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Published on: 19/02/2018 04:31 PMReported by: rogerblaxall
Remember when you could park for free in Ormskirk, shop at a myriad of independent stores and really enjoy time in the town centre?
It's now just a fond memory for locals of a certain age but many like QLocal's Roger Blaxall, whose father George used to manage Fine Fare on Moor St (it's now Superdrug), are convinced that Ormskirk then - with its regular day time traffic jams and two way traffic on Burscough St. - was a lot better than it is now.
He remembers sixties Ormskirk vividly but readers of Classic Car Weekly were taken back a decade earlier recently when the magazine featured this wonderful 1958 Moor St. scene with former Champion reporter David Simister - now CCW's editor - writing a short feature on the town then and now.
He compared and contrasted the scene with one from Motorfest which shows Moor St. in a completely different light.
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rogerblaxall
Remember when you could park for free in Ormskirk, shop at a myriad of independent stores and really enjoy time in the town centre?
It's now just a fond memory for locals of a certain age but many like QLocal's Roger Blaxall, whose father George used to manage Fine Fare on Moor St (it's now Superdrug), are convinced that Ormskirk then - with its regular day time traffic jams and two way traffic on Burscough St. - was a lot better than it is now.
He remembers sixties Ormskirk vividly but readers of Classic Car Weekly were taken back a decade earlier recently when the magazine featured this wonderful 1958 Moor St. scene with former Champion reporter David Simister - now CCW's editor - writing a short feature on the town then and now.
He compared and contrasted the scene with one from Motorfest which shows Moor St. in a completely different light.
I grew up there in the ’80s, and have to say that the idea of a busy town with thriving independent shops isn't something I experienced. Ormskirk didn't have a single restaurant then, and your only options for a night out were the Chelsea Reach and the Brahms & Liszt. Followed, of course, by a smack in the mouth outside the chippy.
Today's Ormskirk is great place to go out. It's never going to have the shops of old, but that's because people shop online for basics or go to Liverpool 1 for fancy stuff. Thankfully, the uni and its students/staff provides a customer base for bars and restaurants. And that is the future for the town centre – now we need more apartments in town so students and graduates can socialise without annoying families on estates.
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