Newcastle’s elegant Edwardian Central Arcade is tiled from floor to ceiling. Moulded and decorated faience tiles cover the upper walls and entrance pillars. Terrazzo mosaic tiles cover the floor. Daylight streams through the barrel vaulted iron and glass roof above, glinting on the glossy surface of the tiles and the polished woodwork of the shop fronts. Opened in 1906, the arcade seems to be wearing well. Here are some of the details.
Glazed faience tiles from Burmantoffs of Leeds – Central Arcade, Newcastle – March 2019
Arcade style – Newcastle upon Tyne – March 2019
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Beyond the Window Box 
April 1, 2019 at 6:01 pm
I love the arcades in Newcastle (and Leeds and Paris). We don’t have enough of them in the United States. Arcades are more sustainable and easier to repurpose than our standard-issue shopping mall surrounded by parking—and many of those malls are now dying white elephants.
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April 1, 2019 at 7:54 pm
Arcades have lost out to out-of-town shopping malls in the UK too but they’ve lingered on and are having something of a renaissance now.
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