| Comment | The Barras as-was would never have lasted.
eBay and Gumtree took away the second-hand market, broadband and torrenting replaced buying pirate discs, and there would be very few bargains to be had now that there's cheap Chinese tat in every supermarket etc.
If you want "gas lighters, four for a pound", you go to Poundland.
The area had to evolve or it would die. Some of the old-school traders are still there, but in far smaller numbers. |
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