Queensway & Kingsway Arcades, Dewsbury

The following source list was originally available only on paper in one of the West Yorkshire Archive Service offices. It may have been compiled many years ago and could be out of date. It was designed to act as a signpost to records of interest on a particular historical subject, but may relate only to one West Yorkshire district, or be an incomplete list of sources available.

These Arcades were built between 1911-1916 and the roofs were added in 1927. They are an unusual pair of parallel arcades running at an acute angle between two streets.

Huddersfield Local History library hold photographs of Dewsbury and maps of Dewsbury town centre. Also:

'Shopping Arcades- a Gazetteer of extant British Arcades 1817-1939' by Margaret MacKeith

'A Photographer's Dewsbury, Shops and Shopping' pages 20-21 by Sylvia Vallings & Lesley Wood 1988

West Yorkshire Archive Service: Kirklees hold the plans under Dewsbury Building plans 1862-1948; plan no's 7064and 7069. Also for Northgate stores plan no 3345 and for the Queensway Arcade plan no's 7064, 7069, 8269, 6152.