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HISTORY The Arndale Property Trust was set up shortly after World War II ; it was named after its founders, Arnold Hagenbach and Sam Chippindale . The Trust purchased Bradford's Victoria Swan Arcade in 1954 with the intention of Demolishing it and developing a new shopping centre on the site. Before the Bradford Arndale could be built, a site in Jarrow, South Tyneside was developed, and the first Arndale Centre opened there in 1961. (Jarrow's trademark Viking Statue was built by the Trust in 1963 .) Many Arndale Centres were constructed throughout the UK during the 1960s . They were largely successful, but also attracted a great deal of criticism, as the Arndale developments often involved obliterating old buildings (particularly Victorian Architecture ) and replacing them with modern Concrete constructions in a Brutalist style. At the turn of the 1970s , an Arndale Centre was built in Wandsworth , London; it was the largest shopping centre anywhere in Europe at that time. It opened in 1971 and featured a High-rise development on top of the shopping mall. The Wandsworth centre was Refurbished and renamed Southside in 2003 . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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