2009

SJ8857 : Only one remaining

taken 15 years ago, near to Biddulph, Staffordshire, England

Only one remaining
Only one remaining
The fruit and veg store is the last shop to close in this precinct, when it does the whole block will be demolished to make way for a new Sainsbury's supermarket and shopping mall. The shops that were here have relocated further up the High Street, as will this one.
Sainsbury's come to Biddulph

In 2008 the Sainsbury's supermarket chain announced that they were buying the Somerfield shop on the High Street, and opening a supermarket of their own. They then produced some ambitious plans which would involve the demolition of the existing store, the arcade of shops (with flats above) attached to it, an ironmongers, some residential properties and a coach depot on Wharf Road plus several occupied houses and the Labour Club on Craigside. This would then give them plenty of space to build a new store and shopping mall, and include a car-park and bus station behind. After many public consultations and planning meetings the plans were approved.
With the relocation of the last shop in the arcade, work began in December 2009 by demolishing all the buildings between Craigside and the by-pass. January 2010 saw the demolition of the shops on the High Street. It has been quite a tricky job for them here because the bus-stop remained in-situ, and there was only about a 1 foot (30 cm) gap between the old Somerfield store and the Royal Oak public house - which is remaining.
The demolition was finished on Friday 22nd January 2009, barring some tidying and removal of rubble. The builders started work on the same day, erecting posts to attach the safety hoardings.
Towards the end of May 2010, after what seemed endless groundwork, the structure started to appear above the hoardings; and by the middle of June it was possible to see what the final shape would be.
With an opening date of the 3rd of November advertised, things started to get a bit manic towards the beginning of October with work being carried out 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.


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Category: Street scene
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · High Street [70] Other Photos: · Former Somerfield Store · Former Working Men's Club · The scaffolding goes up · Morning Fresh store ·
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SJ8857, 340 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Jonathan Kington   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 27 May, 2009   (more nearby)
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Wednesday, 27 May, 2009
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 883 577 [100m precision]
WGS84: 53:6.9809N 2:10.5755W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 883 577
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West-southwest (about 247 degrees)
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