What will happen to the Antiques Market?
RECENTLY on an icy, bitterly cold day we went to the market hall for some meat (at Rosses, who have a proper butcher’s stall with chillers etc, and arguably the best meat in Harborough).
It was lovely and warm inside, with people at the pleasant café, someone having a haircut, someone discussing sewing repairs, more trying on clothes and happy chatter as people wandered around the spacious, airy, light hall, away from the bitter wind.
Have our councillors visited the market recently?
Do they still imagine it consists of the stalls selling cheapo goods brought in daily in cardboard boxes like at a car boot sale, or second-class fruit and veg at knockdown prices?
It has moved on from that and is now a lovely retail area, one we should be proud of.
Few of the users of the market hall will want to move outside – their businesses would die.
No one seems to have thought of the Antiques Market on Sundays, either.
This brings visitors and tourist trade to our town. What will happen to it?
Will sellers of expensive antiques and jewellery want to move into a back yard in the town?
Please councillors, visit the market, preferably on a cold day, and reconsider.
Vivien Window,
Church Walk,
Little Bowden,
Harborough.
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