3/5 abhro g. 1 year ago on Google
Have
been
going
to
the
Potteries
Centre
for
many
years
and
I
have
loved
going
there
for
the
most
part
(it
used
to
be
one
of
the
best
places
to
go
in
Hanley,
which
is
otherwise
a
somewhat
rough
area),
however,
it
has
slowly
gone
downhill
since
the
pandemic
started
two
years
ago
because
shops
I
loved
visiting
like
Debenhams,
Topshop
(TopMan),
Monsoon
and
Next
have
now
gone
and
the
only
places
worth
going
for
me
now
are
probably
WHSmith,
HMV,
Primark
and
maybe
the
Cinema.
My
other
issues
with
the
Centre
(which
I
have
had
before
the
pandemic
began)
are
that
there
is
no
indoor
food
court
(I
have
always
felt
it
was
a
huge
mistake
to
shut
the
original
food
court
down
years
ago)
even
though
the
Hive
when
it
opened
was
nice
(pricing
of
the
food
was
a
bit
expensive
though
and
some
of
the
restaurants
have
now
shut
due
to
the
pandemic),
more
toilets
could
be
available
in
each
floor,
could
charge
less
money
for
parking
(or
make
parking
free)
and
there
is
no
disabled
access
to
Primark
from
inside
the
Centre
or
even
the
lower
ground
floor
from
the
main
corridor
of
the
Centre
(not
a
huge
issue
for
me
but
very
inconvenient
for
people
who
are
disabled
or
who
have
pushchairs/prams).
However,
even
with
these
issues,
I
still
liked
going
to
the
Potteries
Centre
but
with
the
recent
shop
closures,
I
don't
love
going
there
as
much
as
I
used
to.
That
being
said,
the
Potteries
Centre
is
still
in
a
better
state
than
the
Roebuck
Centre
in
Newcastle
(nearly
dead
&
reduced
into
a
near-empty
indoor
walking
corridor
now)
and
I
can
only
hope
it
gets
back
to
what
it
was
before
the
pandemic
in
the
future.