Former Shopping Arcades
| Name | Image | Year opened |
Year closed |
Entrances | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Street Arcade | 1866 | 1987 | Queen Street Working Street |
Next to Allders. Both were demolished, then rebuilt as Queens Arcade (above). Included the Washing Institute | |
| Andrews Arcade | Queen Street | ||||
| Oxford Arcade | 1970s | 2006 | The Hayes St. Davids Link |
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| Queens West Shopping Centre | 1987 | Circa 1994 | Queen Street The Friary |
Featured a glass lift looking out over the Friary. This shopping centre still exists, and is shown on maps, but all shops are now entered directly from the street or via escalators, so the mall corridors are now inaccessible. The top floor, which used to be a foodhall, is now entirely occupied by one shop. | |
| Wharton Street Arcade (James Howells) | 1924 | Wharton Street Howells |
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| Dickens Arcade | Castle Street | Used to include a cafe and a bookshop in the 80s/90s called Paperback Exchange. | |||
| Old Arcade | 1835 | Church Street | Alongside the Old Arcade pub. The pub was named after this arcade. |
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