Christmas market plans for temporary bus station site (From Essex County Standard)
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Christmas market plans for temporary bus station site
4:20pm Friday 19th October 2012 in News By Will Lodge
The temporary bus station site in front of the Visual Arts Facility
A CHRISTMAS market will transform Colchester’s temporary bus station once it has closed down.
During December stalls with gifts, food and drink and entertainment will occupy the Queen Street site, with a funfair between Christmas and the New Year.
The event is part of a Colchester Council scheme to make sure the empty space is used in the short term before bigger development in St Botolph’s Quarter takes place.
Read the full story in Friday's Gazette.
Comments(10)
Boris
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7:58pm Fri 19 Oct 12
Presumably the Xmas market is going to continue all through 2013, because nothing is going to happen at the bus station site for a very long time.
The chaos at Lyn Barton's Folly will have repercussions all the way round town.
FearNaught
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8:19pm Fri 19 Oct 12
GreensteadResident
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8:48pm Fri 19 Oct 12
Feisty CBC
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9:17pm Fri 19 Oct 12
Boris wrote:Sorry, I have to disagree. The toilets in the bus station are grim as are the ones in the Castle Park. I wouldn't go anywhere near those stainless steel washing facilities, yuk!
The bus station already has perfectly good toilets. There is no need to go into the VAF's posh toilets and thus boost their visitor count.
Presumably the Xmas market is going to continue all through 2013, because nothing is going to happen at the bus station site for a very long time.
The chaos at Lyn Barton's Folly will have repercussions all the way round town.
Boris
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11:41pm Fri 19 Oct 12
Feisty CBC wrote:Feisty, you surprise me. The bus station toilets are well up to the standard of any normal public toilet. If you are only able to perform your ablutions in porcelain facilties, you must find life rather hard in to-day's utilitarian world. Perhaps you should have lived at Versailles in the 18th century. But actually, despite the elegance, even Versailles would have been much too earthy for a sensitive soul like you.
Boris wrote:Sorry, I have to disagree. The toilets in the bus station are grim as are the ones in the Castle Park. I wouldn't go anywhere near those stainless steel washing facilities, yuk!
The bus station already has perfectly good toilets. There is no need to go into the VAF's posh toilets and thus boost their visitor count.
Presumably the Xmas market is going to continue all through 2013, because nothing is going to happen at the bus station site for a very long time.
The chaos at Lyn Barton's Folly will have repercussions all the way round town.
Talbot-Harrington
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9:51am Sat 20 Oct 12
Talbot-Harrington
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9:53am Sat 20 Oct 12
Boris wrote:The visitor does not increase when using the sanitation at the VAF.
The bus station already has perfectly good toilets. There is no need to go into the VAF's posh toilets and thus boost their visitor count.
Presumably the Xmas market is going to continue all through 2013, because nothing is going to happen at the bus station site for a very long time.
The chaos at Lyn Barton's Folly will have repercussions all the way round town.
However it may increase when people are reading your posts artificially of course.
jut1972
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1:10pm Sat 20 Oct 12
We travel to Bury each year for the christmas market wouldnt it be good to keep some of that trade in Colchester?
The VAF is here, the bus station is moving. If you dont like it, dont vote for those who supported it. Constantly carping about things that have happened changes nothing.
Reginald47
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10:24pm Sat 20 Oct 12
Bert_Stimpson says...
4:26pm Fri 19 Oct 12