The New Moor Market

[EmmaJones76]

Some folk have problems Inc Asperger's disease .I don't know if our Alan has or not but most who know him accept that he is what he is and take the swearing etc with a pinch of snuff.

 

And what if you dont know him?

[AlexAtkin]

Don't see what problem is with new markets - its in a better place and a nice building. Lots of the crime and anti-social behaviour associated with old markets in their latter years doesn't happen.

 

The family and I go down once a fortnight to get good quality fresh meat and enjoy the high standard of service from the butchers and a good chat to boot.

 

We can all look back at Castle and Sheaf markets with rose tinted glasses but lets face it they were horrendous by the end!

 

 

Honestly, the design and layout of the new market is dreadful - not sure I would call it a "nice" building by any stretch of the imagination.

 

 

Creating an artificial bottleneck around the meat market and toilets due to the angle of everything was moronic, it makes it awkward to get around if its busy.

 

 

 

Having the smell and chemicals of hairdressing drifting around the fruit stalls is also moronic, no way that isn't impacting on the longevity of the produce and its far from inviting for those of us with Asthma.

 

 

These things were never an issue in the old market because meat/veg and general stalls were all far apart, usually with actual walls between those sections of the market. You didn't NEED to go near any hairdressers and in general the building was so far everything dissipated better.

 

I agree that Castle Market was far from ideal, but what they replaced it with had zero thought put into it. Plenty of stall holders never made the move because it was too expensive and the cold storage options were pathetic compared to what they were used to.

[Albert smith]

Honestly, the design and layout of the new market is dreadful - not sure I would call it a "nice" building by any stretch of the imagination.

 

 

Creating an artificial bottleneck around the meat market and toilets due to the angle of everything was moronic, it makes it awkward to get around if its busy.

 

 

 

Having the smell and chemicals of hairdressing drifting around the fruit stalls is also moronic, no way that isn't impacting on the longevity of the produce and its far from inviting for those of us with Asthma.

 

 

These things were never an issue in the old market because meat/veg and general stalls were all far apart, usually with actual walls between those sections of the market. You didn't NEED to go near any hairdressers and in general the building was so far everything dissipated better.

 

I agree that Castle Market was far from ideal, but what they replaced it with had zero thought put into it. Plenty of stall holders never made the move because it was too expensive and the cold storage options were pathetic compared to what they were used to.

 

Bang on ,add to this the pathetic lay out of the cafe section a mismatch of confusion that is used by many as just a place to sit and socialise .

In the old Castle every eatery had its own section served by the cafe staff who were responsible for keeping the place clean and shipshape .

The atmosphere of a proper market one that can be found in our surrounding Towns of Barnsley, Chesterfield and Doncaster has been ruined for ever by the move from the traditional area.

[EmmaJones76]

If you don't like it, you could just stop going in. Imagine if your local pub changed management and the new landlord was an utter cretin. Would you carry on going in?

[dutch]

UK interpretation of the word market is very different from the markets I see outside UK.

 

When I tell foreign visitors, here is our Sheffield market they look around and ask me "where?, we don't see a market"

When I explain UK markets are different they have a look around and tell me I'm joking with them, it cant really be a market. They say this building on the moor has become too different and also doesn't have market prices either.

[Dan_Ashcroft]

As if they couldn't before anyway, as long as they provided metric as well. I'm dubious as to how much such a rule has been enforced over the years anyway.

 

Good luck to any traders who will go back to just using imperial, but I'm not sure why any of them would. Metric is increasingly the norm for the younger generations, is much simpler from a maths point of view, and surely the generations who feel more comfortable with imperial are an ageing and diminishing demographic?

 

But there you go, that's a big part of Brexit for a lot of leave voters - the older generation giving a rose-tinted, overly-nostalgic middle-finger to the younger generations.

 

Young people are fairly savvy with imperial measures. All unregulated 'refreshments' are sold in imperial (except coke) for starters. "Can I have 3.5 grams of your finest cannabis please", no one has ever said

[melthebell]

When will the "new" moor market stop being the "new" moor market?

[paula4sheff]

When will the "new" moor market stop being the "new" moor market?

 

When it's replaced by a new one?

[Albert smith]

When will the "new" moor market stop being the "new" moor market?

In fifty or sixty years when it's paid for:hihi:

[Anna B]

If you don't like it, you could just stop going in. Imagine if your local pub changed management and the new landlord was an utter cretin. Would you carry on going in?

 

True, but that's not good enough.

 

A successful, thriving market can be the lynchpin of a town or city, and certainly of a shopping area. Never more so than in these days of nothing but chain stores and multiples.

 

A good market can offer bright, colourful and inexpensive choice, and give a town character. Get it right and it can make all the difference to a retail area, and become the main attraction.

 

Sadly, Sheffield market is none of those things, and the whole of Sheffield city centre is all the poorer for it.