howard mcsweeney1 wrote:so why did it fail?
Errrrr basically because it was overpriced crap.
https://www.dover.uk.com/forums/dover-forum/war-time-street
On the back of the successful Jorvik Centre in York gullible councillors the length and breadth of the land were conned by the usual snake oil salesmen consultants into thinking that if they could have something like it they too would have a nice little earner without looking at WHY it was doing so well.
Most, if not all of them, have since gone tits up. See the 'Oxford Experience' for example.