What a thoroughly depressing place..........

The rebuilding process started years ago and never got completed. Which is why many major high street retailers have moved out only to make way for discount book shops, pound shops, people selling e-cigs and inevitably Christmas shops. I believe there I refurb work going on in the Alhambra so I suppose that is only temporarily like it is. As for the people, I used to ask myself the same question every morning when I worked in town. I used to work in Corals on market street and it was the same faces every morning. There were 2 sets of people who used to come in, retired gentleman and workshy scroungers. The former would place bets and watch the racing whilst the latter would ask for free coffee and try to borrow money from the former before telling me how they almost had a career as a professional footballer

 

Yes it's better than Rotherham but they've got Parkgate and Meadowhall, no-one shops in the town centre.

 

The people make the place. If more people supported it and spent money in it rather than slagging it off then it'd get better.

It's not perfect but it's absolutely not the **** hole those who like to put down everything about the Town claim it to be.

 

I work in Headingley, is it classed has highly desirable? It's hip, aye but its hip with house's with steel bars covering their doors and windows. Work mates see it as a bit rough. Chapel Allerton's a bit more upmarket.

 

Since moving to the town centre just over 2 years ago it's growing on me. Really impressed with the area around the town hall and all the work that's been going on there, will look really good once the college is up and the rest of the paving is finished in front of the gym. Once the rest of the town has caught up with the plans for the next few years l think it will draw people back in and get them spending in it again. The multi-screen cinemas complex and restaurants will go a long way in bringing folk back in.

 

if you really want to see a shithole matey.....

then go and take a look at Newport in Wales.

 

Re: if you really want to see a shithole matey.....

is Newport as bad as Port Talbot?

 

worse

 

Re: worse

it must be bad then!

 

Well i thought i was quite polite considering Manlito's outburst but i guess it's one rule for one lot and one rule for others.

Administrators perogative i guess.

 

Correct

come on Barnsley !

 

i used to do a lot of trading in leeds,from cross green up as far as stanningley using various wholesalers and cash and carry's.I couldn't believe what I was looking at with doors and windows protected by steel bars,not just in run down areas but in more up market places as well.I've been in business just shy of 18 years and when I first started out I wondered how long it would be before these bars appeared in Barnsley,thankfully they havnt yet.
Having said this,it doesn't detract from the fact that Barnsley town centre is *****,pits closures and out of town shopping have seen to this,simple as that.But according to surveys shoppers are now beginning to shop locally again,so maybe now is the time to get the town centre redeveloped and offer some incentives to get retailers on board.Only drawback for me is that it will be just another 'cloned' high street with just the usual suspects doing the retailing,independent traders simply cant afford to set up shop anymore.

 

IMO the council would be better concentrating on market and small shops and encourage people to fill them with incentives and reasonable rates etc..
Get the market right and rest will fall into place imo .
Large shops only want out of town complexes or towns cities that will sell their souls to get them in, fek em I say, let em avoid their taxes and pay slave wages elsewhere IMO.let's concentrate on the smaller local retailers and market places and if we get it right and the surrounding areas such as the town hall area and outside cafe culture etc we'll piss the big retail parks hands down. I'm with MadMark on this one

Come On Barnsley

 

Lived there 5 years with no bother but take your point. The student streets were the number one burglary hotspot in the country for a time and as a lawyer I was regularly prosecuting or defending cases from roundabout.
Decent bars and restaurants and obviously great for watching cricket but not somewhere I'd want to settle.

 

Amazingly I find myself agreeing with thereev. The post was nothing to do with what may happen aesthetically with the town centre but merely with the depressing state it's in now. It IS depressing in Barnsley. I am a Barnsley bloke, have lived here all my life and it IS much worse than when I was younger. It's simply has a sad 'vibe' about it these days for the kinds of reasons thereev mentioned. thereev was, I think, merely echoing that point.

 

It seems the majority are not in agreement with those views .its individual opinions but most don't feel the doom and gloom that yourself and thereev feels

 

The spokesman for the market readers also happens to be a councillor

 

I'm with you 100% marlon,just because I think the town centre is ***** now doesn't mean I don't want a complete overhaul and a vision for the future.I'd love to see an outside café culture and a host of small retailers,but the council have to be able to move with the times on this one,i mean you can even stand outside boozers at the moment,so they are going to have to cut some slack with the licencing.
I drove up eccleshall road last week(at least I think its eccleshall,the one past the old stones brewery),here people are sat outside cafe's and bars and its a different world to Barnsley,theres still plenty of independent retailers selling allsorts,i'd love to see Barnsley like that,however those retailers in Sheffield have been established a long time,its a different kettle of fish starting from scratch,especially in Barnsley where the vast majority will only go to supermarkets.

as for market traders being happy with proceedings,those I know are ready for throwing the towel in because the building of supermarkets in the town centre has shafted them big time.

 

Comments like these always make me laugh.
Why shouldn't folk be able to talk to each other in their native tongue
When you go abroad do you speak to anyone in your party in the language of the country your in or do you all continue speaking english no matter where you are, be that in public.
Narrow mindedness at its best or what.