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Post by Madhatter on May 13, 2006 1:06:41 GMT
Atherstone is noticeably no busier these days and it is clear that more people should be attracted to our town to help businesses to achieve more success.
So what can we do to encourage more people into the town? What could we do that is BIG! Things that would bring people from all over the country in to the town
Here one as a starter:
'Big Brown Tourist Signs'
A large interactive Big Brown Sign Experience in which people read it, stop, then wander through a historic Atherstone town full of bookshops, gift shops and craft shops with some of the old yards re-done as cobbled shopping lanes, a hat factory museum and actors dressed in the appropriate costumes playing the parts of characters of the time in order to guide people through the experience. Anyone who has been to Annie's Dungeon will know the sort of thing I am talking about. ;D Instead we got the Aldi experience
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JoshBaskin
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Post by JoshBaskin on Jun 15, 2006 11:33:00 GMT
I see that the teddybear shop is closing, thats another shop gone that also sold books and stuff that visitors might have wanted to buy. How many more shops are we going to lose before they do something to get people in to the town.
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Post by Madhatter on Jun 17, 2006 21:49:43 GMT
yep josh, it closed today, a great shame because i seen that shop as part of the booktown, even though it didn't sell many books. I saw it as a touristy shop. It will be one less shop that visitors would have enjoyed browsing. If they'd have got more trade this wouldn't have happened, but the trade just wasn't there, there are thousands of cars passing atherstone by each day, and nothing at all to say that atherstone is anything other than an historic market town, with a run down market. The same as every other town of the sama size.
I'd like to say good luck to you again in whatever you do, and thanks for the display case. Good luck to the new occupant of that shop, which is apparently something to do with coffee beans and plates.
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jolene
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Post by jolene on Jun 24, 2006 13:01:04 GMT
Let me have that display case hatter, what are you going to do with it? I'll make good use of it.
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