Step back to Jarrow town centre in 1953 ... old buildings were swept away in the early 1960s to make way for the new Arndale shopping precinct. Our striking then-and-now images come from the ...

Jarrow’s Arndale shopping centre, for example, has been trading for over a half a century. The late 50s and early 60s were also a time when working people had more money in their pockets than ...

This week’s pictorial nostalgia trip takes us back to the days when most people went out for a daily shop rather than staying at home and buying things from the internet. Did you know with a ...

Arndale Centres were the first American-style malls to be built in the UK. The first opened in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, in 1961. The sale follows a number of recent investment deals in the Yorkshire ...

The first phase began in 1972. By then Arnold and Sam had already proven their concept was sound by building the first Arndale Centre in Jarrow, in the North-East of England, which opened in 1961.