Walsall town centre

[WillenhallManiac]

What happened to The Tavern in the Town? For a time it was my last stop before walking to Fellows Park and first port of call after the match.

Indeed and with a brilliant Juke box to boot.

[chunkster]

What happened to The Tavern in the Town? For a time it was my last stop before walking to Fellows Park and first port of call after the match.

I remember being in there when we played Millwall, i was standing towards the back of the pub with my mates when about 10 of them walked in and started singing "THE MILLWALL" well they got "the mill" bit out when we started throwing our glasses at them. but unfortunately mine bounced off the back of my mates head :lol: and it was one of those large glasses with the handle on. he ended up with 6 stitches and to this day still doesn't realize it was me :lol:

[Welsh_Saddler]

What happened to The Tavern in the Town? For a time it was my last stop before walking to Fellows Park and first port of call after the match.

I remember being in there when we played Millwall, i was standing towards the back of the pub with my mates when about 10 of them walked in and started singing "THE MILLWALL" well they got "the mill" bit out when we started throwing our glasses at them. but unfortunately mine bounced off the back of my mates head :lol: and it was one of those large glasses with the handle on. he ended up with 6 stitches and to this day still doesn't realize it was me :lol:

He might do now........ :mrgreen:

[shrewsbury saddler]

I remember a many years ago, a friend telling me about when some Lincoln supporters stopped her brother in town and asked him where they could go for a quiet, trouble-free drink. He sent them to the Tavern.

[chunkster]

What happened to The Tavern in the Town? For a time it was my last stop before walking to Fellows Park and first port of call after the match.

I remember being in there when we played Millwall, i was standing towards the back of the pub with my mates when about 10 of them walked in and started singing "THE MILLWALL" well they got "the mill" bit out when we started throwing our glasses at them. but unfortunately mine bounced off the back of my mates head :lol: and it was one of those large glasses with the handle on. he ended up with 6 stitches and to this day still doesn't realize it was me :lol:

He might do now........ :mrgreen:

Na he's not a member on here thankfully :mrgreen:

[latviancheese]

City centres are still thriving, but Town centres and high streets are dying out.

I think times are moving on, its sad, but its a fact. Supermarkets and retail parks have seen to the end of the high street.

[Exile]

City centres are still thriving, but Town centres and high streets are dying out.

I think times are moving on, its sad, but its a fact. Supermarkets and retail parks have seen to the end of the high street.

Mate, you're years behind the times. the town centre needs to be something different. Malls are all the same, everywhere, but a town centre can be a whole lot more than poundland and greggs. Just needs vision, although you'll never get that from Walsall council.

Imagine if they could concentrate the town instead of spread it out over two or three linear miles.

Imagine free parking.

Imagine reducing rates for new businesses you want to attract,

Imagine a food precinct, children's area, family zone, all-weather.

Then remember your council sucks and you'll never have that from the useless cockwombles you elect and pay. I can't believe how dysfunctional Walsall is. How can it be so utterly crap for so long?

[SaigonSaddler]

City centres are still thriving, but Town centres and high streets are dying out.

I think times are moving on, its sad, but its a fact. Supermarkets and retail parks have seen to the end of the high street.

Mate, you're years behind the times. the town centre needs to be something different. Malls are all the same, everywhere, but a town centre can be a whole lot more than poundland and greggs. Just needs vision, although you'll never get that from Walsall council.

Imagine if they could concentrate the town instead of spread it out over two or three linear miles.

Imagine free parking.

Imagine reducing rates for new businesses you want to attract,

Imagine a food precinct, children's area, family zone, all-weather.

Then remember your council sucks and you'll never have that from the useless cockwombles you elect and pay. I can't believe how dysfunctional Walsall is. How can it be so utterly crap for so long?

Probably still paying off Butler's Passage.

:roll: :roll: :roll: :|

[chunkster]

The most successful businesses in walsall are Mr sizzle CEX Primark the £1 baguette shop and the stalls that sell any bowl of fruit for a £1that tells a story :|

[philthesaddler]

The most successful businesses in walsall are Mr sizzle CEX Primark the £1 baguette shop and the stalls that sell any bowl of fruit for a £1that tells a story :|

The Walsollians like computer games, cack clothes and fruity baguettes?

[Kevlar]

Probably still paying off Butler's Passage.

:roll: :roll: :roll: :|

Butler's Passage was absolutely scandalous , but this might beat it..................."Walsall's central library, on Lichfield Street, will undergo £4 million of restoration and renovation work after council bosses signed off on the scheme."


I assume they're knocking it down and building a new one.

[chunkster]

The most successful businesses in walsall are Mr sizzle CEX Primark the £1 baguette shop and the stalls that sell any bowl of fruit for a £1that tells a story :|

The Walsollians like computer games, cack clothes and fruity baguettes?

Youve hit it on the ead :mrgreen:

[Whitters]

So what's it cost to park near the town centre these days?
What if it were free?

[sj]

Leigh, where I currently live seems to have got it right, we have a precinct, small town centre with a variety of small independent businesses, a cracking well diverse market, literally tens of great pubs ancient/classic/modern.
Every supermarket that exists (apart from Waitrose of course, it's a poor town). Has a cracking Retail Park with plentiful free parking. The traffic in the town flows quite freely most of the time.
All-told a super success story despite the fact that we have the great city of Manchesterford, just a short drive down the East Lancs dual carriageway, equally easily reached via a fabulous (£4.50 return!) guided busway (along an old railway line), if you don't feel like driving, (or paying an average car parking fee of around £6/£10 per day!)
Also we have the Trafford Centre, one of the biggest Shopping centres in the UK, just a few miles away on the Motorway.
Yet Leigh is always busy, (yes a few charity shops at the far end of the town) but not suffering from the 'town centre blight' that most small towns seem to have.

To be honest when I come back to Walsall I avoid the town centre, I get lost in the new traffic system (well probably 40 year old new!) tend to stick to the area round the ground, Palfrey/Caldmore/Broadway etc, don't feel threatened there.
(I like to hope that my sun tan helps in the former two! :lol: :lol: )

So you've popped across the Pennines have you, AM? I've never been to Leigh itself but I've been to Newton-Le-Willows and Eccles which straddle it. Swamp Saddler used to be in Tyldesley just down the road.

Strange about your "sun tan". When I lived in Caldmore/Palfrey, the threats didn't come from "sun tanned people"; it was from stupid white men.

But each to their own I suppose.

I lived in Caldmore in the 70s, my late wife( Val) when she was young and beautiful was regularly asked how much she cost!! She was free to me at the time. :wink:
Pay the people more money and they will spend it in the shops a boost the town and please bring back free parking, again that would boost the spending in the town.....

SJ