Closure of Wilson's grocer - How can we save the High St?

[Gordon Mackenzie]

[wangi]

[Bob Jefferson]

[allaboardtheskylark]

[Epykat]

[Bob Jefferson]

[allaboardtheskylark]

[Puerto bella]

[Pal of Porty]

[rmolehusband]

[Bob Jefferson]

Don't you think that the EN should be rewarding us in some way for all the stories we have supplied them with over the years?

[Bob Jefferson]

[Epykat]

We had a loyalty scheme before. What happened to it?
As far as pavement replacement goes, I can't believe they're doing it again! We've only been in this house just over 3 years and the pavements outside our old house on the High Street were replaced a couple of years before we moved. Surely a pavement should last longer than 5 years?

[wangi]

[chessMate]

Hi I have just moved to Portobello nearly three weeks and think its great living here I also work in the area and surrounding area's I am a Social Care Worker visiting the elderly in there homes and just resently was shopping for a client and over stayed my welcome in the parking area out side the town hall and got fined accordingly which I think is rediculous considering it was a free parking area and I got fined the same as if I had over stayed in a paid parking area but both my wife and I do support our local shops

[Pal of Porty]

The pavements outside our shop are really terrible and we see at least one person a week tripping up - so I think that that sorting the pavements has been a really good idea. It also means that as the surface is now so smooth I can get up a really good head of steam when I cycle along the newly paved bits.

[Bazza]

[Epykat]

[SoupDragon]

The parking outside the Town Hall has a time limit, not sure if it's 20 mins or 30 mins but it's up on the signs, think it's to stop cars paking there all day.

I gave up trying to shop in Scotmid a long time ago. The only thing I was keen on buying there was the Cauldron Foods pate but it was not worth the wait at the checkouts for that one item

[Epykat]

In all the years I've been driving and living here I have never managed to get a parking space outside the Town Hall - even for 20 minutes

[wangi]

[Epykat]

[Porty]

[Epykat]

We could run a ferrying service. Couple of rowing boats going back and forwards or each of us could go to NB in our cars and persuade people to come to Portobello with us for the day. Obviously, they'd be bored after 10 minutes because everything's shut on on a Sunday, but we could do some window shopping with them and pass a flask around. I think it might work.

[Bob Jefferson]

I think I see a flaw in your plan. I imagine that N Berwick would retaliate with their own flotilla, nay armada, of sea vessels and round up everyone on the High Street. Once our people have experienced a Sunday in N Berwick they may never come back.

[Epykat]

[SoupDragon]

[Epykat]

[Lambie]

[Puerto bella]

[Lambie]

I had a look at Maddie and Mark's website . I think that's exactly the kind of shop that would improve our High Street. Come down to Porty with the kids, buy shoes, walk them in along the Prom, stop in up at Red's for a family lunch.

New, innovative shops would enrich Portobello and it could become a great setting for a family day out shopping. [/url]

[seanie]

I think that kind of shop would struggle to survive.

[Puerto bella]

[wangi]

[Lambie]