Royal Arcade, London

A subsequent redesigned proposal was submitted with its current layout, and the arcade as it appears today opening in 1880.

[2] With its saddled glass roof and decorated stucco arches, curved glass shop fronts with Ionic columns, the arcade has changed little in the intervening 138 years and retains all its original features, making it a rare original Victorian arcade.

Originally called The Arcade, it acquired its royal prefix when shirtmaker H. W. Brettell was patronised by Queen Victoria in the early 1880s.

William Hodgson Brettell opened his shirtmakers in The Arcade in 1880 (aged 24) and occupied number 12.

Parts of Agatha Christie's Poirot episode The Theft of the Royal Ruby were also filmed there.