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offices, S H Chippendale & Co, said that âno immediate material changesâ were envisaged. He added: âIt will depend on how
Broadway develops. We regard it as a site in a developing area.â Work had already started on the adjoining site at the corner of Bank Street and Broadway (now occupied by the Yorkshire Building Society) and this, he said, was bound to have âan improving effectâ on the Broadway frontage.
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Victorian buildings â and replacing them with modern concrete constructions in a brutalist style. "There are people today amassing stupendous fortunes by systematically destroying our historic centres," raged architectural writer
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businessman. The following year, on the same site, building work commenced on
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Arndale Property Trust declared that the arcade was to be pulled down and rebuilt âto fit in with Bradfordâs central redevelopmentâ. Demolition would start when tenancy agreements ended in early 1962 and it was hoped that the building of what was to become Arndale House would
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The demolition was a typical example of architectural purges in the 1960s, when many
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In the months prior to its closure, most of the 112 tenants in the Arcade shops and offices had moved out, and there were only two doing business there on the last day. One was an outfittersâ shop, still filled with racks of suits and coats which the staff were to move over the following weekend to
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In 1954 the
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At the start of the 20th century, mill owners established offices in the arcade, but after many years it reverted to its original role as a shopping centre. The names of the ground floor occupants were originally painted on the windows against a background which shut out the light. So hanging
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Arndale bought it was bringing in rent of ÂŁ15,481 a year from 112 tenants. Most of the offices were on six-month tenancies and the shops were on leases which were due to expire between 1955 and 1960. A spokesman for the Bradford company appointed to manage the block of shops and
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In the first days of March 1962, the last shops closed, the demolition workers moved in and
Bradfordâs only arcade was reduced to rubble, to be âreplaced by a more efficient building to marry with the new city centre.â The Hodkinson and Co/Taylor and Parsons gates were sold off to a wealthy
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The original lift, or chain of cages , never stopped running in business hours but it went so slowly that it was easy to step in or out as it reached a floor level, and no attendant was needed. It was later replaced by an electric lift. In 1924, thieves raided 30 offices in the Arcade.
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style by the architects Milnes and France, and was built between 1877 and 1880 from Bolton Woods Stone by J and W Beanland, at a cost of ÂŁ160,000. The gates were made by Hodkinson and Co, and Taylor and Parsons.
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