Sunday, October 30, 2005
Continental market
Council goes continental
Following the limited success of the "Continental Market" held on a Sunday last year, the Council is going ahead with a larger scale experience this week. Last year's events attracted about a dozen stall holders, who struggled to attract sales, mainly because their overheads and travel made the adventure rather expensive.
Shoppers were invited to spend around GBP 3.00 for a French pancake, when the price of a dozen eggs was less than GBP 2.00. Similarly a lady from Belgium found it difficult to sell tea towels printed with scenes from Ostende and Bruges!
Perhaps what turned shoppers away in droves was the sound of Dale Meeks (Simon Meredith in Emmerdale) wailing and hollering as part of his musical adventure "Shake Your Tailfeather".
This year more than 30 stalls from France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Tunisia, Spain, and Persia will line both sides of King Street from the 3rd. to 6th. November. The new Waterloo Square development will also see the opening of Debenhams and BHS on Wednesday, so South Shields ought to offer an interesting shopping experience, particularly on Friday and Saturday when the usual markets will take place in the Market Place. Read more here.
In line with South Tyneside's policy of spinning the publicity to excess I have commisioned a publicity poster for the event, naturally it includes the most photogenic of our representatives, my old pal the onion seller, Cllr. Foreman (why miss another photo-opportunity Jim?)
Click the thumbnail to enlarge
Remember, King Street is amongst the safest roads in the U.K. with no traffic related fatalaties or serious injuries recorded in the past year - it is also pedestrianised!
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Following the limited success of the "Continental Market" held on a Sunday last year, the Council is going ahead with a larger scale experience this week. Last year's events attracted about a dozen stall holders, who struggled to attract sales, mainly because their overheads and travel made the adventure rather expensive.
Shoppers were invited to spend around GBP 3.00 for a French pancake, when the price of a dozen eggs was less than GBP 2.00. Similarly a lady from Belgium found it difficult to sell tea towels printed with scenes from Ostende and Bruges!
Perhaps what turned shoppers away in droves was the sound of Dale Meeks (Simon Meredith in Emmerdale) wailing and hollering as part of his musical adventure "Shake Your Tailfeather".
This year more than 30 stalls from France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Tunisia, Spain, and Persia will line both sides of King Street from the 3rd. to 6th. November. The new Waterloo Square development will also see the opening of Debenhams and BHS on Wednesday, so South Shields ought to offer an interesting shopping experience, particularly on Friday and Saturday when the usual markets will take place in the Market Place. Read more here.
In line with South Tyneside's policy of spinning the publicity to excess I have commisioned a publicity poster for the event, naturally it includes the most photogenic of our representatives, my old pal the onion seller, Cllr. Foreman (why miss another photo-opportunity Jim?)
Click the thumbnail to enlarge
Remember, King Street is amongst the safest roads in the U.K. with no traffic related fatalaties or serious injuries recorded in the past year - it is also pedestrianised!
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