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Windsor Arcade

dek carr

dek carr

gone but not forgotten
If I remember right the North Western Arcade had a T junction half way down this came out in Bull St and was called Windsor Arcade ( I think) This is how I remember it after Rachams was Built. Dek
 
dek carr said:
If I remember right the North Western Arcade had a T junction half way down this came out in Bull St and was called Windsor Arcade ( I think) This is how I remember it after Rachams was Built. Dek
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Hi Dek hope you're feeing a bit better. Don't remember the T junction but there could well have been as the office building I worked in above Rackhams/House of Fraser was called Windsor House.

Hi David. Wonder if that tunnel is still there. A very interesting snippet of 'unseen' Birmingham. Viv
 
Here is the arcade c 1971. I seem to remember there was The Irish linen shop close to the junction with the windsor arcade on the right of the NW arcade as you came away from corporation st

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Anyone know if the Windsor Arcade section is still there? I can't for the life of me remember it at all, but Mike's mention of the Irish Linen shop does ring a very familiar bell. Viv.
 
Vivienne14 said:
Hi Dek hope you're feeing a bit better. Don't remember the T junction but there could well have been as the office building I worked in above Rackhams/House of Fraser was called Windsor House.

Hi David. Wonder if that tunnel is still there. A very interesting snippet of 'unseen' Birmingham. Viv
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I worked in Windsor House in the 70's!
Do you remember the tobacconists - Hollingsworths I think it was called -next door to the entrance?

I think the arcade is still there, though I've lived in London for 14 years and I don't get into Birmingham town that often now. the first Body Shop in Birmingham was in that arcade, next to the Irish Linen I think. Wasn't there also a barbers - just trying to picture it all?!
 
Rackhams on Bull Street - the early shop on the corner with Windsor Arcade. Is it usually been referred to as NW Arcade? Love the Edwardian ladies clothes displayed in their windows. Viv.

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