There’s a Sunderland shopping arcade which used to sell records, bikes, football boots and fishing rods. It is 50 years since shoppers last has a chance to browse round Palmers Arcade . It was long since demolished.
Sign up to our Wearside Echoes Newsletters. A monthly round-up of our retro best bits Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland Echo, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Advertisement Advertisement Read More But plenty of you have memories of it and especially the shops which filled the little shopping mall.
Willie Watson’s for sports gear Here’s a reminder of a story from 2017 when Echo readers remembered the shops and how the arcade had a leaky roof as well as a smell of leather. Willie Watson’s shop was great for all your sporting needs. One reader remembered "walking through and the smell of the leather" while another got his first bike from Palmers "as a reward for passing my 11+".
Train sets from Lermans There was Lermans toy shop where you could get train sets and Palmers shop which was great for push chairs. Advertisement Advertisement There was the music shops which had excellent guitars for sale and Hugh Mitchells shop shop which was just at the entrance of the arcade. Some of you remembered the tackle shop where you could buy fishing rods.
One reader remembered Browns the photographers. Another recalled Reeds jewellers and ple.
