More than 30 years after its demise, Newcastle's Handyside Arcade is still viewed by many as a cultural and architectural loss to the city.
The Edwardian-built curiosity on Percy Street was a spectacular glass-roofed, horseshoe-shaped construction housing a range of specialist independent shops and outlets.
At the height of the 1960s boutique boom, the arcade was dubbed 'Tyneside’s answer to Carnaby Street' by the local press and became a magnet for Tyneside's budding hippies and beatniks.
