{"id":3082,"date":"2013-11-14T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T01:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2013-11-14T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T01:02:00","slug":"church-street-busy-busy-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?p=3082","title":{"rendered":"Church Street \u2013 BUSY BUSY BUSY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Church Street held its open day on Thursday 7th\u00a0November and once again it was a great success. This event is organised annually by the traders in Church Street and attracts visitors from all over Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and even Scotland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3084\" title=\"Church Street Story 1\" src=\"http:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/CHRCHST_STORY_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/CHRCHST_STORY_1.jpg 679w, https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/CHRCHST_STORY_1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>L-R: Alan Stewart (Chamber Vice President), Mayor Cllr. Audrey Wales MBE, Sammy Small (Style and Sport) and William Alexander (The Gift Box)<\/h6>\n<p>The Mayor of Ballymena Cllr. Audrey Wales MBE was one of the thousands thronging the streets. She said <em>\u201cI was in the town just after 10.00am and I could not believe the number of people about. The atmosphere was superb. I visited a number of shops and they were all busy with long queues of people snapping up the bargains. This is a great day in Ballymena and helps cement Ballymena\u2019s reputation as the premier shopping destination in Northern Ireland. I congratulate everyone involved in the organisation\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3085\" title=\"Church Street Story 2\" src=\"http:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/CHRCHST_STORY_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/CHRCHST_STORY_2.jpg 679w, https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/CHRCHST_STORY_2-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>L-R: Joanne and Ben Morrow (Woodsides Pharmacy), Mayor Cllr. Audrey Wales MBE, Alan Stewart (Chamber Vice President) and William Alexander (The Gift Box)<\/h6>\n<p>Chamber President Thomas McKillen (McKillens Footwear) said <em>\u201cThis has been another hugely successful day. We were busy all day \u2013 indeed people were queuing before we even opened\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Wallace (Wallace\u2019s Fashions and Footwear) was equally pleased. <em>\u201cThis has been one of the best days trading we have ever experienced. The crowds were bigger than ever and it is brilliant to see so many people in Ballymena\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church Street held its open day on Thursday 7th\u00a0November and once again it was a great success. This event is organised annually by the traders in Church Street and attracts visitors from all over Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and even Scotland. L-R: Alan Stewart (Chamber Vice President), Mayor Cllr. Audrey Wales MBE, Sammy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40,36,48,21],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-business-initiative","tag-events","tag-latest-news","tag-local-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}