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Post by Eggybread on Jan 24, 2018 10:01:33 GMT
Its a shame.She should move to a more cosmopolitan area instead of the backwater which is the potteries still thriving on pies and oatcakes. You can't be that cosmopolitan yourself fella otherwise your username would be frenchtoast....... People would have got confused if I had called myself frenchtoast.And with Stoke being a bastion of freedom from the EU bureaucrats I stuck to the safe option hence Eggybread.
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Post by tijuanabrass on Jan 24, 2018 11:35:24 GMT
It's great to see a WAG challenge herself on a professional level rather than spend her days gossiping with other WAGs in luxury stores and salons. I know you didn't mean that disrespectfully but she appears to be the antithesis of that label. Too eloquent and educated to be defined solely by who she is married to. I wish her and her family well.
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Post by johnnysoul60 on Jan 24, 2018 11:44:29 GMT
nice place but Hanley is such a mess its hard to make a good living there with this kind of place , they seem lovely people and I hope she does well with her new venture
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Post by chad on Jan 24, 2018 11:44:31 GMT
Don’t like being negative about my own city but the Potteries Centre really is very dated now and so shabby compared to other shopping centres It’s never going to be the Trafford Centre but surely it could compete with the likes of Derby who’s shopping complex is so much better Anyway good luck Mrs Mama
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Post by OldStokie on Jan 24, 2018 12:04:39 GMT
Such a shame but understandable. I wish Bineta all the luck in the world at what she's going to do. She's a lovely lady and is married to a lovely bloke in Mama.
OS.
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Post by SamB_SCFC on Jan 24, 2018 12:19:32 GMT
Hanley is a shit hole and full of tramps and culturally illiterate ***** so doesn't surprise me. Just look at the state of most of the people up there, I only go when it's absolutely unavoidable. Such a shame because when I occasionally pop up Hanley I'll usually pop in there. I guess that's part of the problem, the types of people who are likely to go to a place like this aren't usually found up Hanley.
I also don't understand the logic with putting up rents. With ever increasing competition from online constantly reducing footfall surely they should be reducing rents to encourage more food and service businesses like this rather than driving them away? These kinds of businesses are the future of the high street and shopping centres, businesses that provide food or some kind of service or experience which can't be provided online and delivered to your home. Most traditional shops will eventually disappear or be downsized and turned into click and collect/return centres.
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Post by maliciousdamage on Jan 24, 2018 12:26:05 GMT
Don’t like being negative about my own city but the Potteries Centre really is very dated now and so shabby compared to other shopping centres It’s never going to be the Trafford Centre but surely it could compete with the likes of Derby who’s shopping complex is so much better Anyway good luck Mrs Mama I'd wholly agree here, I go to Derby shopping on a regular basis, Macclesfield and Leek too. All have smaller independent shops even in Derby's Intu Centre. Hanley is just becoming an eyesore and the Council won't reduce rents to attract better shops because they are still living in dreamland with their failed Birch Street Carp Park Shopping Centre Redevelopment
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Post by claytonscrubs on Jan 24, 2018 12:55:23 GMT
I do miss the old Hanley bus station. I could tell you a few stories about that place, but it wouldn’t be appropriate for a family forum...
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Post by nsd on Jan 24, 2018 14:01:17 GMT
Don’t like being negative about my own city but the Potteries Centre really is very dated now and so shabby compared to other shopping centres It’s never going to be the Trafford Centre but surely it could compete with the likes of Derby who’s shopping complex is so much better Anyway good luck Mrs Mama I'd wholly agree here, I go to Derby shopping on a regular basis, Macclesfield and Leek too. All have smaller independent shops even in Derby's Intu Centre. Hanley is just becoming an eyesore and the Council won't reduce rents to attract better shops because they are still living in dreamland with their failed Birch Street Carp Park Shopping Centre Redevelopment Yet they're still building new stuff while half the businesses are boarded up!
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Post by mouseykanga2 on Jan 24, 2018 14:32:09 GMT
Stoke Council a joke..... Take some tips from Newcastle Council.. Always updating and replacing shoddy buildings
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Jan 24, 2018 15:04:40 GMT
"My kids are bi-lingual. They never learned English from us, they learned English at nursery and at school. They speak French with a Parisian accent and English with a Stokie accent and that’s great for them."
That's great!
Combining baking and language-learning sounds like a good idea, so good luck to Bineta with the new venture.
