TJ Hughes creates 100 new jobs in Southend (From Echo)
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TJ Hughes creates 100 new jobs in Southend
4:10pm Saturday 31st July 2010 in
MORE than 100 jobs will be created when a discount department store opens its doors in Southend next month.
TJ Hughes has announced it’s opening a new 22,000 sq ft store at the old Woolworths site in the High Street.
The Liverpool-based company has invested almost £3million in the two-storey shop.
Chris McKeown, sales director for the company, said: “We are delighted to confirm we are opening a new store in August and we are in the middle of the refit.
“We are certain the people of Southend will enjoy shopping at TJ Hughes. We are the UK’s only discount department store, with a wide range of products across home, textiles, beauty & fragrance, menswear, lingerie, toys and electrical.”
The shop, in High Street, has been empty since December 2008, when Woolworths went into administration.
Ian Robertson, councillor responsible for enterprise, tourism and regeneration, welcomed the new store.
He said: “This is just the sort of thing we want in the town. This is really good news for Southend.
“We are working all the time to attract potential investors for Southend, but these things take time. There are some successes, as this testifies.
“We need to give them a warm welcome to the town and hope that they attract other business to come here as well.”
Both the ground and first floor will be used, with escalators installed between the levels. Work will also be carried out to the outside of the building
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maureen
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9:27pm Sat 31 Jul 10
Concerned in Southend
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9:28pm Sat 31 Jul 10
soul man
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10:16pm Sat 31 Jul 10
Max Impact
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10:50pm Sat 31 Jul 10
Concerned in Southend wrote:So true
How long until SKIPP complains about this too? :P
They will protest about anything that will not fit in with their view of a tree coverd Southend, read somewhere (cant remember where) that the reason the have branched out to protest everything that the council want to do is because of public demand!
This museum they want to build will destroy a scheduled ancient monument that is within the Parks Department compound.
So no jobs, no investment but a small museum that lacks parking public transport and will devistate the park they want to protect...
We are still waiting to see the full plans for what they want to do.
Concerned in Southend
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12:38am Sun 1 Aug 10
Max Impact wrote:Quite! I thought it was a shame the trees were chopped down, but in the grand scheme of things it hardly ranks up there. There's no UN court for arboreal genocide after all :). I read in one of their missives that they speak for "The people in Southend that don't have a voice." They certainly don't speak for me, I disagree with most of their "wider ranging" aims and the ferocity of the council-bashing they commit. Fair play, some things could be done better, but at least they're doing something, rather than leaving the place to rot.
Concerned in Southend wrote:So true
How long until SKIPP complains about this too? :P
They will protest about anything that will not fit in with their view of a tree coverd Southend, read somewhere (cant remember where) that the reason the have branched out to protest everything that the council want to do is because of public demand!
This museum they want to build will destroy a scheduled ancient monument that is within the Parks Department compound.
So no jobs, no investment but a small museum that lacks parking public transport and will devistate the park they want to protect...
We are still waiting to see the full plans for what they want to do.
leighman
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8:51am Sun 1 Aug 10
Tyrrelboy
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9:04am Sun 1 Aug 10
Max Impact
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10:14am Sun 1 Aug 10
Loved the huge line of Tome Zoids they always had in, crazy thing is still got them all decades on, a couple are still in sealed boxies!
southendreb
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10:48am Sun 1 Aug 10
other people for thinkinking the same
They are true people in Southend dont have a voice. most things in the town could be done better.they are doing somethingi suppose but i beleive it is helping cause the rot rather than making a better town.
Nebs
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11:56am Sun 1 Aug 10
gitreal
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12:15pm Sun 1 Aug 10
soul man wrote:Work goes to willing,qualified and the cross-section of the population who sincerely appreciate having a job. Jobs only started being given to overseas workers because a growing trend of the Englkish,sad to say but true,are downright LAZY. No interest whatsoever in the job they are doing,only the pay packet at the end of the week,would have said working week,but some of our workforce,don't know, or want to know what REAL work is.
i wonder how many of these jobs were given to local folk who are born in the uk, or is it all eastern european workforce?
