{"id":1847,"date":"2012-06-15T14:03:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcarbon.co.uk\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2019-05-19T08:52:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T07:52:39","slug":"pencaitlands-spar-gets-a-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/pencaitlands-spar-gets-a-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Pencaitland&#8217;s Spar gets a makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Spar Westend Service Station has just finished its 6th makeover in 25 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Best known to many villagers as the local paper and milk stop, the Spar is actually an Aladdin&#8217;s cave of goods. It plays an important role in the village for those who can&#8217;t, or don&#8217;t want to, commute to supermarkets to get their essential groceries.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><figure id=\"attachment_1849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1849\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ralphaverbuch\/tags\/sparmakeover2012\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2012\/06\/karim-pencaitland-spar.jpg\" alt=\"arim Ali in Pencaitland&#039;s recently refurbished Spar\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1849\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><B>Karim Ali in Pencaitland&#039;s recently refurbished Spar<\/B><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>But over and above milk, papers and bread, the shop, run by father and son team Imtiaz and Karim Ali, also provides an off-licence, fuel, dry cleaning, lottery tickets, DVD rental, newspaper delivery (to Wester Pencaitland) and will even take grocery orders over the phone for home delivery or pickup.<\/p>\n<p>As Karim explains, &#8220;Originally we were just going to bring in the new refrigerated units but we&#8217;ve now done a lot more to the place&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Spar is open 7am to 9pm Monday to Saturday and 7am to 8pm Sundays. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ralphaverbuch\/tags\/sparmakeover2012\/\"><b>here<\/B><\/a> for more pictures of the upgraded interior.<\/p>\n<p>Pencaitland Community Council<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/pencaitlandcc\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/twitter-c.png\" alt=\"Follow Pencaitland Community Council on Twitter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spar Westend Service Station has just finished its 6th makeover in 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,236,264,6,344,377,380,390,446],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-imtiaz-ali","tag-karim-ali","tag-makeover","tag-pencaitland","tag-refurbishment","tag-services","tag-shop","tag-spar","tag-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5094,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}