What went wrong at Firth park

[bantycock]

Firth Parks a right dump now comments welcome had best times of my life there can't even walk down back o bowling alley what's gone wrong !!!

[backwardben]

well i had a walk round firth park and a coffee and a walk through the park to pagehall, found it very pleasant

[Frankie Rage]

I was in Firth Park a few years ago. It seemed a bit dingy and certainly not the bustling hub I remember as a child. I lived in Page Hall and to go up to Firth Park shops was something!

[francypants]

well i had a walk round firth park and a coffee and a walk through the park to pagehall, found it very pleasant

 

 

 

Should have gone to Specsavers .................

[*Belle*]

I don't suppose that it is any different to most suburban shopping areas, in that, shopping habits have changed dramatically over the years. Most shoppers evidently prefer to use the more clinical environment of the hypermarkets, Meadowhalls and the White Roses than the suburban centres, or even the town centres come to that.

 

I think that time is also an issue. In my mother's day and to some extent, in my younger days, shopping was a bit of an expedition most days. Today I can get most of it done in a couple of hours, one day a week.

 

I can remember going shopping with my nan in the 50's and she would walk my legs off between different shops to save a few coppers because she always knew who was the cheaper shop for specific items. I can't see many doing that these days.

[petcharlie]

I don't suppose that it is any different to most suburban shopping areas, in that, shopping habits have changed dramatically over the years. Most shoppers evidently prefer to use the more clinical environment of the hypermarkets, Meadowhalls and the White Roses than the suburban centres, or even the town centres come to that.

 

I think that time is also an issue. In my mother's day and to some extent, in my younger days, shopping was a bit of an expedition most days. Today I can get most of it done in a couple of hours, one day a week.

 

I can remember going shopping with my nan in the 50's and she would walk my legs off between different shops to save a few coppers because she always knew who was the cheaper shop for specific items. I can't see many doing that these days.

 

I remember firth park being beautiful,always clean and the flower beds in the park were gorgeous.Spent hours as a kid sailing my boats on the boating lake.Always went shopping with my mum to Fredricks the pork butchers.Spencers and Watsons the other butchers.Wilds the fishmonger up the gennel just off the island.No litter no "street art" spotless .Also Wigfalls were I got my Dansett from (record player).Snellsons were up stairs was a record bar where you could listen to a record before you bought it.Went back some weeks ago after some years and the difference was amazing.It was filthy,graffiti everywhere slummy shops.No quality shops most selling cheap tack,litter everywhere.No water in the boating lake,everything run down and looking very tired.Believe me it does not give me any pleasure what so ever to knock it,I have wonderful memories of the place.On the contrary it saddens me to have witnessed such a demise in standards to a once lovely place.So very sad.