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The glass roof over Dewsbury’s Kingsway and its near neighbour Queensway is quite the eye-catcher, drawing the gaze upwards and skywards. There are high, arched stone entrances bearing the names of these covered streets, which were not originally arcades, as the glass ceiling only came some 25 years after the buildings went up. Dewsbury town…
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The arcade in the Welsh Valleys town of Abertillery has been a little hub of this old mining community since it opened in the 1890s. It has three Welsh red dragons looking over the entrance in Commercial Street. It’s only a simple arcade, with glass ceiling and iron gates at either end, but this is…
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The oldest arcade in Bournemouth was built in the 1860s, with the glass roof going up in the early 1870s. It’s a simple walkway in the centre of the town about 100 metres long. There’s an interesting mix of shops today from the oldest resident, Chas. Fox, the jeweller’s, here for over 100 years, to…
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The Galleria arcade in Hamburg might have lots of art deco features, in the overall mood, with its black and white marble shop frames and its definite art deco shape to the entrance to the upstairs apartments, but it was designed in 1976 in a part of Hamburg that had become rather run down and…
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The two Victorian arcades in Halifax run into the indoor market building, which was opened by the future George VI, when he was still Duke of York in 1896. The arcades have the classic glass and ironwork ceiling, with impressive stonework entrances, but they are both quite short and are divided by Russell Street, so…
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Gay’s Arcade was opened in February 1886 just a few weeks after its neighbour Adelaide Arcade. It has a different feel, in part because a different architect designed it. Its main entrance in Twin Street is somewhat more modest than its illustrious neighbour, but inside, it has the same two-storey layout, with units on both…
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London’s Burlington Arcade opened in 1819 and has been a role model for many other arcades that opened up around the UK in the following years, becoming the place to see and be seen, and specialising in luxury. In many respects it is still the same today, over 200 years on. Beadles in uniform still…