HAVE YOU ever tried walking from the corner of East Street and Barrack Street, in Bridport, to the kitchen shop in Barrack Street?
Well let me put you straight. It’s a long haul and it is all uphill. So I usually have a little sit down and a drop of refreshment half way up the steady incline, just to get my breath back, when I am undertaking this monumental journey.
In the pleasant sun we had last week I took my little rest outside and couldn’t help noticing this sign. It’s been there for a long time and that set me off wondering.
Just how long is it before an estate agent’s For Sale sign becomes part of the fabric and therefore subject to the same listing and planning regulations as the rest of the building? This one must be getting on for that age. I’m surprised it hasn’t sprouted whiskers.
I cannot see that anyone is ever going to want to buy the old Liberal Hall, more recently a dancing school and theatre.
I cannot think of a single use that it could be put to, short of someone being prepared to throw piles of money at it, and since the present government and their local cohorts seem as ready to sling dosh about as I am to sign the pledge, turn vegetarian and have a metal stud inserted in my nose, there doesn’t seem to be any prospect of that.
What a shame.
I am certain that there must be a use for the old place.
Any philanthropists out there got a good wheeze up their sleeves?
Editor’s Note: This piece was first published on the morning of June 9, but then it disappeared when this whole site was moved from one server to another. Where it’s gone to, we’ll probably never know.
Sincere apologies are offered to anyone who found a link to the original story still lurking on the web and tried to click through but just found an error message. Sorry. Sometimes things simply go wrong.
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The Lyric
A dancing school and theatre… I can remember when it was a cinema (in the 1950s), the Lyric. BTW, can anyone tell me why the reopened Electric Palace cinema has virtually stopped showing films?
Recall & recover
If you bear in mind that The Red Bladder has problems remembering what he had for dinner last night it is a miracle that he can recall that anything used to occupy the building.
I suspect that the Electric Palace find it more profitable to put on their various alternative entertainments rather than showing films. A shame really but they do have investments to recover.