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Stone arches at either end of Littlehampton’s Arcade show the year the arcade was built – 1922 – and the year it was proudly renovated – 1992. There are attractive murals over the internal wall at one end, showing images of Littlehampton – a lighthouse, beach huts, deck chairs; and in one empty unit a…
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The star features of Birmingham’s 1920s arcade, Piccadilly Arcade, are surely the sloping floor, which follows the course of the cinema auditorium which preceded the arcade on this site, and the ceiling murals, which date from 1991, but paint striking images of Birmingham life. There are lots of classic arcade small businesses in this arcade:…
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The original Passage Lemonnier in Liege was built in the 1830s, making it almost 10 years older than its neighbours in Brussels. But this arcade in Liege was completely rebuilt in Art Deco style 100 years later, so the passage today has more of a 1930s feel. RAF bombing in May 1940, followed by 1960s…
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Galerie Ravenstein in Brussels almost feels as if it’s the set for a 1950s sci-fi movie. It was built in 1958, at the time Brussels was developing into the home of the new European institutions. It must have looked so futuristic at the time, with its dramatic round glass ceiling, its ornate tiling, and the…