Locals ‘devastated’ as Hartlepool’s indoor market closes

Members of the public expressed their sadness at the closure of Middleton Grange’s indoor market after half a century.

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00:00I'm devastated. I love the indoor market. I mean it's been getting quieter and quieter over the

00:05years but I used to go there with my granddad all the time. We used to get like bird feed,

00:09go out by the memorial and you know feed the birds and such like but I always go in there

00:13for like fresh meat. I go in there for toys like little daft like stocking fillers at Christmas

00:18so it sucks. It's just it's a way of the world. I mean I'm 65 years old and I know for a fact

00:26it used to be busy, bustling. It's just gone downhill now hasn't it and then everything's

00:31just like people shop online, people don't come out. I mean the shopping centre's dilapidated

00:37never mind the market. The full place is dying to death. It hasn't really been much of an indoor

00:42market for a long time but gone are the years like Lynn Street where we had Billy Brett's and

00:48you name it was in there and it moved up here and then gradually and gradually it just disappeared

00:54which is a shame. Anytime a business goes out it's a sad time and I don't know where they'll

01:00move to, no one's really talking about anything but I hope the best for them.