And so the saga continues, after resolutely denying the rumour that they were coming to Harborough, Waitrose this week submitted plans to turn the old Sandicliffe Ford showroom into a new store. The building, which is a furniture store at the moment will be pulled down to make way for a new store and car [...]

The good news for Market Harborough store, Outer Space, is that their planning application for a footbridge from Sainsbury’s over the River Welland to the back of their store, has been approved. As work commences, I’ll post photos of the construction. It’s good to see another St Mary’s Road business doing well. The full application [...]

Having had a quick scout through the planning site on harborough.gov.uk here’s what’s being planned (though not necessarily put into practice) in Market Harborough. Firstly The White Lion pub has a planning application in to make a front entrance off the High Street, rather than side entrance it has now. This could mean a new [...]

Market Harborough could soon have a new Deli on Adam and Eve Street.

It appears from signage and planning applications that a new furniture store is coming to Market Harborough. The Sandicliffe Ford old site, once wrongly rumoured to become a Waitrose,  has had ‘under offer’ notice for while now and a planning application by Kettering furniture company The Furniture Centre Ltd seems to confirm that a new [...]

Meerkat mania is well under way in Harborough after an ingenious marketing campaign for comparethemarket.com goes from strength to strength. It’s been proposed to turn Market Harborough into Meerkat Harborough for a day after our town is twinned with Meerkovo, home of the Meerkovians. I think this is beyond genius and deserves the mania that [...]

With the announcement that HMV have had a tough Christmas selling period, have lost 20% off their share prices and the consequent notice that they’ll be shutting up to 60 HMV and Waterstones stores, it raised the question of whether the Market Harborough store would stay open. The store always seems quite busy when I [...]

As it is getting festive in Market Harborough, I thought I’d snap a few pics off on my iPhone to record the icy, cold, wintery Christmas scenes about the town. Many shops have some great festive decorations and it’s all winding up for a great late night Market Harborough shopping extravaganza on Friday.

Good news for the town of Market Harborough, an independent retailer has taken over the shop that A Casa vacated earlier in the year. Their name is Jussi and appear to sell gift items. I saw a particularly nice leather satchel in the window.

Just as Phase Eight announce they’re opening a store in Market Harborough so does the women’s clothe store East. These 2 stores will certainly draw people to the top end of town, what with Fat Face, Josiah’s and Jaeger, this area of town is becoming quite the clothing area.