Hows Your Main Street Looking?

Biggins

rainbowtrout wrote: »

I live in Boyle. About 80 businesses/offices/shops/pubs etc currently open. 40 empty/derelict business premises. 1000 signing on at the dole office and the population is only 2500. Not to mind plenty of ghost estates. Main St is dead.

Wow, thats really bad!

bonzodog2

Biggins wrote: »

Well apparently...


I suppose that one use for what will be 24+ empty windows on a main st
(they are also coming down to record my wife and group pole dancing for "Operation Transformation" on a Wed' night soon - but who wants to see that! )

Synchronized formation underwater pole dancing I hope ?

rainbowtrout

Biggins wrote: »

Wow, thats really bad!

Yep, one of the biggest employers Green Isle had a fish factory here but it closed down 2 years ago leaving about 80 out of work, that's a huge number for a town of this size. There is no industry here whatsoever. Every week another business seems to close. I work in the local secondary school and we have about 40 staff (teaching and admin) and we're probably one of the biggest employers. That and the local SuperValu.

stovelid

Emiliano Salty Bugle wrote: »

Which town?

The one that's the hub of a variable number of concentric suburbs?

ScumLord

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Yep, one of the biggest employers Green Isle had a fish factory here but it closed down 2 years ago leaving about 80 out of work, that's a huge number for a town of this size. There is no industry here whatsoever. Every week another business seems to close. I work in the local secondary school and we have about 40 staff (teaching and admin) and we're probably one of the biggest employers. That and the local SuperValu.

Whats happening to fishing in Europe is really annoying me lately. The European Union has been a terrible thing for fishing not only in Ireland but throughout the world. It's staggering how badly the EU is failing us when it comes to fish stocks. They took fishing out of the hands of small sustainable fishermen and handed it to large fishing corps that over fish and will have wiped out fish internationally before the end of the century probably within 40 years. The EU will be responsible for destroying fish stocks throughout Europe.

ejmaztec

A few miles down the road in Listowel it's the same story, except I think they're only down to about 30 pubs, and more than the required number of betting shops. It was ironic that when the ACC bank closed some time ago, Bruce Betting moved in. Some might say that it was a betting shop when the bank was there.

I think that there are over 3000 signing on in the town, a bundle of empty shops, and a vast display of for sale and to let signs all over the place.

The council could change the pay-parking rules to persuade people to spend some money in the town, which is what a lot of traders have asked for, but the council reckons they can't afford to (which is probably bollocks).

chopperbyrne

On the bus going through Newry the other day and heard the comment "This place makes Dublin look like Dubai."

Don't think I've ever seen so many closed down shops since the old Tallaght Shopping Centre after the Square opened.

Corruptedmorals

There's a Polish shop that keeps shutting down and reopening...think an estate agents might be gone, a pub went but is up and running with new ownership..and the travel agents is gone. Much better than the shopping centre I work in, only the anchors are safe..there's only half occupancy on the ground floor alone.

vangoz

Ours is still all cracked and broken, we had a town meeting to discuss what to do but ended up building a Monorail instead.

Mono=One
Rail=Rail

cantankerous

My main street has been suffering since one of those "head shops" opened up. Just yesterday I saw a young woman walking into one of them:eek:!!!

ejmaztec

cantankerous wrote: »

My main street has been suffering since one of those "head shops" opened up. Just yesterday I saw a young woman walking into one of them:eek:!!!

Was she badly injured?:eek:

CR 7

Can't tell, Google street view isn't working yet.

brummytom

Here in Lichfield, the main street's mainly still there - just one shop vacant; always packed.

Where I used to live in Brum, the main street there is in a terrible way - half the shops are closed and the only ones surviving are large chains (like Greggs, the Co-op etc.); and budget shops/Poundlands.

ejmaztec

brummytom wrote: »

Here in Lichfield, the main street's mainly still there - just one shop vacant; always packed.

Where I used to live in Brum, the main street there is in a terrible way - half the shops are closed and the only ones surviving are large chains (like Greggs, the Co-op etc.); and budget shops/Poundlands.

Those Lichfield people are so rich, they use rolls of Sterling toilet paper.

Acoshla

Mine isn't so bad, I think about 3/4 businesses closed in the last year which isn't bad considering it's a small town, but the ones to suffer were all long established family run businesses which is a shame. The crappy old pubs, betting shops and tacky euro shops are still flyin :rolleyes:

brummytom

ejmaztec wrote: »

Those Lichfield people are so rich, they use rolls of Sterling toilet paper.

True

ascanbe

SeaFields wrote: »

The guy that owns Corky's shoe shops was on Matt Cooper last week. I don't want to venture a guess now as I may misquote him but it was jaw-dropping when he said how much he has to pay in rent every week for his stores.

Developers win once again :mad:

Is that the fella from 'Life goes on'?

Xluna

Jesus,these thread topics get more depressing everyday.

K-9

chopperbyrne wrote: »

On the bus going through Newry the other day and heard the comment "This place makes Dublin look like Dubai."

Don't think I've ever seen so many closed down shops since the old Tallaght Shopping Centre after the Square opened.

Similar happening to Strabane. Asda and the retail parks are booming, taking away from the town.

Athlone seems to be doing OK at the moment, the two main shopping centres are almost full (the third one has been allowed to die after Texas left it!) most of the high street is still open. But have seen a few close in recent weeks, just hope it isn't the start of a mass closure.