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County Arcade is the glamorous member of the Leeds Arcade family of five. It’s certainly an impressive building still today, almost 125 years after it first opened. With its neighbour and close sibling Cross Arcade, it now forms part of what has been dubbed the ‘Victoria Quarter’ of Leeds. I actually like what Leeds (and…

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The Galerie St Francois in Lausanne is an art nouveau arcade built in the first decade of the 20th century. It slopes downhill, connecting the busy shopping street Rue du Bourg with the main road heading down towards Lausanne train station, the Avenue Benjamin-Constant. The arcade is covered by a curving glass ceiling, with simple…

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Hamburg’s Kaiser Galerie was completely refurbished in 2011-14 and has now reopened as a high-end shopping arcade, though still retaining many original features from the 1907 building. The arcade is in the heart of Hamburg’s Passagen Viertel (Arcade District) running from the Grosse Bleiche street to the canal along which other arcades flow. The entrances…

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The highlight of Hamburg’s oldest arcade is surely the Jugendstil murals, which were basically advertising for Gustav Mellin, whose biscuits gave this arcade its name. Amazingly, these were covered up for nobody knows how long until they were discovered in rebuilding the arcade after a devastating fire in 1989. The other highlight is the 100…

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The highlights of Makinson Arcade in Wigan are the two entrances, with the name in beautiful Art Nouveau script, and the stained glass windows. But also, don’t miss down at the bottom end of the arcade, towards Market Street, there is the original tiled entrance of Makinson’s Teas and Coffees, the shop from which the…

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The Royal Arcade in Norwich is beautifully designed, with lots of original features still visible today. From the frontage, with its ornate script welcoming the visitor over the entrance, up to the smiling face up in the gables high above; there are peacock designs in the decorations above each shop and art nouveau paintings high…

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