Do love to see a ‘Play Me’ piano when we’re out & about #highstreet #placemaking.
🚆 As we’re committed at #TheVacantShopsAcademy to travel by train wherever we can, it’s especially great to see them at rail stations.
This one is at Leamington Spa which, as the pictures show, is also one of the very well looked after stations we stop at.
🎹 I can also remember seeing pianos to play at Manchester Piccadilly & Dundee stations.
Who else has examples…? Do let us know.
🚏 It’s part of a regular theme of our tackling vacancy ‘next steps’ suggestions for places, that local teams should take themselves to all their town or city centre arrival points: rail station, bus, car parks etc., assess the welcome there, check that wayfinding and signage guides visitors to the routes we’d like them to take into the centre, and think about the first impression that journey gives them.
🫣 It’s amazing how often we find some or more parts of that aren’t great because, as locals, we know where we’re going and maybe aren’t paying 💯 attention to things visitors might notice along the way. Do try it if you haven’t…!
As a Ps: those who can will be able to tell that I have no clue how to play and am just sitting here for effect…! 😉
