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Topic History of: High streets
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Rich	Green Man wrote: What's shopping like where you are Rich? I agree with Sally nowadays on that. The nearest to me GM is the Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre, now a listed building despite only being built in the late 70's. I last visited it 5 years ago next month, in February 2020 just before the pandemic struck. I have never been back again. I used to drop in a couple of times a week. Maybe I'm just bored with the place, it has what you'd expect. I'd been going there regular since it opened back in 1979. I was a local school child who was a lucky pick to go and meet the Queen when she opened the place that summer and snapped a photo right in her face as she greeted me! She opened the actual building to the public but Mrs Thatcher came along three months later and officially opened all the shops within it just after she became PM. I have absolutely no memory of her doing that but there is a plaque to say so. Quite a big deal to get a Monarch and serving PM to open a shopping area. It's where the UK first multiplex cinema opened back in late 1985 just next to it, The Point. Now derelict less than 40 years later yet had some big film premieres in the late 80's. It's now just an iconic shell. Get this too, in 1988 Princess Anne opened another building beside these two which housed a big Sainsbury's and Waitrose for years. They moved out and nobody moved in and a building only opened in May 1988 was recently demolished to make way for something new. Even big buildings are now instantly disposable it seems after barely 30 years. One thing I will say is that the area seems very very expensive to the point of being a rip off, perhaps because we are in that sweet spot halfway between London & Birmingham north to south and Oxford and Cambridge east to west. Fabulous place for cyclists though who have hundreds of miles of routes to themselves, none of this painted line down the side of an existing busy main road kind of stuff like in London.
Sally Nice	Green Man wrote: What's shopping like where you are Rich? Shopping is solely for those who are totally bored, out of their skulls.
Green Man	What's shopping like where you are Rich?
Green Man	It's mad Rich, Winchester does not have many shops, it only seems to get busy during the Christmas period.
Rich	£20 for parking 3 hours and you might browse the shops and not even spent £20 on what you pick up.