www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/new ... R_SMITH_S/ Soon be flats now.....Guess its cant be a listed building if its burnt to the ground can it?

www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/new ... R_SMITH_S/ Soon be flats now.....Guess its cant be a listed building if its burnt to the ground can it?

Hmmmm, something smells odd, and it ain't just the smoke!

Been quite a few big fires recently in the town.

Probably scousers.

Company wants to knock building down, people protest and stop it from being knocked down, building burns down.

For the record I am very about angry about this.

Or perhaps it was someone from the woodland depth of WBC trying to deflect attention away from the Tree Of Lost Soles!

This is dodgy as Mr dodge playing dodgeball.

im sure its just an unfortunate accident...

Two men seen camping on the car park, 43 year old arrested.



Is Stan the Man in the frame?

Seriously though... Few fires in a number of days in the town now.

My guess is insurance job like many others.

Easier to get demo permission on a burned out shell. What else is the council going to do with it?

This stuff happens with new acquisitions of old buildings. I used to urbex and saw a few sites become burned out husks after having planning permissions denied over the years.

wonder how long before the old market goes up in smoke?

Sad to see it go with it being an iconic building but I was always a "The World" kinda guy. I was more gutted about that getting 86'd in favour of flats.

Never liked Mr Smith's personally. Always full of poseurs of both sexes (much preferred granny grabbing in the Showboat). Even my mates saw the light by the mid 90's. I used to call them all Roger Black........one lap of the place, and they're out.

Still have memories of coming out of the ABC (as was) in the late 70's on a New Years Day, and seeing about a foot of snow....awesome snowball fight on Bewsey Park, afterwards.

When it was re-opened in the autumn of 2011, I was speaking to someone involved in the re-opening night.
He was told that the owners wanted it to be flats then, but the Town Council were INSISTANT that it should be given another go as a night club.
So, opening night comes
No draught beer available
No change in the tills
Broken glass all over the place
Punters going out as fast as they were coming in, because of al the above

Second weekend was a repeat of the above, so, hey-ho, it shuts, and lays idle for 4 years.

I truly hope that the council grows a spine, and tells the prospective flat builders to "love off", and the site either becomes
a) a theatre/entertainment complex
b) gardens
c) even another ####ing drive in car wash
just don't give in to another block of apartments, like the Town Centre needs them, especially at the biggest bottleneck for miles.

This smells worse than Baldrick's trousers

Will the demolition help the building of the new bridges in any way ?

I don't see why they would put a new bridge right next to the existing one to be honest.

The real question is how long before Çasi gets the inferno makeover?

A man after my own heart Mr Goldblatt..

Think you'll be out of it for a few days if you happen to be in the area when that goes in up in flames.