Quote ="Khlav Kalash"Seems they’re not planning on taking up the vacated Sainsbury’s store on Ings Road but setting up camp a few hundred metres up the road. Massive store by the looks of it. With this and the one earmarked for Cas they really are aggressively targeting the area. https://planning.wakefield.gov.uk/onlin ... U11QQ90000'" Just for the record i know from an very good source, Tesco were never going into the old sainsburys store on ings road as sainsburys hold the lease on the building. Watch the press for news on the Sainsburys ings road site you may be surprised

Quote ="Khlav Kalash"Seems they’re not planning on taking up the vacated Sainsbury’s store on Ings Road but setting up camp a few hundred metres up the road. Massive store by the looks of it. With this and the one earmarked for Cas they really are aggressively targeting the area. https://planning.wakefield.gov.uk/onlin ... U11QQ90000'" Just for the record i know from an very good source, Tesco were never going into the old sainsburys store on ings road as sainsburys hold the lease on the building. Watch the press for news on the Sainsburys ings road site you may be surprised

I'd heard that Matalan (& i forget who) were going into the Sainsbury's building & that Tesco were then building a big store where Matalan ,old MFI etc . are.
Then a mate , who's wife works for Sainsbury's , told me this morning that Sainsbury's had realized what a balls up they'd made by going to Trinity Walk & were going to go back into Ings Road again !

I remember cutting a coupon out of the Wakey express and taking it Tandy, on the Springs, the week it opened for a massive free torch.

Never replaced the batteries. Never went in Tandy again.

We once took my skateboard into Woolworths and ride down that slope the had down the middle aisle.

Once

Cheesecake- You mean cake made of cheese. Not in my lifetime

Without saying too much 2 Sainsbury stores in wakey before xmas, Trin walk staying open!!!

Without saying too much 2 Sainsbury stores in wakey before xmas, Trin walk staying open!!!

Good - used to nip round there quite a bit at dinnertime before it shut - v. handy . Whoever signed up to move to trinity walk must be off their rocker

I was at Snapethorpe school when Leo's opened. We had the afternoon off school and I am sure I did not dream they had a baby lion on the grand opening day.

Used to go there from Thornes House to shop-lift our dinner, having spent dinner money on fags. Separates mind you, in a paper bag, with the requisite number of matches in the bottom - god help you if it was a windy day and your match:fag ratio went awry.

We used to sneak off at lunch time from Thornes House and have a pint in the tap room of the Clothiers or the one in the park Holmfield House I think they called it. Some of the teachers used to go in. It was a if you dont tell we wont tell kind of deal. We would put on non school ties to make us look older and send the kid with the tache to the bar for the drinks.

Do we know each other?

I left 84. Have not lived in Wakefield for years though. Thornes House was a riot. I know it had a a bad reputation however, I loved it. Most of the kids were delinquents however, I would not have changed a minute. If your from that era you will remember Pips in town on a Monday and I think Thursdays. Young dumb and full of you know what. We were kings of the world.

We used to sneak off from Thornes House to see the strippers at the Speakeasy on a Friday lunchtime! We also used to go in the trinity room in the Mitre,needless to say the afternoon lessons were a bit of a blur.

I left in 86 so we will have crossed paths; got to agree with you - it was a tough place to be at times, but they were great days.

It was called the intercom before pips ,then next door for fisticuffs in strafford arms.what ever happened to good nights out?

It's weird thesedays - todays youth seem to start their nights out around midnight, so Wakey centre is dead at what used to be the busy period of 8-11. What used to be called the 'walk of shame' now appears to be the norm.

Hey ho - another sign of getting old I suppose.

General Info. live VERY close to the proposed site and and a few weeks ago all residents had a letter from Tesco outlining the plans.Said plans were very confusing as they do involve radical changes to the site with regards to access and layout.Believe it or not this is a quiet place to live but the few other residents I have spoken to seem to have no objections and neither do I.The plans do seem to take in the old Sainsburys store and being a daily customer at Sainsburys garage I questioned this and this was confirmed by staff.Hope this clears up any confusion.Oh an talking of old stores me old Mum bless her soul used to be Manageress of OOBIDOO/AVaGander back in the days an I was chief satday lad lol.

sainsbury's to reopen store on ings road...watch this space!!!

What about the one at Trinity Walk? Can't see them wanting two stores within less than a mile of each other!

that's what I was told by a mate of mine who works at Sainsbury's planning team in London (he covers the north of england).

That is also what i've heard, the one at Trinity Walk isn't hitting anywhere close to the sales figures expected. Can't see them pulling out of Trinity Walk though, i'd imgine they're tied down to a long contract

I can catagorically state that both Sainsburys stores will remain open, both the one at trinity walk and the re-opened sainsburys on ings road. The one on ings road will be a food store and trinity walk will continue as it is now. More details will be revealed in tomorrow's wakefield express. It may also mean there is no tesco as matalan and the other business that they wanted to relocate to the old sainsburys site no longer are able to relocate.

That would make sense of the strange plans that Tesco provided,either way they need to do something on there sharpish.

Just been in trinity walk and Sainsburys are advertising big time that Ings road store is opening up again in Seven weeks. Staff are telling everyone