Browsing 'The Market'
Market health check
Tucked away in last week’s town council papers was a market story.
Numbers of traders at the Wednesday market went down from an average of 23.38 a week last year to 22 this year.
But in 2000, there were on average 60 traders per week, and in 1990 the number was a bustling 99.
The Town Council changed its pricing of stalls this year, to encourage m ...
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Popular market trader: “My dad and me”
This was madeo a couple of years ago, with a well known trader in Oswestry market. We’re showing it now to mark National Markets week.
This week, you can trade from a market stall for tenner. Call David Clough on 01691 680222 ...
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The Powis Hall Market Relaunch Report.
Never has Oswestry seen such a display of jubilation and civic pride. After months of careful preparation, at exactly 12 noon on Wednesday the 9th of May, Oswestry's Market Hall was relaunched. Streets and roads from Morda Road to the Whittington Road railway bridge were closed to traffic to accommodate the cheering multitudes thronging the town for this a ...
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Market Day!
Wednesday, and just a reminder that it's market day. It struggles, it tries and it survives, and not all issues surrounding promotion and attracting stronger stalls and developing a greater food presence have been addressed or solved. But for those of us who use it, it's a small joy to share the craic with Ian and Joanne and strike a deal ...
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The beat on the street.
In addition to the normal Saturday delights of purchasing fish from Ian at the fish stall and cranking up on far too many expressos at Cafe Radio in good company and generally catching up with compadres, renegades and stalwarts, today, despite a stiff, cold breeze, we had the sunny, loud, un-amplified, real live sound of Oswestry's Street Band doing their ow ...
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Eggs is eggs…or are they?
Food industry experts are warning that egg prices are set to rise dramatically after an EU ban on battery hen cages came into force as an animal welfare measure. Since 1 January all laying hens must be kept in "enriched" cages with extra
space to nest, scratch and roost.
Many farmers switched their hens to larger, so-called enriched cages, to produce che ...
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Market news
The floor painting of the market should be finished by the end of next week (Saturday 28th) as will the new lift which will be situated by the new deli counter and lead onto the new balcony above it. This will be eventually canopied as will the rest of the stalls and that will be the final job. The WIFI is set to be operational by the start of Feb but we ...
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Os21 looks at Shrewsbury Market
Is there really a renewal of interest in markets? If there is, why is there? Could Oswestry market gain more support and do better? Is there a living to be made from a market stall after all?
OS21 visited Shrewsbury market to find out.
Shrewsbury market has, by all accounts, undergone a remarkable revival. Shrewsbury Town Council recently issued a pres ...
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New cheese stall on market!
Oswestry market has been without a cheese stall for quite a while. Today a new cheese stall opened up on the outdoor market. Lee from Bromsgrove seemed to have a good range of cheeses and some pork products. We bought some black pudding, a Camembert and some goats cheese. Good luck to him. ...
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Breaking news – Conran/Powys Hall go-ahead…….
The following e mail has been received at OS21 Tower: "In a meeting this evening of a committee of Town Councillors, market traders, David Preston and David Clough, informed those present about a go-ahead for the Conran design. Tenders for the work will be put out in a few weeks which will be open for a 3 week period. After that, work is hoped to begin on th ...
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Christmas Craft Fair
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Market News
The following appeared in the Shropshire Star last Monday:
Ambitious proposals to revamp Oswestry’s indoor market hall have been hit by news that the £50,000 prize which sparked the plans is not the cash sum that was expected.
The Powis Hall building, which houses the three-day-a- week market, won an online voting competition in The Times newspaper, by ...
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The cherry trees revisited………..
The cherry trees in the Red Square..........
What's the deal here? There have been muted noises from the Guildhall in recent times expressing opinion that the Powys Hall Market should be demolished and redeveloped as "offices with small retail units at ground floor level". When pressed about the continued existence of a market..... the blithe answer is that ...
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Time and place………..
As the heavily overloaded supermarket pantechnicon sways it's weary way through the planning and appeals processes, just some thoughts on the wider context.
As human beings, beyond food, clothes, shelter and work, we require love, companionship, self expression, social interaction in order to maintain contentment and mental and physical health, and we req ...
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Supermarket or Real Market?
SHOPPING FOR FRESH FOOD IN OSWESTRY
A year long study of fresh foods in Oswestry undertaken by OS21 has shown that fresh fruit and veg. are cheaper in the Powis Hall Market than in Sainsbury’s and Morrisons. Meat is more expensive in independent butchers, but invariably comes from local sources, and food is more heavily packaged in the supe ...
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Its the Farmers’ Market this Friday … with a surprise
Don't forget the now rejuvenated monthly Farmer's Market is this Friday, 25th June, at the Bailey Head.
The star attraction will be a cooking demonstration from around 10 am by Oswestry's inimitable Walls Restaurant. Exactly what they will show us is a bit of a mystery but its going to be delicious! There will be tit bits cooked on site to relish for free a ...
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The Farmer’s Market Grows!
Market manager David Clough has announced that there will be up to 15 stalls at this Friday's (30th April) Farmer's Market in the Bailey Head in Oswestry. A perfect time to shop for fresh and regional goods for the Bank Holiday weekend ....
How has this renewal of the Farmer's Market happened? New traders have been invited to Oswestry's market and some popu ...
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The Bailey 1992………..
As the Civic Society, CPRE, Chamber of Trade and OS21 coalition poster and leafletting campaign starts to become apparent, here's a reminder of what a busy town market can look like. And hey! It's Oswestry 18 years ago in 1992. Not only is it interesting to see how many stalls there are, both in the Horsemarket and the Bailey square, but it's interesti ...
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Food for thought……………
A recent news article in the ‘Tizer reported that Sainsbury’s in Oswestry has started handing out free storage containers to customers to ‘help people do their bit to reduce the amount of food that goes to waste’. Laudable though this initiative may appear, it is somewhat ironic given the role that supermarkets play in creating food waste. ...
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Markets 21 – the role of markets in the 21st C
Markets 21 A Policy & Research Review of UK Retail and Wholesale Markets in the 21st Century (click Markets21 above for link) <<4.5 The Government’s Planning Policy Statement 6 (now incorporated into Planning Policy Statement 4) states:“As an integral part of the vision for their town centres, local authorities should seek to re ...
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