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Post by boozysuzi on Jan 27, 2011 20:02:12 GMT
the owner of the army and navy stores in west street is soon going to be shutting up shop too ! and although its not on the high street its yet another empty shop !! not looking good for the town !
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Post by grumpy on Jan 30, 2011 13:15:47 GMT
rates are too expensive  shame for berwick, they missed the boat when they wanted to develop the quayside and the potteries also joes old shop at the bottom of hide hill but the civic soc. had other ideas ie let them rot and decay, i was led to believe there was developers ready to put their money in to these projects but whoever it was listened to the civic soc. ie: prehistoric soc. remember when they had the cruise ships stopping off spending money in the town they even made a jetty for them, that all stopped too now they just sail by  |
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Post by boozysuzi on Jan 30, 2011 14:24:39 GMT
Whitehaven was on tv last week and every year they have a day on their quayside wi the place heaving wi visitors--loads of stalls ,sailing events and all sorts of other things .Now weve got a quayside,could we not have something similar ? look what a good show Spittal put on last year , but Berwick does nowt!!
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Post by grumpy on Jan 31, 2011 13:24:20 GMT
civic soc.probably suzi  |
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Post by boozysuzi on Jan 31, 2011 20:26:39 GMT
shud the civic society not be made to buy these places theywant to save and do them up themselfs . joes corners getting to be a total disgrace!!
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Post by grumpy on Feb 1, 2011 12:19:04 GMT
i went to one of their meetings just to see and they were all auld  |
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Post by boozysuzi on Feb 1, 2011 23:50:20 GMT
how do you get on the committee ?lol ;D |
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Post by grumpy on Feb 2, 2011 12:24:04 GMT
i think you have to be on a zimmer frame lol  |
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Post by samsplint on Feb 3, 2011 11:39:34 GMT
The civic soc are a bunch of unelected self appointed numpties who think they have the best interests of Berwick in their hands, well I'm sorry to disappoint them they dont! If it was left up to them we would stiil be using horse and carts in Berwick.
While I agree that development in the town must be in keeping, they take it to far. They even go into older houses for sale and take pics so they can try and lay down the law about what you can do when you buy them.
These are the same group of people who think that the lights on the railway bridge are going to bring bus loads of visitors to look at them and it will be a benifit to the town! When the lights are on who is open to benifit?
Rant over
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Post by boozysuzi on Feb 3, 2011 13:07:17 GMT
you could be right there Sam .dont think i could name 1 member of the civic society anyway ! probably all interlopers to the town !!!!!
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Post by grumpy on Feb 3, 2011 16:54:49 GMT
i know one of them and she lives in chirnside or duns  |
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Post by emre on Feb 4, 2011 19:37:54 GMT
give it 2 or 3 years and there will be no more pubs, £3-40p a pint by next month due to sky high barley prices, kinda makes sense now , the reason for the great grain robbery 2 years ago lol
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Post by boozysuzi on Jul 31, 2012 19:49:35 GMT
Another empty shop on the high street !! Julian Graves (health foods ) appears to have shut down now .
its gonna cost a bomb for all these false shop fronts theyre gonna be putting up !!!
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Post by grumpy on Aug 1, 2012 11:11:15 GMT
somebody told me last week julian graves was closing down |
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Post by tweedsider on Aug 1, 2012 18:34:33 GMT
Twenty or Thirty years ago, a man from Scremerston used to write long letters to the Advertiser regularly, about how the town would suffer if we got out of town supermarkets, and the town centre would die as a result of the Doughnut effect.
Oh how we laughed at his diatribes - it would never happen here, this is Berwick - we'll always have a High Street.
We gave up Parking on the new bridge, pedestrianised Marygate, allowed the Bus Station to be sold for a bag of magic beans, ........
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