The New Moor Market

[Albert smith 11]

Honestly, the design and layout of the new market is dreadful - not sure I would call it a "nice" building by any stretch of the imagination.

 

 

Creating an artificial bottleneck around the meat market and toilets due to the angle of everything was moronic, it makes it awkward to get around if its busy.

 

 

 

Having the smell and chemicals of hairdressing drifting around the fruit stalls is also moronic, no way that isn't impacting on the longevity of the produce and its far from inviting for those of us with Asthma.

 

 

These things were never an issue in the old market because meat/veg and general stalls were all far apart, usually with actual walls between those sections of the market. You didn't NEED to go near any hairdressers and in general the building was so far everything dissipated better.

 

I agree that Castle Market was far from ideal, but what they replaced it with had zero thought put into it. Plenty of stall holders never made the move because it was too expensive and the cold storage options were pathetic compared to what they were used to.

 

Bang on ,add to this the pathetic lay out of the cafe section a mismatch of confusion that is used by many as just a place to sit and socialise .

In the old Castle every eatery had its own section served by the cafe staff who were responsible for keeping the place clean and shipshape .

The atmosphere of a proper market one that can be found in our surrounding Towns of Barnsley, Chesterfield and Doncaster has been ruined for ever by the move from the traditional area.

[EmmaJones76 10]

If you don't like it, you could just stop going in. Imagine if your local pub changed management and the new landlord was an utter cretin. Would you carry on going in?

[dutch 68]

UK interpretation of the word market is very different from the markets I see outside UK.

 

When I tell foreign visitors, here is our Sheffield market they look around and ask me "where?, we don't see a market"

When I explain UK markets are different they have a look around and tell me I'm joking with them, it cant really be a market. They say this building on the moor has become too different and also doesn't have market prices either.

[Dan_Ashcroft 10]

As if they couldn't before anyway, as long as they provided metric as well. I'm dubious as to how much such a rule has been enforced over the years anyway.

 

Good luck to any traders who will go back to just using imperial, but I'm not sure why any of them would. Metric is increasingly the norm for the younger generations, is much simpler from a maths point of view, and surely the generations who feel more comfortable with imperial are an ageing and diminishing demographic?

 

But there you go, that's a big part of Brexit for a lot of leave voters - the older generation giving a rose-tinted, overly-nostalgic middle-finger to the younger generations.

 

Young people are fairly savvy with imperial measures. All unregulated 'refreshments' are sold in imperial (except coke) for starters. "Can I have 3.5 grams of your finest cannabis please", no one has ever said

[melthebell 863]

When will the "new" moor market stop being the "new" moor market?

[paula4sheff 10]

When will the "new" moor market stop being the "new" moor market?

 

When it's replaced by a new one?

[Albert smith 11]

When will the "new" moor market stop being the "new" moor market?

In fifty or sixty years when it's paid for:hihi:

[Anna B 1,414]

If you don't like it, you could just stop going in. Imagine if your local pub changed management and the new landlord was an utter cretin. Would you carry on going in?

 

True, but that's not good enough.

 

A successful, thriving market can be the lynchpin of a town or city, and certainly of a shopping area. Never more so than in these days of nothing but chain stores and multiples.

 

A good market can offer bright, colourful and inexpensive choice, and give a town character. Get it right and it can make all the difference to a retail area, and become the main attraction.

 

Sadly, Sheffield market is none of those things, and the whole of Sheffield city centre is all the poorer for it.

[Albert smith 11]

True, but that's not good enough.

 

A successful, thriving market can be the lynchpin of a town or city, and certainly of a shopping area. Never more so than in these days of nothing but chain stores and multiples.

 

A good market can offer bright, colourful and inexpensive choice, and give a town character. Get it right and it can make all the difference to a retail area, and become the main attraction.

 

Sadly, Sheffield market is none of those things, and the whole of Sheffield city centre is all the poorer for it.

Nail on the head pal.

[Eccy Beach 11]

True, but that's not good enough.

 

A successful, thriving market can be the lynchpin of a town or city, and certainly of a shopping area. Never more so than in these days of nothing but chain stores and multiples.

 

A good market can offer bright, colourful and inexpensive choice, and give a town character. Get it right and it can make all the difference to a retail area, and become the main attraction.

 

Sadly, Sheffield market is none of those things, and the whole of Sheffield city centre is all the poorer for it.

 

I'm all for a good market, but the ones often cited - Barnsley for example, has hardly made their town centre a mecca for retail has it?

[Albert smith 11]

I'm all for a good market, but the ones often cited - Barnsley for example, has hardly made their town centre a mecca for retail has it?

Try it to morrow you will be amazed as to retail the Alambra covered centre is always rammed on Market Days ,as Anna stated the Market areas make a City or Town centre vibrant World wide.

Except for Sheffield that is.

[alsatian 10]

True, but that's not good enough.

 

A successful, thriving market can be the lynchpin of a town or city, and certainly of a shopping area. Never more so than in these days of nothing but chain stores and multiples.

 

A good market can offer bright, colourful and inexpensive choice, and give a town character. Get it right and it can make all the difference to a retail area, and become the main attraction.

 

Sadly, Sheffield market is none of those things, and the whole of Sheffield city centre is all the poorer for it.

 

I think Sheffield Moor Market is all the things you describe. I love the place.