Eldon Square Shopping Centre, Newgate Street, Newcastle
Eldon Square Shopping Centre, Newgate Street, Newcastle - Two shoppers descending an escalator followed by a security guard in the H&M shop at the Eldon Square shopping centre extension in Newcastle_x000D_
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Laing won the £5.2m contract to extend the shopping centre in March 1986 for completion in October 1987, a second contract in January 1987 to build the retail unit that bridges Blackett Street and connects the old with the new development and a third in May 1987 for improvements and upgrading across the whole Eldon Square site._x000D_
The H&M shop occupies the retail units in the section that bridges Blackett Street, pictured on the day of the centre's official opening by Prince Michael of Kent
Picture No
13495920
Media ID
45393371
Size
6733px x 5295px
(3.9MB)
Credit
© Historic England Archive / John Laing Photographic Collection / Mary Evans
Source
John Laing - Historic England Archive
Date
1987





























