Re: Dewsbury move question? : Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:31 pm  

Redscat wrote:

Barnsley are currently refurbishing their town centre and the new Cineworld is to incorporate a new ten pin bowling alley. I certainly think to include a bowling alley in the proposed new Wakefield cinema would generate a much busier night scene (which is what they wanted to do) than retail outlets would. we have too many shops standing empty. Woods music shop in Wood Street must have been stood empty for nearly ten years. In fact the whole Wood Street/Northgate area has become devoid of human life.

I actually quite miss going for a game of ten pin bowling now and again in Wakefield, used to always have a good laugh down there.

Re: Dewsbury move question? : Fri Jul 21, 2017 11:10 pm  

Shifty Cat wrote:

I actually quite miss going for a game of ten pin bowling now and again in Wakefield, used to always have a good laugh down there.

I'm the same, i started Ten pin bowling back in the mid 60's in what is now the Gala bingo club on George Street and then at the bowling alley on the old Theatre club site at Belle Vue.
I have kept up playing on a fairly regular basis and still go when i visit my daughter down in Kent as she lives near a Ten pin bowling alley. Thing is there's a bowling alley just up the M62 at Xscape in Castleford of all places and nothing in Wakefield. Looks like we have been shafted again.

Re: Dewsbury move question? : Sun Jul 23, 2017 5:46 pm  

I think Kev is right. Wakefield as a town centre has been ruined by a council bereft of ideas of regeneration. Cllr Jeffrey is responsible for Wakefield Town Centre regeneration and is obsessed with trying to turn it into a Meadowhall or Trafford Centre. Any developer at all waving money gets free rein. They are flattening Rishworth Street Car Park and leaving the land as a bait for would be investors. They are not interested in the small businesses that made the town centre so vibrant in the past. They absolutely massacred the market and end up with a few stalls in the ridings! Now they want another multi screen cinema where the old one was! We really are desperate for that aren't we!
Sorry! Makes me so angey when you see what is happening in Leeds for instance, yes, a bigger scale but they know the value of a town centre. They integrate the malls within the city. Trinity Walk simply isolates it. The Ridings added to the centre of Wakefield because it was integrated and connected.
Nuff said