[QUOTE=lindylou;77441]
Originally Posted by
Suburban
ha, I'm not a total snob
I did work in St John's market many years ago.
During the 1970s when it was thriving and a busy place. All the stalls were open and doing a roaring trade, the upstairs was in full swing, noisy and bright and there was always music playing from the record stall. I remember when the market would be really crowded and there would be queues of people waiting to be served. It was a good community among the stall holders too .
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The market never picked up after the last fire.
I can't understand why they left the upstairs part to fall into such decline and remain empty and boarded up.
The market is not just a shadow of it's former self, but hardly recognisable form the days when I worked there.
As I said, It's just so depressing now.
Yeh I agree Lindy, and ive never thought of you as a snob. However, my feelings on the market are that it is simply a victim of changing fashions and tastes. In the 70's it was very popular, my old gran whose 94 still went there once a week until last year when she went in a home.
However, thats the point, it tends to appeal to the older generation, young girls are more likely to shop in the Met Quarter orr the Trafford Centre. Nowt wrong with markets though, they can be 'reinvented' with the right efforts look at the continental markets in Williamson Square.
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