The BBC are off to Salford

[scottycelt]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-12429831

None at Shawlands, yet, Floss?

When I was an innocent (relatively-speaking) wee laddie in short trousers I used to get the bus from Clarkston to the cinema there ... there were at least three (cinemas) within yards of each other in those days. Probably none now?

Happy days!

[Flosshilde]

Well, the Mearns is just a short bus (or Range-Rover) ride away from Shawlands, so I'm sure it will get plenty of custom from there.

I'm afraid the cinemas are all gone - at least one has been converted to flats.

[Curalach]

there were at least three (cinemas) within yards of each other in those days. Probably none now?

The Embassy, The Elephant ( yes really!) and the Waverley. Reminds me of my early "winching" days.

[scottycelt]

The Embassy, The Elephant ( yes really!) and the Waverley. Reminds me of my early "winching" days.

That's the ones!

There was also a Mayfair at Battlefield, plus another two smaller ones around the corner on the main road (names I can't remember), then the Vogue and George and finally the Toledo a bit further on towards Clarkston, where Scottycelt had his early winching moments (more often than not 'moments' being easily the most appropriate word ).

There was also a Tudor at Giffnock?

[Alain Maréchal]

I've lived and worked in two capital cities, and two provincial ones, and having sampled both types of life, I'm with Touchstone on this:

In respect of itself, it is a good life...Now in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.

A national or international organisation needs to be in a capital city to have any credible authority.

[MrGongGong]

I've lived and worked in two capital cities, and two provincial ones, and having sampled both types of life, I'm with Touchstone on this:

In respect of itself, it is a good life...Now in respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.

A national or international organisation needs to be in a capital city to have any credible authority.

what nonsense
the BBC is still going to have things going on in London

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

A national or international organisation needs to be in a capital city to have any credible authority.

A "capital" city is nothing more than a title for school atlases.
The United Nations is in New York - not a capital city.
Strasbourg is not a capital city.
Neither is Geneva.
Edinburgh is a capital city, but it is dwarfed by Glasgow.
The Netherlands/Holland has two capitals.
Brasilia and Canberra have very little clout when compared with Rio de Janeiro and Sydney.

[Alain Maréchal]

The BBC will doubtless have things going on in London, but if it moves its centre of thinking out of London, it will think provincially.

I was using 'capital' loosely and culturally, not politically: for example Strasbourg is a dull provincial city , which is why MEPs hate sessions there, and nobody in the Netherlands would acknowledge Den Haag as a centre of culture. London dwarfs all other UK cities in that respect, nowhere else even approaches it. Just in case anybody wonders, yes I have visited Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh and found them, well, provincial is the word.

[barber olly]

Why on earth would anyone want to live or work anywhere near London anyway, any offer of relocation should surely be gratefully grabbed.

[MrGongGong]

The BBC will doubtless have things going on in London, but if it moves its centre of thinking out of London, it will think provincially.

London is not really representative of the UK as a whole anyway .........
I frequently work in London and sometimes find people completely ignorant of the rest of the UK preferring to think that everything happens within the M25
which it clearly doesn't .........

Radio 3 is based a BH and isn't planning to move anyway
neither is radio 4 (as far as i'm aware ?)

Daytime TV is hardly a "centre of thinking"

[Alain Maréchal]

Isn't the point of this thread that the BBC is slowly moving out of London? That's certainly the impression given out.
In view of the fact that London represents economically a substantial part of the UK, I rather think it is representative. I offer the suggestion that to see London as unrepresentative, when in international terms it is so, is itself an example of provincial rather than London-based arrogance.
I'm not personally biased in London's favour, now living elsewhere, but nobody would expect to get a national viewpoint from Nantes, Munich or Liege, so why expect one from Manchester?

[Flosshilde]

nobody would expect to get a national viewpoint from Nantes, Munich or Liege, so why expect one from Manchester?

Perhaps because Manchester doesn't see itself as the centre of the universe it realises that things happen elsewhere, something the London-based media tend to forget. London isn't so much provincial as parochial.

Alain, what exactly do you mean by 'provincial'? Yes, I know what 'provincial' means, literally, but what do you mean when you use the term. And how long were your visits to Glasgow, Edinburgh & Manchester? I would suggest that you have to live in a place before you can decide if it's provincial or not.

[Stunsworth]

Do Waitrose have branches anywhere in the North? I've always thought it's mainly Aldi and Lidl, or Morrisons if you're feeling a bit posh.

Yes they do have branches, unfortunately they only sell tripe and pickled ferret.

[burning dog]

At least people moving from Maidenhead to Salford will get away from Man Utd supporters.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

At least people moving from Maidenhead to Salford will get away from Man Utd supporters.

...and away from narrow-minded people who think nothing worthwhile could possibly happen outside London.