ABC Wednesday - A is for Ashton Market Hall
In May 2004 the famous market hall in Ashton under Lyne burnt down.
These photographs were taken a few days after it re-opened in November 2008 following extensive refurbishment.
The first one is from the Bow Street entrance and the second from the Market Ground.
For more information on Ashton Market see Ashton-under-Lyne.com
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25 comments:
Looks like a beautiful building
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Despite all my summers in England spent covering cricket and tennis, this was one place I never saw ....
I have never been in Ahston but this looks very interesting.
It looks similar to Bolton Market - perhaps they were both built in the same era - when cotton was king ..
How wonderful they refurbished it instead of tearing it down and putting something modern n it;s place. Older buildings have so much character.
Hi Gerald,
Nice kind of building, though it looks almost like a church to me.
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The clock tower looks similar to the one we have here in our downtown area... very nice.
I really miss a good market. I can see market thriving again under this economic climate. I hope so anyway.
What a nice looking market hall.
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I'm glad they rebuilt it after it burned and it is lovely.. Michelle
A place worthy of being rebuilt. Great beginning for ABC Wednesday.
You are lucky to have one such as that. They have quarrelled over building one for the Fish Market here for decades.
Interesting building.
Our small show hall in front of the city hall has burnt in the last days of 2008. It will be rebuilt in another place with a different architecture.
That's a pity.
This is a great looking building. Did it look the same before?
I would love to go shopping there. Very nice architecture!
It's wonderful that the market hall has re-opened. Long may it continue. We love to shop in markets, especially for our edibles, which we trust more than the standard plastic supermarket fare, e.g. garlic from China with a devious deceptive Italian flag on the label I spotted the other day - country of origin was in microprint. We'd rather have local farm produce like knobbly carrots with bits of earth attached and the green bit still on the top.
Gerald, I hope you're well on the recovery road and are drinking lots of sasparilla and dandelion & burdock from the market in lieu of tea!
Now that's a sensible thing - an undercover market! So many are in the open air, subject to wind and rain spoiling the goods and making life chilly for stallholders and customers.
I must go and have a look - I hated the temporary one.
But I'll wait until it stops rainng.
It does look like a beautiful building...but I will be more impressed if that is a real working public phone booth! They have disappeared from almost everywhere over here....they still have them in a few select hard to find places....
That's a striking building. I'm glad it was renovated.
On behalf of the ABC team, thanks for joining the fun.
This is what Burnley Borough Council should have done with their MArket Hall
Ashtonian you are absolutely right of course but sadly the Western fashion these days is for out of town glass and steel temples dedicated to the worship of mansanto's gm products all identical and triple wrapped in plastic and polysterene, by-products of petrol, with on-site petrol stations and airport sized car parks, rather than a central market that everybody, including pensioners and children, could get to on a bus.
nice pics :)
If you didn't say anything, I would never have known this is a "new" building. I'm glad they decided to keep its old charm instead of modernizing it. I've seen something similar market buildings in Washington DC and Boston.
I like to look at older historical buildings. This one seemed to have a lot of character.
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