Clarendon Arcade will be embraced by many
One can only wonder where these people were in the 1970s, when along the road from La Coppola, stood a shop, with the upper floor a empty shell with no frontage. A complete eye sore, it was like this for many years. At this time there were five department stores north of the river and a far more diverse range of shops, than are here today. Think, Casa Fina, now Cafe Rouge.
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Hide AdPeople love shopping malls, as do I, from visiting my first in America, 40 years ago, to the malls of Dubai, last year and Westfield, London at Christmas. Two factors have inhibited growth in Leamington. The decisions not to pedestrianise the Parade and not to dual carriageway, the road to Kenilworth.
The Clarendon Arcade, will be welcomed and embraced by the majority of the public. I suspect that they, like me, will have nothing in common with R.P. Taylor, the Leamington Society, Janet Alty and her Green Party and Cllr Copping and his Liberals. - Graham K. Beattie, via email.