The ovens went into a skip and the bakehouse was marketed for residential conversion by Corbens some months ago with offers invited by a date in June, if memory serves. I do not know the outcome. Anyone who wants to know should consider signing up with one of the services that sends you each months sale prices from the property registry. They are free.
Oh yes, I remember seeing the photos in the paper. I didn't realise the bakery was separate. Just thought that in the future it could become a bakery once again as the rustic one in Lyme Regis.(near the the Mill).. Jugs of locally produced apple juice, home made pizzas served on a wooden board, home made bread piled on a huge, old pine table. Freshly ground coffee served to customers sat on long benches at huge farmhouse tables, whilst sharing conversation, listening to wonderful background music, surrounded by happy faces!! Oh..so the ovens have been ditched..what a shame, never mind,perhaps somewhere else!
That sounds wonderful although I dont know if you could get a years supply of suitable apples locally for the juice. Here is another local suggestion. Local crab and mackerel both make a really tasty curry. Mussels are good but I am not sure how local the nearest are.
What do you want to be able to buy here? Is it likely that a few thousand pounds worth of it can be sold a week? I can think of several thing, like a telephone shop, but the stumbling block is turnover. This is a town of 10,000. A third are retired, a group not noted for being big spenders, the average income of the earners is the lowest in Purbeck, and just about every surviving national retailer is less than an hours drive away.
No disrespect , but do we really need another card , nik nak shop in swanage. I mean do people really think these days about opening a shop thats different or do they just copy everyone else.
When I was a kid there were at least half a dozen food shops between the square and the townhall, plus an assortment of clothing and shoe shops but those days are long gone. If someone wants to put their money into a gift shop good luck to them. Can't say I like the implication of the idea that you should not be able to do that. Who is the "we" who should decide what we "need"? More council officers? More permits to spend your own money?
I have to say I prefer the baubles in this shop to whats in some of the other gift shops.
Actually it is just what we do need. Think of gift shops as an export trade. People come here and spend money in them. That puts money into the Swanage economy. They are locally owned and staffed. The obvious quibble is that more of what they sell needs to be produced, or at least designed here. The dearer the stuff they sell the more likely this is. The hard part is attracting visitors with deep pockets.
What has the shop reopened as??
ReplyDeleteIt's a huge improvement, but sadly I don't want to buy doodahs and niknaks.
ReplyDeleteGood luck to them.
ReplyDeleteI give it 6 months
ReplyDeleteseems to sell a variety of things that are found to the left and right of it.... strange choice...
ReplyDeleteLovely to see the building being used though..
Has it still got all the original bread ovens at the back??
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that Eurekas lease covers the shop area. The actual Bakery itself is probably still 'empty', but as for the ovens who knows?
ReplyDeleteThe ovens went into a skip and the bakehouse was marketed for residential conversion by Corbens some months ago with offers invited by a date in June, if memory serves. I do not know the outcome. Anyone who wants to know should consider signing up with one of the services that sends you each months sale prices from the property registry. They are free.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I remember seeing the photos in the paper. I didn't realise the bakery was separate. Just thought that in the future it could become a bakery once again as the rustic one in Lyme Regis.(near the the Mill)..
ReplyDeleteJugs of locally produced apple juice, home made pizzas served on a wooden board, home made bread piled on a huge, old pine table. Freshly ground coffee served to customers sat on long benches at huge farmhouse tables, whilst sharing conversation, listening to wonderful background music, surrounded by happy faces!!
Oh..so the ovens have been ditched..what a shame, never mind,perhaps somewhere else!
That sounds wonderful although I dont know if you could get a years supply of suitable apples locally for the juice. Here is another local suggestion. Local crab and mackerel both make a really tasty curry. Mussels are good but I am not sure how local the nearest are.
ReplyDeleteGreat just what the town needs another shop like all the others useless if you live here.
ReplyDeleteWhy cant people opening shops here come up with something new instead of just copying the others.
What do you want to be able to buy here? Is it likely that a few thousand pounds worth of it can be sold a week? I can think of several thing, like a telephone shop, but the stumbling block is turnover. This is a town of 10,000. A third are retired, a group not noted for being big spenders, the average income of the earners is the lowest in Purbeck, and just about every surviving national retailer is less than an hours drive away.
ReplyDeleteI always thought that a Wilkinson's 'Local' would be useful, now that Woolies has gone.
ReplyDeleteToo bad Primark doesn't have 'local' shops selling a carefully chosen small range of clothes - clothes suitable to the needs of locals.
Why do "locals" need cheap rubbish? Its quality Swanage needs not trash.
ReplyDeleteNo disrespect , but do we really need another card , nik nak shop in swanage. I mean do people really think these days about opening a shop thats different or do they just copy everyone else.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid there were at least half a dozen food shops between the square and the townhall, plus an assortment of clothing and shoe shops but those days are long gone. If someone wants to put their money into a gift shop good luck to them. Can't say I like the implication of the idea that you should not be able to do that. Who is the "we" who should decide what we "need"? More council officers? More permits to spend your own money?
ReplyDeleteI have to say I prefer the baubles in this shop to whats in some of the other gift shops.
Actually it is just what we do need. Think of gift shops as an export trade. People come here and spend money in them. That puts money into the Swanage economy. They are locally owned and staffed. The obvious quibble is that more of what they sell needs to be produced, or at least designed here. The dearer the stuff they sell the more likely this is. The hard part is attracting visitors with deep pockets.
ReplyDeleteI miss BWISE..... basic cheapish, adult and childrens clothes are lacking in Swanage.
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