As for the eastern europeans soul man, they are just as much entitled to work here, as you are there.
Part of the EU, remember??
torridpiper
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1:13pm Sun 1 Aug 10
Tyrrelboy wrote:That's handy having an ex manager on the site was it in 1962?
As a former manager of Woolworths Southend, I am pleased to see the old place up and running again. However, knowing how run down the place was I am surprised it only cost them £3 million to renovate it. And how ironic that they are opening up the first floor again 20 years after Woolies closed it down and ripped out the escalators! Good luck to them!
If it was in 1962 that matchbox toy I purchased one of the wheels dropped off how can I get it replaced?
Max Impact
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4:07pm Sun 1 Aug 10
Nebs wrote:;)
Max Impact - SKIPP have "branched out", most amusing.
pobs
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7:53pm Sun 1 Aug 10
leighman wrote:Come on.... they're a Liverpool company, they know how to deal with much more accomplished shoplifters than have ever frequented Southend.
Hmmmmmmmmm. Looks like a whole new shoplifting experience beckons the scum that frequents Southend high street. I imagine they are polishing up their skills as we post!!
Have you never seen BREAD on TV.
MippaChippa
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8:26am Mon 2 Aug 10
vanilla ice
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10:50am Mon 2 Aug 10
Max Impact wrote:You forgot to mention your collection of Dr Who, Sindy ,Star Wars, and Rosebud dolls, it’s a wonder you can get them in your bedroom as most of the spare space must be taken up by pictures & numbers of every Train or Aircraft that has been in or out of Southend since your childhood. I can see your friends who most likely come round and play sometimes totally agree with your views ; I just wonder do the dolls?
I remember when the first floor was open, always was first port of call the Toy section to see what new goodies were of offer.
Loved the huge line of Tome Zoids they always had in, crazy thing is still got them all decades on, a couple are still in sealed boxies!
Max Impact
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12:16pm Mon 2 Aug 10
Don't you have anything from your childhood?
Never collected train numbers or aircraft numbers can't see the point it's like people who collect names on petitions, pontless.
Never collected Dr Who or Sindy and never heard of Rosebud dolls as for Star Wars 99% of the male population of the right age would have had at least one Star Wars figure at some point so yes I am guilty of having Star Wars toys when I was a kid its now with my Nephew as its all played with so worth next to nothing.
Max Impact
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12:16pm Mon 2 Aug 10
Don't you have anything from your childhood?
Never collected train numbers or aircraft numbers can't see the point it's like people who collect names on petitions, pontless.
Never collected Dr Who or Sindy and never heard of Rosebud dolls as for Star Wars 99% of the male population of the right age would have had at least one Star Wars figure at some point so yes I am guilty of having Star Wars toys when I was a kid its now with my Nephew as its all played with so worth next to nothing.
DannyK86
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2:23pm Mon 2 Aug 10
torridpiper
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5:35pm Mon 2 Aug 10
Max Impact
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11:24pm Mon 2 Aug 10
essex beaufighter
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12:20am Wed 4 Aug 10
gitreal wrote:This is so often the case. The individual migrants cannot be blamed for coming here and wanting to work in jobs that we would not or could not fill. Who would not do the same if the opportunity arose?
soul man wrote: i wonder how many of these jobs were given to local folk who are born in the uk, or is it all eastern european workforce?Work goes to willing,qualified and the cross-section of the population who sincerely appreciate having a job. Jobs only started being given to overseas workers because a growing trend of the Englkish,sad to say but true,are downright LAZY. No interest whatsoever in the job they are doing,only the pay packet at the end of the week,would have said working week,but some of our workforce,don't know, or want to know what REAL work is. As for the eastern europeans soul man, they are just as much entitled to work here, as you are there. Part of the EU, remember??
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6:12pm Sat 31 Jul 10