The Arcade, Dewsbury

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The Arcade, Corporation Street, Market Place, Dewsbury was built 1895-1899 and was Dewsbury's first shopping mall. It consisted of Jacobean ashlar renges with three bays.

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

'Dewsbury as it was' by Christopher Scargill and Richard Lee 1983 (plate 21)

West Yorkshire Archive Service: Kirklees hold the building plans under Dewsbury Building Plans 1862-1948, plan no. 5628