I grew up in South East London, Wakefield town centre might not be Knightsbridge but it isn't Peckham Rye or Catford either. It is certainly no worse than comparable sized city centres. Some good new shops popped up and making a go of things - Wah Wah records enough to get me in to town most weeks. Don't drink anymore but seems to be a great pub scene and plenty of live music on. People don't like change, no keen on it myself but what has changed isn't coming back.

As for Trinity - not going anywhere and not changing name. Worse case scenario play at Dewsbury or Fev as a Championship team for the next few years. Refuse to believe the new ground is dead, think the council's hand will now be forced. Oi Box - just underwrite a loan and lets get the thing built.

Hated that place myself. At least it's not there anymore, turned into Lala's restaurant bar.

I know we've had a bit of a thread drift but anyway, as a bit of positive spin about a place in Wakefield. Anyone tried out the new Qubana's, which is where Barclay's Bank was on Wood street. I went the other month & they've done an absolutely awesome job turning that place into something really special imo. The food is exceptional, the roof top terrace they've created, where you can have a drink is really something different.
I went for someone's birthday and they'd hired a special private room out for the occasion, it was all really top class. The atmosphere in the place is also great. All of which is why I've taken the other half a couple more times since.

On the subject of improvements in Wakefield, the Restaurant scene has literally come on night and day in the City. It wasn't really that long ago, going to a restaurant in Wakey wouldn't have crossed my mind, it was always Leeds. But with places like Brazuca Rodizio, Iris, Cow Shed, Joe's Tapas, Olive and Meze & Amaia etc, I rarely have to venture far to find a really nice place to have a great meal out.

I actually quite miss going for a game of ten pin bowling now and again in Wakefield, used to always have a good laugh down there.

I'm the same, i started Ten pin bowling back in the mid 60's in what is now the Gala bingo club on George Street and then at the bowling alley on the old Theatre club site at Belle Vue.
I have kept up playing on a fairly regular basis and still go when i visit my daughter down in Kent as she lives near a Ten pin bowling alley. Thing is there's a bowling alley just up the M62 at Xscape in Castleford of all places and nothing in Wakefield. Looks like we have been shafted again.

I think Kev is right. Wakefield as a town centre has been ruined by a council bereft of ideas of regeneration. Cllr Jeffrey is responsible for Wakefield Town Centre regeneration and is obsessed with trying to turn it into a Meadowhall or Trafford Centre. Any developer at all waving money gets free rein. They are flattening Rishworth Street Car Park and leaving the land as a bait for would be investors. They are not interested in the small businesses that made the town centre so vibrant in the past. They absolutely massacred the market and end up with a few stalls in the ridings! Now they want another multi screen cinema where the old one was! We really are desperate for that aren't we!
Sorry! Makes me so angey when you see what is happening in Leeds for instance, yes, a bigger scale but they know the value of a town centre. They integrate the malls within the city. Trinity Walk simply isolates it. The Ridings added to the centre of Wakefield because it was integrated and connected.
Nuff said