May 6, 201412 yr Now that Tesco is starting a car boot sale on Sundays, do you not thing it is a good idea to re-open the public toilet again in the car park. In fact why was it ever closed down in the first place?
May 6, 201412 yr might have been used as a cottage..lol..one thing for sure is..if its a public toilet it should be open for the public..theres nowt worse than wandering round the shops or market and to be busting a gut for the bog and find out there is none..pubs and cafes are for customers only and the last thing you want is to be dilly dallying around with the tortises head popping oot !!
May 6, 201412 yr The Toilets were owned by the county council and to my best knowledge still are, (they may be Tesco's now after the sale of the gap site and car park.)They were closed after Tesco asked for them to be closed as they saw no point in them as the building of the new superstore (which would have toilets) was still on the cards at the time.
May 7, 201412 yr Its Tesco's land and the deal was the new store would have publicly accessible toilets. No new store no toilets! This toilet block had only just been refurbed shorty before it was closed. We will soon see the closed ones at Attlee Park demolished. Bit surprised at Tesco thinking a car boot on a Sunday would help them regain lost trade?
May 7, 201412 yr Tesco don't stock enough variety of goods for the Vixen to do her weekly shop there, so she drives to Asda Blyth where she can get a whole range of goods that are unavailable in Tesco's Bedlington store. We then have Tesco wondering why they don't have the footfall, Elementary Dear Watson!
May 7, 201412 yr Author Okay folks, starting with Presto's in the 70s - name the supermarkets that have been on that site!!! SomerfieldFine Fare?Kwik Save?Safeway. Anymore!!!!
May 7, 201412 yr We use Tesco regularly for bits and bobs but do our main shopping elsewhere. I find the stuff we use overly expensive at Tesco e.g. all of the fresh veg.
May 8, 201412 yr I wasn't able to see it first hand but one of the staff told me there were 3 car booters there last Sunday? If its hoped to reinvigorate the store like that then might as well call it the CO OP!
May 10, 201412 yr Okay folks, starting with Presto's in the 70s - name the supermarkets that have been on that site!!! SomerfieldFine Fare?Kwik Save?Safeway. Anymore!!!!Co - Op
May 11, 201412 yr I meant the supermarket site, Keefy, not old Milne House. image-1-bedlington-nostalgia-126214715.jpgAh well, close
May 11, 201412 yr Is it just me or does anyone else look at that picture Keithy has just put up and wonder about how well the town has developed and prospered?
May 11, 201412 yr Author It must be just you, Malcolm, because I think Bedlington looks better in that picture - which is in the seventies - because we had shops and hopes for the future, etc etc etc. (PS The photo isn't mine, someone on this site posted it a while back.)
May 11, 201412 yr Author Sorry, Malcolm, I should have known better. It's hard to tell how something is said in its written form. I proffer my grovelling apology and head off into the corner.
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