidl/Aldi and the other one was built by the Cooperative society sometime in the 1930's but back then Enderby was very much a Co-op small town with various premises owned by CWS (Cooperative Wholesale Society)
In seperate building throughout Enderby there were;

• Boot and Shoe factory (employing @400 people)
• Department Store and Food Hall
• Dairy
• Garage where they maintained and charged the Milkfloats
• Bank
• Butchers
• Greengrocers
• Bakery
• Entertainment Venue (a large wooden building seating @250 people where Plays/Panto's and even once a Circus along with local bands and dances there once the seating had been stacked and removed.

In short you could live there and never need to go anywhere else, Oh and back then there were 7 pubs and 4 clubs and a Cinema.

 

[biggs682]

A bleary eyed morning
Still dark outside

 

[biggs682]

That is nothing, here's something really silly.

In Enderby (where I'm from originally) there was a large shop that was initially a DIY shop and also a large Co-op department store that sold everything from Buttons to Furniture with Clothes, Washing Machines, Carpets/Flooring, TV's, etc but in the 80's all that closed leaving only the food part and the Co-op renting out the rest of the premises that they had built to other businesses meanwhile after many changes the DIY store became a Somerfield. Then the Co-op purchased/took over Somerfield so now it is possible to stand in front of one Co-op and look across the road and up the hill a bit and see another Co-op. I don't think there are plans to sell either building as that would mean the former DIY store would become a prime site for Lidl/Aldi and the other one was built by the Cooperative society sometime in the 1930's but back then Enderby was very much a Co-op small town with various premises owned by CWS (Cooperative Wholesale Society)
In seperate building throughout Enderby there were;

• Boot and Shoe factory (employing @400 people)
• Department Store and Food Hall
• Dairy
• Garage where they maintained and charged the Milkfloats
• Bank
• Butchers
• Greengrocers
• Bakery
• Entertainment Venue (a large wooden building seating @250 people where Plays/Panto's and even once a Circus along with local bands and dances there once the seating had been stacked and removed.

In short you could live there and never need to go anywhere else, Oh and back then there were 7 pubs and 4 clubs and a Cinema.

It always amazed me that a Co op in one town would accept your members card but other stores within a 5 mile radius wouldn't as they were part of a different branch of the Co op .
I can remember having a conversation about it once with a lady at the check out and she was as confused about as I was .

 

[biggs682]

First cuppa went down well.
Doesn't look like we have had much if any rain last night as per forecast.

 

[Hebe]

It’s a bit grey here today. My is disappointingly empty.

 

[PeteXXX]

My leccy & gas is with Octopus, previously COOP. I noeget my divvy as a deduction from my utility bill.

BTW: I'm almost up.

 

[Illaveago]

It always amazed me that a Co op in one town would accept your members card but other stores within a 5 mile radius wouldn't as they were part of a different branch of the Co op .
I can remember having a conversation about it once with a lady at the check out and she was as confused about as I was .

I can still remember my mum's number .

 

[Illaveago]

Morning .
It is grey and wet here this morning . It's been raining.

 

[Illaveago]

She's right !
"The time is now!"
I just looked at my watch !
Mind you it might be a bit fast !

 

[Deleted member 1258]

She's right !
"The time is now!"
I just looked at my watch !
Mind you it might be a bit fast !

We have three clocks here downstairs, they all tell a slightly different time.

 

[biggs682]

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