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Tenuous link here, my dad's old joiners shop was an old canal building where the land rover garage is now. It ran at the back of the property. I watched them take out the spinkwell lock , the remains of the last one.

 

I moved to King's Road in 1976 when Spinkwell lock was still there, I wish I had taken some photos of it
I remember there was talk of it being rebuilt into the car dealers that was built on top of it, never happened though.
I wonder where all the stone went

 

I live in Wakefield (obvs) and to be honest I like it as a City to live in. I was in Bradford for 23 years and I’ve been in Wakefield for 23 years. Best move I ever made. The city centre has a couple of rough spots, but it’s not bad overall. We have the Trinity Walk shopping centre, rhe Ridings is slowly recovering and is featuring a few nice independent shops.

We have good restaurants and some nice real ale pubs. I feel quite at home in Wakefield, and there are nice places on the outskirts, eg Newmillerdam, Hepworth Gallery, Pugneys etc, as well as great transport links, train, buses into Leeds, M1 and M62 easily accessible

It’s got a lot going for it and I’d be hard pressed to move, at least until the kids have left school. Then it’s North Yorkshire for us!

 

I had no idea what it meant tbh

 

I know the way Gora is used. And feel tensions growing in communities.

 

Its been a shit hole for about 30 years

 

What’s the reason for closure? No space?

 

Where do you live Kev? I thought Truss had quit politics? I’m not in touch with politics much as it winds me up too much

 

Not sure if I posted this on this thread or another but if you think Bradford is bad you should try Wakefield. I went there to look at a possible job and I’ll be honest it was shocking. I have walked round Bradford and Halifax, neither of which are great(excluding Piece Hall which somehow still needs public subsidy) but Wakefield centre took it to a whole new level

 

And City of Culture.

 

So much for "levelling up" !

 

That's because it's not a link it's a screenshot. Sorry!

 

The last few times I've been into town I've noticed that Scumbag Square (between bottom of Sunbridge Rd and bottom of Ivegate) has been relatively clear of erm ...erm ...well.....Scumbags.

 

I caught a bus on Market St today, 10 minutes later it had not managed to get out due to the latest roadworks outside Barclays bank.
Absolutely useless temporary lights combined with every bus blocking Market St because of the Interchange farce.
Why anyone will want to visit the City centre ever again beats me, especially when all the public transport will be barred from it.
Only passed 3 beggars though, so that's an improvement.

 

As someone commented in T&A, the cheap rent deal must have ended.
No positive spin to put on this one, a little Market up Darley St is the best offering the clowncil can manage.

 

and the one opened fairly recently in the White Rose centre is huge and very impressive for a M&S

 

Would not surprise me if Boots doesn't follow it out when the lease is up in a year or so, keep the Forster Square one going

 

And yet for all that, which I agree with, there is a very good chance that Labour will fail yet again to gain power at the next election. Why? What is about Labour that people just can't trust? Are they so permanently trained as a party that the country needs a new type of opposition?

 

We’ll have to see. Most polls are predicting a comfortable Labour majority at the next General Election. But we’ve seen them snatch defeat from the jaws of victory too often in the past to take that for granted.
Don’t forget that, a) most people are pretty ignorant when it comes to economics; b) most of the press is lined up against them and c) Labour’s core support is concentrated in a smaller number of large areas whereas the Tories’ support is spread more evenly over a larger number of constituencies, so it’s always harder for Labour to achieve a majority under first past the post.