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#21 ronpowellsbutler

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Posted 11 November 2019 - 11:36 AM

All very interesting - thanks - but my point was about comparing Chesterfield with Chesterfield, not anywhere else.

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Posted 11 November 2019 - 11:43 AM

Thing is, you could say the same about every town up down the country, there's been a steady decline everywhere since the digital started

Digital age started.. Sorry no edit function..
Maybe 1 day BB will join in with the updated version🤔🤔

all we are saying, is give us ...a goal, or 2+

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Posted 11 November 2019 - 11:43 AM

I ventured into town yesterday lunchtime taking advantage of the free parking pass residents get, its actually proved quite handy for the free post 3pm parking the rest of the week as well. It was actually quite pleasant and there was a nice buzz about the place. Now there had been the remembrance day stuff going off and I only ventured from the car park next to the Pig & Pump, over to M&S and back but it all felt quite nice. Suspect the occasion, the weather, the day all played a part mind you.

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Posted 11 November 2019 - 11:50 AM

here's how Altrincham revitalise its market area
http://www.altrinchammarket.co.uk/
If anyone at Chesterfield council reads this, it is def. worth a visit

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Posted 11 November 2019 - 12:39 PM

ronpowellsbutler, on 10 November 2019 - 10:10 AM, said:

Plus, I only saw one CFC badge all afternoon and that was mine.

To be fair the club right now is a pathetic, worthless and embarrassing $h!t show so people dont really want to show it off.

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Posted 11 November 2019 - 04:16 PM

[quote name='Exharboroughspireite' timestamp='1573403421' post='1494082']<br />There are many more town centres that are in a worse state than ours.Mansfield

There aint no Soul left in these old shoes... since you've been gone

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Posted 12 November 2019 - 09:37 AM

AllTownArentWe, on 11 November 2019 - 12:39 PM, said:

To be fair the club right now is a pathetic, worthless and embarrassing $h!t show so people dont really want to show it off.

I and many others of our generation still wear our lapel badges with pride, as we have done for years, reflecting the pleasure and unity our club has brought and knowing that when this "$h!t show" as you so succinctly put have disappeared we'll still be there (God willing).

Derbyshire is Derbyshire
Yorkshire is Yorkshire

Never the twain shall meet.
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Posted 12 November 2019 - 10:05 AM

The Earl of Chesterfield, on 10 November 2019 - 11:06 AM, said:

There're better and worse.

Though perhaps it's indicative of the wider economy that relatively high employment figures aren't reflected in disposable income.

Minimum wage and zero hours contracts have seen in-work poverty rise alongside food bank usage.

As for Town badges, yeah, they're still around. However jogging past a line of vehicles outside a local school the other day I couldn't help noticing how many Blunts stickers were displayed.

There's a sick kinda irony in the bloke who bragged about his club being higher than them just three short years ago not only overseeing such a demise, but reduced to hosting their youth team for a few Sheffield shillings...

'Employment' has been changed to working an hour a week or more. Also, the kids that finished school/college in June were the first year group to have to stay in education or be on an apprenticeship until they turned 18, keeping them off the books until now.

Our 'high employment' figures are b*ll*cks.

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Posted 12 November 2019 - 10:52 AM

Always thought Chesterfield has never done enough to market itself as a tourist gateway surrounded, as it is, by Haddon Hall, Chatsworth, Bolsover Castle, Sutton Hall, Hardwick Hall, Stainsby Mill and Arkwright's Water Mill, Peak District walks and the Dukeries to the east including Clumber etc. There's also- or was - 'Flint's' old 1940's bus that does the ride to Creswell Crags.

All these things could be included in a one priced tourist card that includes travel. Add some decent accommodation and you've got a going concern. At the moment it all seems a bit bitty where the visitor is left to organise for themselves.

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Posted 12 November 2019 - 11:56 AM

frearsghost, on 12 November 2019 - 10:52 AM, said:

So basically a strapline along the lines of;

Come to Chesterfield

It's near somewhere nice!

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Posted 12 November 2019 - 02:09 PM

HistoricWarwick, on 12 November 2019 - 11:56 AM, said:

So basically a strapline along the lines of;

Come to Chesterfield

It's near somewhere nice!

Gateaway to the Peaks.

There ya go Chesterfield Tourist Board

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Posted 12 November 2019 - 03:33 PM

CFC91, on 12 November 2019 - 02:09 PM, said:

Gateaway to the Peaks.

There ya go Chesterfield Tourist Board

This would make Chesterfield the latest in a long list of places already using that tag for themselves, including Ashbourne, Glossop, Buxton (and I've even seen it applied to Derby, though never to Town).

These go to eleven.

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Posted 12 November 2019 - 04:19 PM

NOFX, on 11 November 2019 - 11:50 AM, said:

here's how Altrincham revitalise its market area
http://www.altrinchammarket.co.uk/
If anyone at Chesterfield council reads this, it is def. worth a visit

Altrincham is slightly more affluent than town as suggested by the activities in your link. Sadly for someone my age town centres are decaying because people don’t want to use them. I was shocked at how few people I saw in town pre the Notts County game although it was raining. More worrying is the age profile. My 90 year old mum still does the Saturday morning trip/shop that she’s done since she was five with her mum. You don’t see many young people there. The internet, supermarkets, out of town shopping centres and the car all make town centres less attractive in the day. Shame cos ours is still a good one.

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Posted 12 November 2019 - 04:40 PM

Bobby Darling, on 12 November 2019 - 04:19 PM, said:

Your gran must have received more correspondence from HRH than Prince Philip 😯

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Posted 12 November 2019 - 05:10 PM

Bobby Darling, on 12 November 2019 - 04:19 PM, said:

id argue ours isn't a good town centre, far from it.
take out vape shops, charity shops, phone shops & barbers & weve very little.

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Posted 12 November 2019 - 07:35 PM

mr. smith, on 12 November 2019 - 05:10 PM, said:

id argue ours isn't a good town centre, far from it.
take out vape shops, charity shops, phone shops & barbers & weve very little.

That is the same in all U.K. towns as only goods and services which aren't (easily) available online are sustainable in the high street.

These go to eleven.

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Posted 12 November 2019 - 07:52 PM

Bobby Darling, on 12 November 2019 - 04:19 PM, said:

My 9-year old refers to Town (as in the town centre) as ‘for old people’. He’s not wrong in many ways.

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Posted 12 November 2019 - 08:06 PM

Bobby Darling, on 12 November 2019 - 04:19 PM, said:

Altrincham is slightly more affluent than town as suggested by the activities in your link.

More than slightly. The average house price in Altrincham is almost £500k, the average house price in the nearby villages of Hale, Hale Barns and Bowden exceed £700k and £800k respectively.
I recall the BBC did a piece on the revitalisation of Altrincham town centre, espousing they were lessons to be learnt for every small town.
Yeah, we’re just missing the spending power of the Bentley, Ferrari and Range Rover owners.

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Posted 13 November 2019 - 04:22 PM

mr. smith, on 12 November 2019 - 05:10 PM, said:

id argue ours isn't a good town centre, far from it.
take out vape shops, charity shops, phone shops & barbers & weve very little.

Agreed. I meant the architecture and street plan. Market hall and square, church, knifesmithgate etc. Shops are terrible and M&S likely to shut in next 2 years.