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Post by maliciousdamage on Jan 24, 2018 15:11:59 GMT
I'd wholly agree here, I go to Derby shopping on a regular basis, Macclesfield and Leek too. All have smaller independent shops even in Derby's Intu Centre. Hanley is just becoming an eyesore and the Council won't reduce rents to attract better shops because they are still living in dreamland with their failed Birch Street Carp Park Shopping Centre Redevelopment Yet they're still building new stuff while half the businesses are boarded up! I know they were obsessed with that arc from supposed new shopping centre, bus station, Rubik cube, Tesco down to festival park they tried to move the town centre but it’s just created a disastrous vacuum of desolation a shocking way to treat a city centre but no doubt someone somewhere lined their pockets in the process
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Post by thevoid on Jan 24, 2018 15:39:29 GMT
It's a shame. Perhaps they'd have been better renting a unit out in the Cultural Quarter near the theatre rather than the lower level of the shopping centre near Poundland and Supercuts.
Says it all when the most of the new craft beer and gin joints are opening up in Newcastle and even Leek rather than Ghetto Hanley, which attracts the Auctioneer and Market Tavern types (shoplifters and smackheads with tattooed foreheads).
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Post by skip on Jan 24, 2018 16:14:34 GMT
I spoke to Mama a couple of months ago and mentioned the Cafe to him. He said that the rent was going up and the footfall into the Potteries Shopping Centre was going down, so i'm not surprised that its closing. Its a pity as this place was a bit different and just makes Costa & Co even stronger My nippers like an occasional visit to the Potteries shopping centre. I think it's so they can have a run around without worrying about bumping in to anyone.
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Post by LGH87 on Jan 24, 2018 20:08:29 GMT
Was always a ridiculous location. She should’ve opened it down Piccadilly, there’s a much better scene down there & it would’ve fit right in. Tsp. & others are a great success.
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Post by duckling on Jan 24, 2018 20:51:27 GMT
"My kids are bi-lingual. They never learned English from us, they learned English at nursery and at school. They speak French with a Parisian accent and English with a Stokie accent and that’s great for them." That's great! Combining baking and language-learning sounds like a good idea, so good luck to Bineta with the new venture. How many players raise their families in Stoke? My impression was that Cheshire is the footballer capital, and anyone who plays for a Premier League club within commuting distance of Cheshire lives there.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 20:57:35 GMT
"My kids are bi-lingual. They never learned English from us, they learned English at nursery and at school. They speak French with a Parisian accent and English with a Stokie accent and that’s great for them." That's great! Combining baking and language-learning sounds like a good idea, so good luck to Bineta with the new venture. How many players raise their families in Stoke? My impression was that Cheshire is the footballer capital, and anyone who plays for a Premier League club within commuting distance of Cheshire lives there. Not many. Begovic used to live in Seabridge (near enough) but don't think any of the current lot do........
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Post by duckling on Jan 24, 2018 21:05:15 GMT
How many players raise their families in Stoke? My impression was that Cheshire is the footballer capital, and anyone who plays for a Premier League club within commuting distance of Cheshire lives there. Not many. Begovic used to live in Seabridge (near enough) but don't think any of the current lot do........ David Wagner at Huddersfield requires all his players live within 15 miles of the club, and he lives there too. Apparently such a requirement isn't unusual in Germany. Interesting idea.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 24, 2018 23:37:31 GMT
How many players raise their families in Stoke? My impression was that Cheshire is the footballer capital, and anyone who plays for a Premier League club within commuting distance of Cheshire lives there. Not many. Begovic used to live in Seabridge (near enough) but don't think any of the current lot do........ Ramadan pretty much does. 👍
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 25, 2018 1:47:04 GMT
It's great to see a WAG challenge herself on a professional level rather than spend her days gossiping with other WAGs in luxury stores and salons. I know you didn't mean that disrespectfully but she appears to be the antithesis of that label. Too eloquent and educated to be defined solely by who she is married to. I wish her and her family well. 2006 in Baden Baden do you think they discussed the advantages of being blingual during the shopping and champagne lunches?
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Jan 25, 2018 2:14:53 GMT
Stoke Council a joke..... Take some tips from Newcastle Council.. Always updating and replacing shoddy buildings The grass is always greener over the hill! I'm not sure how many Newcastle residents think taking tips from Newcastle council is a good idea. Take the Victorian school that was demolished after years of inaction saw it decay, and the headline for the replacement building today: "Newcastle's £15.4m Castle House is still not ready because of damaged cladding" - it should've been ready in October. The council, library, police and more were supposed to be moving there. There are rumours of subsidence too. If it's not ready by May, the council will have nowhere to go, as their current offices are due for redevelopment. It's a bigger joke than the Smithfield was in Hanley. Admittedly it's not all the council's fault.
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Post by prudhoe on Jan 25, 2018 22:00:08 GMT
Not many. Begovic used to live in Seabridge (near enough) but don't think any of the current lot do........ David Wagner at Huddersfield requires all his players live within 15 miles of the club, and he lives there too. Apparently such a requirement isn't unusual in Germany. Interesting idea. We'd never pursuade any players to come to Stoke if that was the case. I'm sure that one of the big selling points the club uses to attract big players to us is our easy commuting distance to the Wag lifestyle in Cheshire. Can you imagine any half decent player going home to tell his wife/gf good news hunny. We're moving to Stoke on Trent?
