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I have been wracking my brains trying to remember which store had the stuffed bear at the top of the stairs? Was it the CO-OP? I have been telling my daughter about how scared I was when I was little! Traumatised!! Does anyone know if any photos of it are available? Thanks

I was there in 1959 too. We usually said ,we were going "up Knowlmere Street" more than "th´Arcs". But it was known as both. I have seen it spelt both Arcadian and Arcadium. Whatever!! It was a great place to be and I loved it!! :-)

Think I could qualify as an Old Git being there 1958 onwards??? Where would "Arts" come from?? Arcs I can understand? I used to be there practically every day!!One memory was Sunday afternoons when we used to come out of there at the end of the session blinking at the light! Clifford kept the...

I always thought it was called " The Arcs...". Short for Arcadium??? Have I been wrong all these years?? we used to say we were going up the Arcs!

Thanks Jaysay. I have just realised how much stuff there is on here!! It will take me years to go through it!!

I found this thread doing a search for the Arcadian ballroom. I “haunted” the place 1957-1962 and was on the staff for a year or two. I did the cloakroom and took learners on for the price of my admittance! Cliff and Elena Davidson ran it then. Jim Hacking used to be on the door and was resident...