Reading’s Harris Arcade gets listed

This lovely little arcade in central Reading has been recognised and given grade II listing.  Developed at the end of the 1920s it has housed many of the town’s commercial retailers and it is possible that some of the fittings came from Elliott’s (see our article about this company).  Equally the arcade was know for Sally’s Café in the late 1950s and early 1960s when the fearsome manager was a Mrs St Nicholas (aka Baroness Erisso) mother to a teenage Marianne Faithfull, which ensured for a time, that the Rolling Stones known locally as “the boys”, were frequent visitors.

The listing detail can be found here.