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Post by Edward Tattsyrup on Jan 25, 2018 22:53:44 GMT
Stoke Council a joke..... Take some tips from Newcastle Council.. Always updating and replacing shoddy buildings The grass is always greener over the hill! I'm not sure how many Newcastle residents think taking tips from Newcastle council is a good idea. Take the Victorian school that was demolished after years of inaction saw it decay, and the headline for the replacement building today: "Newcastle's £15.4m Castle House is still not ready because of damaged cladding" - it should've been ready in October. The council, library, police and more were supposed to be moving there. There are rumours of subsidence too. If it's not ready by May, the council will have nowhere to go, as their current offices are due for redevelopment. It's a bigger joke than the Smithfield was in Hanley. Admittedly it's not all the council's fault. Not only is the castle house development delay not the council's fault,but the contractors will be liable for any additional costs incurred by the council by the delay.
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Post by mermaidsal on Jan 25, 2018 23:10:34 GMT
Such a shame but understandable. I wish Bineta all the luck in the world at what she's going to do. She's a lovely lady and is married to a lovely bloke in Mama. OS. She's training as a Teaching Assisant I think. They're just such a good ordinary family, big achievemtn given Mama's early life and I love that they've settled round here. Bineta's cakes are/were brilliant and she put so much into that place - tbh I think location was the problem, the donwstairs market just doesn;t have anything else like it. If she'd started the business in Stone, Nantwich, Eccleshall, maybe Newcastle, different story maybe. Hope she'll continue to do some baking and this hasn't put her off. They still don't quite get us tho, if she'd made a cow's arse and banjo cake it would have sold 100s
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Post by march4 on Jan 25, 2018 23:13:34 GMT
Stone or Trentham would have been better options.
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Post by spiderpuss on Jan 26, 2018 6:27:05 GMT
The grass is always greener over the hill! I'm not sure how many Newcastle residents think taking tips from Newcastle council is a good idea. Take the Victorian school that was demolished after years of inaction saw it decay, and the headline for the replacement building today: "Newcastle's £15.4m Castle House is still not ready because of damaged cladding" - it should've been ready in October. The council, library, police and more were supposed to be moving there. There are rumours of subsidence too. If it's not ready by May, the council will have nowhere to go, as their current offices are due for redevelopment. It's a bigger joke than the Smithfield was in Hanley. Admittedly it's not all the council's fault. Not only is the castle house development delay not the council's fault,but the contractors will be liable for any additional costs incurred by the council by the delay. Probably was/is Carillion.
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Post by bathstoke on Jan 26, 2018 8:04:41 GMT
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Post by Edward Tattsyrup on Jan 26, 2018 9:53:27 GMT
Not only is the castle house development delay not the council's fault,but the contractors will be liable for any additional costs incurred by the council by the delay. Probably was/is Carillion. Kier.
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Post by spiderpuss on Jan 26, 2018 12:37:23 GMT
Probably was/is Carillion. Kier. Roger that. 4 years, doesn't seem a long time, but in that time Hanley has deteriorated immeasurably. Gone are Webberleys, BHS and Chatwins and now Mama's place. In their place, err well, hmm. very little. It takes a long time to build a good reputation, but quite clearly just four short years to gain an unenviable one. Hanley seems to have been hit by a perfect storm. Lack of funding generally by private and public enterprise. The ever increasing spectre of on-line shopping. The ease of getting to and from out-of-town centres for anything you actually need. The growth of larger, and sadly better, alternatives, that are just a short and cheap train ride away. I've been saying for a while that in the next 10 years some town centres will be finished as we know them. A former shadow of their former selves, simply providing a few basics and little else. Hanley has to be right up there with that sentiment, by each passing month we learn of something else closing or moving to a better location. Coupled with the fact that some businesses are going bust (toyrus/Mothercare/bon marche/Debenhams - have all issued serious profit statements). The buildings these firms occupy never really are occupied by anything worthwhile and at best another pound shop or bookmakers takes over. How many more of these outlets we really need, is questionable. Hanley used to worth going to, when online shopping was in its infancy. Now its much easier and better to do most of it online and leave the rest of your time to some far less depressing than walking around what remains of Hanley. It's a shame but that's the way the retail world is going.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 26, 2018 13:18:58 GMT
These comments about Hanley are a shame and a bit off the mark imo.
As LGH mentions the Piccadilly area is actually pretty decent with some fantastic independent shops/cafes/restaurants/bars.
I'm not sure if people don't know about it or what? But they really do need your support as they are exactly what Hanley needs.
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