Title

Queensgate Centre, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, 19/04/1982. Creator: John Laing plc.

Caption

Queensgate Centre, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, 19/04/1982. An interior view of Queensgate Shopping Centre taken from the Central Square escalator, showing the entrance to British Home Stores. The contract for the Queensgate Centre, located in the heart of Peterborough, was awarded to Laing in 1975. Various planning enquiries and design changes delayed the start of the work however the inauguration ceremony finally took place in April 1978. The multi-level shopping centre was designed with a large car park and a new bus station, and many well-known retailers such as John Lewis, British Home Stores and Littlewoods were to occupy the larger stores. The complex was opened to the public on 9th March 1982.

Date

1982

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM22A18_131

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

100,6Mb (5,2Mb) / 22,3in x 17,5in / 6683 x 5262 (300dpi)

Keywords

building England people interior architecture shopping shop shops country British English color location century shopper Britain inside department store peterborough cambridgeshire Eighties Colour Construction Industry Indoors 1980s emporium 20th century decade TGN shopping centre photograph Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc John Laing & Co John Laing and Company John Laing & Company John Laing and Co Queensgate Centre BHS British Home Stores