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Wasn’t there a men’s shop down Butchers Row called “Graham’s”?
Improvements to the market place? I suppose that’s open to opinion. If like me you are of a certain age you will remember the market place as it was, if you around 20 years old or so you won’t and there in lies the problem.
I personally don’t think removing a large number of parking places laying some flagstones, placing a couple of what would I suppose could be called modern street furniture with links to “Newton” and “hey presto” improvement. It doesn’t really work like that.
Sometimes things should be left alone, particularly if it doesn’t need interfering with. I suppose trying to create the “cafe culture mentality “ failed in this instance and as for the expense of the “Newton” art works well that’s a another thing altogether. Which if you ask the person or persons responsible for the “Improvement “ will tell you that it all was “excellent value for money to the council tax payer”
Councils are notoriously famed for stupid ideas and spending lots of money on trying to create areas that promote cultural thinking by the masses, In this instance I believe they have failed.
Should have saved the money for something more worthy.
Before Grahams it was Dixon & Parker, where all the kids got their school uniforms.