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Posted:
12.Jan 2007 - 12:07
Anyway, I thought I'd make a list of the fantastic shops our town used to have:
[list]The Model Shop - top of Causewayhead
The Joke Shop - middle of Causewayhead
Lanxons sport shop - middle of Causewayhead
Safi's - forerunner of Kettle's Corner - bottom of Causewayhead
The Coffee Pot - bottom of Causewayhead
The Oven Door
The Market Place - top of Chapel Street
Knees - Market Jew Street
Parkers - Pz's very own department store - Market Jew Street
[/list:u]
I'll think of some more but there's a few to be going on with
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Posted:
12.Jan 2007 - 12:46
And just closing due to retirement - Marchants.
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Posted:
12.Jan 2007 - 13:03
There was a record shop that Mike Sagar Fenton had on the Arcade Steps, had a lot of punk stuff.
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12.Jan 2007 - 13:19
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Posted:
12.Jan 2007 - 16:37
The reply he received isn't particularly helpful, but it was, "Competition in the grocery sector is a matter for the independent competition authorities and not the DTI. The Office of Fair Trading identified below-cost selling as an issue that could distort competition when it referred the grocery market to the Competition Commission for a market inquiry.
It is for the Competition Commission to make an assessment and decide if any action is necessary."
To quote a New Economics Foundation document, "....it seems as that another mass extinction event may be occurring too – one affecting the character of the places we live, and the diversity at the heart of our culture, whether films, music, books or other media."
Our town centres are rapidly turning into 'clone towns' where diversity is destroyed - some of the more subtle threats are from the high-street ‘micro-format’ supermarket stores. So apart from all the mobile phone shops we are getting the superstores setting up their town centre outlets e.g. Sainsbury’s Local outlets, Tesco Express stores and Co-op town centre stores all wanting to use their corporate image for their shop fronts. Small shop owners can't compete with their economic clout.
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Posted:
12.Jan 2007 - 23:36
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13.Jan 2007 - 01:18
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Posted:
14.Jan 2007 - 11:16
"Ron the Cons" second hand shop!
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Posted:
14.Jan 2007 - 16:11
Within a year, the main street store was closed. When asked about the agreement, Tescos said it wasn't a written contract so they could do what they liked.
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Posted:
14.Jan 2007 - 16:12
Old Hudson Smith (the person, not the shop) is now a Tory councillor.
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Posted:
14.Jan 2007 - 23:57
Wasn't the pub in Bread street called The Crown. There was a pub in the Boots side of market Jew street that was pulled down [I think] I thought that was the Victoria Inn. Been away a long time. But have happy memories of the pub life in Penzance in the 60s. Anyone remember Dazzes cafe near the station, and the Railway Inn, now the long boat?
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Posted:
15.Jan 2007 - 00:01
Tescos are satan! Anyone shopping there (except in emergencies
) should be ashamed of themselves
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Posted:
15.Jan 2007 - 00:16
That has to be the best quote of 2007 so far..
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19.Jan 2007 - 22:52
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Posted:
19.Jan 2007 - 23:00
I tried some of their organic vegetables, tasted just the same as the watery non-organic crap they sell; compared to the stuff we have delivered from Riverford Organics from Devon, it's a long way off the mark..
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19.Jan 2007 - 23:06
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Posted:
19.Jan 2007 - 23:20
Cusgarne Organics in Cornwall, in my opinion, offer the best food you will ever taste. They grow amazing vegetables and also do a range of 'Demeter' grown food which is like a whole other level above organic. Food that gives you 'life energy' in abundance. Check them out, and if you live in their delivery area, try some of their Demeter reared beef.
http://www.chycor.co.uk/business/cusgarne/
If there's anyone in the Newquay area, within a ten mile radius or so, who would like organic food delivered, then get in touch, as they will consider our area only if there is enough interest to start a new delivery round. You won't regret it...
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10.Mar 2007 - 12:01
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Posted:
10.Mar 2007 - 20:47
The newsagents on Taroveor Road has just closed as well
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10.Mar 2007 - 21:18
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Posted:
11.Mar 2007 - 01:44
That newsagent sold comics when I was little...& I noticed it was open last week, saying to my mate as he drove by "bloody hell, I thought that place would've long gone"
My town's disappearing bit by bit.. (Pocock's, wasn't it?)
I'm Cornish; feel free to argue the point with me (for what it might achieve!)
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Posted:
11.Mar 2007 - 17:13
Apparently the last people to be running it where a bit workshy. Meanwhile down the road there's a new corner shop where they stay open until late. The end!
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Posted:
29.Nov 2007 - 14:39
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5JDqdnGQZ34