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Construction work well underway at Gateshead’s Trinity Square

Graham Soult December 20, 2011 Property, Regeneration, Shopping Centres, Supermarkets No Comments

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Trinity Square, Gateshead (18 Dec 2011). Photograph by Graham Soult

Trinity Square, Gateshead (18 Dec 2011)

It may have taken over a year to get started following the Get Carter car park’s demolition, but building work at Gateshead’s Trinity Square is now proceeding apace.

Construction of the £150m development only … Continue Reading

Redruth: the Cornish town that lost its Woolies twice

Graham Soult May 22, 2011 Market Towns, Retail History, Woolworths 6 Comments

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Former Woolworths (now Superdrug), Redruth (19 Feb 2011). Photograph by Graham Soult

Former Woolworths (now Superdrug), Redruth (19 Feb 2011)

In my last post I mentioned my February visit to Cornwall, writing about one of the county’s former Woolworths – in Launceston (store #812) – that had closed down many years prior to the chain’s collapse.

When Woolies folded in 2008, Cornwall … Continue Reading

Demolition underway – photos of Gateshead’s Get Carter car park today

Graham Soult July 26, 2010 Property, Regeneration, Supermarkets 3 Comments

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Gateshead car park (26 Jul 2010). Photograph by Graham Soult

Gateshead car park (26 Jul 2010)

In my blog post about Gateshead’s Get Carter car park this morning, I suggested that “…it seems hard to believe that the car park is finally going to disappear from the skyline after so many false starts.”

However, it really *is* going. Demolition began this morning, with quite a few bits nibbled out by the … Continue Reading

Demolition of Gateshead’s Get Carter car park starts today

Graham Soult July 26, 2010 Property, Regeneration, Shopping Centres, Supermarkets 6 Comments

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Hoardings promoting the new surround the old (18 Jun 2010). Photograph by Graham Soult

Hoardings promoting the new surround the old (18 Jun 2010)

Since it opened in 1969, Gateshead town centre’s Trinity Square car park has been many things to different people, but always impossible to ignore.

To some, it has been an icon of the architectural Brutalism movement; to others, an eyesore that has blighted the Tyneside skyline. It is perhaps most famous, however, as a backdrop to the 1971 film Get … Continue Reading

Wallis to open concession in Robbs of Hexham

Graham Soult July 14, 2010 Department Stores, Fashion Stores, Market Towns 1 Comment

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Job ad for Wallis in Hexham

Job ad for Wallis in Hexham

Delivering on its promise to bring quality concessions to its recently acquired Robbs of Hexham store, it seems that Beales has already signed up the Arcadia-owned womenswear brand Wallis.

A job ad has gone live today[broken link removed], advertising the “fantastic opportunity for Sales Advisers and Senior Sales Advisers to join our brand new … Continue Reading