That's the wonder of Woolies

For those of you who don't know Woolworth's in St Ives, it's on the main shopping street, Fore Street, and you used to be able to go in at the ground floor off Fore Street, go down the stairs onto another floor that sold paint and screws and stuff for school, and if you went down another floor you came down to the toys floor which was pretty cool when you were younger,and you could walk straight through there and out of another set of doors and you were on the Wharf with the sea and the harbour in front of you. It was less a shop, more a portal to another dimension.

Now it's going to be a Pizza Express apparently, which a lot of people don't like because they think it's going to compete with all the other restaurants in St Ives. Also there's a rumour that the Fore Street floor is going to become a Tesco Metro, which is bad because that will definitely compete with places like the deli across the road and the few inde shops in town that are left. The emmets'll like it though, it's another step closer to St Ives becoming an outpost of Fulham and forcing real people like me out of town. Although to be honest, if I've going to become a hostage negotiator it might not be a bad thing because I'm sure there are more hostage negotiation opportunities in Fulham than in St Ives. Mind you there are probably even more in Camborne, but I've not looked into that yet.

Anyway I was walking past the exWoolworth's building yesterday, covered in scaffolding which at first I took for an art installation by the Tate, but no, it's obviously evidence that work's underway on the building and that the rumours are true. I looked through the front windows between the flyposters, and inside, roughly in what used to bet the Ladybird clothes section right at the back there was a garden shed! So I'm wondering now whether it's going to be a Pizza Express or in fact a Pizza Hut.