Who's ready for a new arrival in The Galleries.
It will be with us in 2024 and the news gives us a chance to share these archive Echo scenes from the shopping centre, right back to the day it first opened.
Maybe you were there when Princess Anne paid a visit in 1974.
Or when the Home Secretary was almost run over by trollies in 1983.

5. Cheers to the Sirroco
Inside the Sirroco Club which we visited in The Galleries in December 1983. | se

6. A near miss in 1983
The Home Secretary William Whitelaw had a "close encounter of the trolley kind" when he visited The Galleries in 1983. He narrowly missed being run down by a trolley "train" when he went walkabout. | se

7. Bluebirds in Washington
Nissan Bluebirds got plenty of attention when they went on show in the shopping centre in 1986. | se

8. Flipping it back to 1989
They were ready to race in this Galleries pancake scene from 34 years ago. | se

