Mike Yarrington recently popped into Google Maps and took a virtual wander along O'Connor Street using Streetview.
Unless you actually worked at Arnolds or were familiar with the area back in the 1960s & 70s, you would never recognise the place.
In this first view, that plate-glass fixture on the left was the roller door to the loading dock.
The windows immediately above were in the paint shop and just beyond was the electrical shop.
The doorway near the second tree along was the main entrance to the building and the stairs.
This second shot shows the corner of the building, at Blackfriar's Lane.
The park was to the left of that lane-way, which led around the back of the building.
Do you remember the hoisting-stage on the first floor, at the back of the building?
Looking back down O'Connor Street to the Arnolds building and the new apartments on the corner where the park used to be.
The view from diagonally opposite the "park" (now the reddish apartments).
Many thanks to Mike Yarrington for providing these captures, which are also similar to those provided by John Inglis and which were featured on the original web-site.
When you've finished browsing them, here's a reminder of what it looked like in our day. Photo taken and provided by John Inglis.
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