Rooflights over the Wulfrun Centre, Wolverhampton
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Rooflights over the Wulfrun Centre, Wolverhampton
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 19 Mar 2010
Observed from the rooftop car park. The Oceana night club is in Garrick Street. The Wulfrun and Mander shopping centres were opened in 1968, and roof lights were placed across the walkways in the 1990s, totally enclosing the shopping area. Despite this and other modernisations, the recent recession and "credit crunch" have resulted in many shop units now being unoccupied. Wolverhampton has not kept up with "state-of-the-art" shopping, despite the upgrading to city status in 2001. The almost derelict state of some adjacent properties (caused by repeated delays in the Summer Row city regeneration project) has not helped. Many people shop elsewhere.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.583449
Longitude
-2.126321