Retro (2)

Just about every town centre in the UK has at least one large shopping mall.

Once inside their brightly lit, modern interiors they all seem identical.

Some lucky cities have been able to restore and  integrate examples 

of their original Victorian and Edwardian shopping arcades into their central shopping areas.

I was recently in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, and greatly admired these arcades,

and wished that something of their kind had survived the wartime destruction of the centre of Plymouth.