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It seems to say "arcad" (presumably arcade) on the door, and also on the windows to the right if you get out the image processing software.

Sharman D. Neill, Belfast ??

beachcomber australia I'm not sure the window's the right shape for that. About the right number of clocks, though. I was just trawling the Queen's Arcade myself. Edit: On second thoughts (well, glance), I think you may be right. It seems to have the same clock over the door.

nicely done

The "Arcade" writing must actually be across the road, not over the door. Neill's is directly opposite the Queen's Arcade.

Is "Old Time" like God's time we heard about a while back, meaning none of that Government Daylight Savings nonsense?

Is there some relationship to this Hickey?

It is rather timeless - we had a store in Belfast that I was taken into often in the early sixties and even the clothing on display looked like this! It had money tubes.

Vab2009 There's an old time department store in central Reading that hasn't changed much from those days. Still has the pneumatic money tube system working. www.jacksonsofreading.co.uk/about.htm www.dooyoo.co.uk/department-stores/jacksons/179983/

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyelightfilms] Pneumatic Tube Transport Systems are still manufactured by Quirepace Lamson, formerly Lamson Paragon. I remember the wooden ball Cash Carrier system in Co-op shops in the 1950s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_Carrier