This month’s reopened window on the shop windows For the second time this year, our window on the Tameside shop windows has been delayed. There is a good reason for this, we have deferred this month’s edition to tie in with this coming Monday’s events. Confused? Well you shouldn’t be, because on Monday 12 April […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, April 2021: The Ashton Review of ShopsThis month’s semi-reopened window on the shop windows This month will see some sense of normality returning to our High Streets – or at least plans pointing us towards a sense of normality. The first part of this post-pandemic ‘reopening’ will begin with our schools. According to the Government’s Roadmap, non-essential retail businesses will be […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, March 2021: The Ashton Review of ShopsThis month’s semi-reopened (AND SLIGHTLY LATE RUNNING) window on the shop windows As we speak, we are now into the second month of what is our third lockdown in England. Once again, non-essential retail premises remain closed, as do our public houses. With recent good news on the COVID-19 vaccines and a drop in the […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, February 2021: The Ashton Review of ShopsWhat are non-essential shops and what are essential shops? Within the last two days, the whole of England has fallen in to a third lockdown. Though cases and hospital admissions are lower than the English average in Tameside, its recent rise in cases is a cause for concern. Lockdown 3.0 is expected to last till […]
Read More The Essentials on Essential Shops: Ashton Review of Shops ExtraThis month’s semi-reopened window on the shop windows We hope our regular readers, old and new, have a Happy New Year. What we mustn’t lose sight of is the fact 2021 could be another bumpy one. The end of this year could see the loss of a few familiar High Street names. We might get […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, January 2021: The Ashton Review of ShopsThis month’s semi-reopened window on the shop windows At this time of writing, four days have passed since the second lockdown. Greater Manchester is back in Tier 3, which in layperson’s terms is a watered-down version of the lockdown we came out of earlier. It means, for at least a fortnight (best case scenario), we […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, December 2020: The Ashton Review of ShopsThis month’s bare essentials only window on the shop windows A lot has happened in the last month to our bars and retail premises. Thanks to the second wave of COVID-19 cases, we are now in the midst of a second lockdown. It is anticipated that England’s circuit-breaking lockdown would last until the 02 December. […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, November 2020: The Ashton Review of ShopsThis month’s semi-quarantined window on the shop windows Under normal circumstances, our shops will be getting ready for Christmas. Not so at this time of writing. With COVID-19 cases hitting record levels, any sense of normality may be out of the question for a year. At the sharp end of the pandemic is our licensed […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, October 2020: The Ashton Review of ShopsThis month’s semi-quarantined window on the shop windows Has normality resumed? Well, in the last six weeks, there was some liberalisation of the lockdown conditions. Then, stricter conditions of our lockdown were imposed – announced only hours before coming into force. Our neighbours in Oldham had even stricter conditions imposed, some 300 yards short of […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, September 2020: The Ashton Review of ShopsThis month’s semi-quarantined window on the shop windows Have you seen any signs of the New Normal, or would this New Normal be a mere interlude in advance of a possible second wave? Whatever happens, August 2020 will be a world away from August 2019, never mind August 2009. Shortly after the publication of last […]
Read More Retail Comings and Goings in Tameside, August 2020: The Ashton Review of Shops
