Does anyone know what happened to this clock?

s.g.d.

Crikey! To be honest s.g.d, I never really noticed it'd gone. LOL

Its been missing for a while now, replaced by a spotlight with a pattern I think?

I remember when it went and thinking "that's a shame".

I also remember the water features at the bottom of both the shopping centres.

And the large cafe in the middle level of the Pride Hill shopping centre - and when you could use the spiral staircase there that comes out on Raven Meadows/Roushill! (Now only a fire escape at the back of a shop.)

And the C&A - which has never been replaced! Now all we have is a lame corridor running through an empty part of the Pride Hill shopping centre.

Oh how things have got worse in those shopping centres!!!

I had forgot about that big cafe.

we are reminiscing about modern shopping centres! :lol:

s.g.d.

p.s. big thanks to whoever sorted the piccy out.

I think our shopping centres, rather oddly - but maybe thankfully, are in decline and the new extension (which had planning permission) will probably never be built. Meanwhile the rest of the town centre is doing rather well.

Times are changing!

yes,time to pull down the Riverside shopping centre and the multi-storey pull the Smithfield Road across and then make a landscaped promenade by the river - oh if only.

s.g.d.

I think SABC's plans for the area (should they have any in the first place) are quite the opposite. They want to see the BT Tower site redeveloped (with quite a large building possibly) and the Riverside Mall replaced with a more sustantial shopping centre.

Not that it's going to happen when about a fifth of the population go bankrupt in the next couple of years because they've spent so much "on plastic" in the shopping centres!! ;)

I can understand, obviously, when families etc get into debt when they can't make ends meet after someone has lost a job or similar. But I also know of a few people in their 20s who have got into debt solely because they are chronically unable to keep their plastic cards in their wallets (i.e. not student debts) and have accumuated vast amounts of fairly useless gear such as designer clothes, computer equipment, CDs, car stuff etc etc. Since I dislike all forms of shopping with a passion (buying a newspaper is bad enough), I really cannot relate to this! Suffice to say, some people do need protecting from themselves!

The only debt I have is my student loan, which will be quite large after 4 years at Uni, but that is a loan I only have to pay back according to my earnings and the amount owed only increases by the rate of inflation. I have an overdraft, but I never go into it (I think I did for about 4 hours, before paying money into the bank to get the balance above 0 again). The bank has offered me a credit card - I refused and they were speachless! :lol:

The Sentinel! An appropriate image for your 1000th posting on the forum!

And here it is - the 1000th post - in the aptly named thread "Passing The Time"!!! :D

Got a phone call, literally 10 minutes ago, from my bank... offering me a credit card! :rolleyes:

i take some beating when it comes to being the tightest wad in town,my car is 14 yrs old,i have just sold my trusty Honda 50,25 yrs old,the carpet has just been renewed after 25 yrs,tv set 10 yrs,washing machine,about 15 yrs.The credit card companies love me,so does the pound shop in town.

Credit card companies love people who go into debt, so that they can make loads of money from interest charges.