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Leicester’s Silver Arcade is a magnificent 4-storey building, with superb balconies running along each floor, looking down on the main walkway, which runs from Silver Street to Cank Street. There are a few anomalies around its exact vintage, however. The claim in glass above the main entrance now declares ‘1899,’ and Margaret MacKeith agrees with…
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The entrance to Duke Street Arcade in Cardiff is in a prime location directly opposite the magnificent walls of Cardiff Castle. Cardiff’s only Edwardian arcade is actually a short arm shooting off from the longer High St Arcade (which will receive a separate entry on An Arcades Project). The arcade was home to two main…
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Chester’s history goes back to Roman times, with many of the shops in the city centre under cover along raised walkways in Tudor buildings lining the main streets. The city’s only arcade, in An Arcades Project’s sense of the word, is St Michael’s Row, which runs off Bridge Street and through the façade of a…
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Sanderson Arcade in the Northumberland market town of Morpeth is rather unique, in that it was completely rebuilt in 2009, but in a more vintage style (Edwardian, claim the architects) than the old 1950s arcade it replaced, the latter having become dilapidated and run-down. Judging by the footfall on the Saturday afternoon we visited, the…
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Kirkgate Arcade in the busy Yorkshire market town of Otley is a bustling little arcade packed with small independent businesses offering a really wide range of services and products. There’s the workmanlike hardware store near the entrance to the arcade, and a traditional sweet shop opposite that; there’s a barber’s, a beauty salon, a vintage…