rosco

Lived in bedlington since 1990 and started thinking how many shops have closed since then.....William low,Tait's cafe,car parts shop next to Tait's,Forrester's,jewellers shop,women's dress shop,Lloyd's,HSBC,Barclay's,mercantile universal,northern rock,dry cleaners and the shop next door,spend and save,coop dept,northern electric,British gas,Johnsons shoe shop,the video den,Halifax e/a,shell garage,ford garage,lighting shop and that's just the ones I can remember.....in there place we have a few decent replacements,houses/flats.....but how many takeaways nail/hairdressers/beauty shops do we need

Don't get me wrong almost any replacement is welcome but you can see a decline in quality.To be fair a large chunk of the closed shops etc are a result of online/shopping habits

Almost forgot 3 public toilet blocks

As a final note I see the shoe shop is opening as a fireplace shop

it means a vote for lib dems from me as they are the only party with any chance of catching labour in wansbeck.......labours majority has dropped from 22k 1997 13k 2001 11k 2005 7k 2010.....65% of vote in 1997 45% in 2010    .....SO HERES HOPING

Blyth like Ashington has to keep the labour voters happy......... what better way than to have ANOTHER market square/street regeneration for both plus leisure centre council offices transferring from Morpeth and  various other initiatives......Ian Lavery must be licking his lips in anticipation of a another  all be it smaller labour victory

Anybody know what's going on in the old shoe shop as there were a couple of joiners in there today

try doing this at karaoke

rumour is its now going to be flats once plans have been altered from original care/retirement home......which means it will be a cheap bodge job 

Maggs,

The population figures at the last census were something like 29,000 odd for Bedlingtonshire and 31,000 odd for Ashington. These were the only two I totted up becasue I though with all the new builds we have seen over the last few years we might have been on par or even more populated than Ashington. Still with only one or two thousand difference the facilites going into one area and absolutly nothing for the other area cannot be justified.

How many regenerations of the town centres have Blyth and ashington had over the last 20 yrs

Latest news from tesco is Gregg's will be moving shop because they share a fire exit...and tesco will have to pay them to relocate

The shop was making a profit but the council wanted them to repair the old coop building which is in a right old state inside the upper floors

Tesco bedlington closing....will be announced at 12.30...staff were told first thing this morning