nelly
30-05-2011, 05:26 PM
Oriental City was a shopping centre in Colindale, London specialising in various oriental foods and items. It is located on Edgware Road
The centre contained a large oriental supermarket, and a food court with a range of foods from different areas of South-East Asia; stalls offered Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. The food court was immensely popular with surrounding office workers and the North London community; and often became very crowded at weekends
Aside from the food outlets, the centre also previously housed an import game shop, a Sanrio store, and one of the largest oriental bookshops in Europe, called Asahiya Shoten. In the period shortly before the centre closed down, shoppers could find a tailor's shop, a jeweller, a hairdresser, a beauty shop, Chinese medicine shops, a martial arts store, and a large furniture store. Oriental City was also host to a Sega Dome arcade
Planning application was submitted on the 8th June 2010 to demolish the shopping centre, here are some snippets from the proposal...
1. Redevelopment for mixed-use purposes,with a replacement Oriental City to include a Sui Generis amusement arcade and separately a new B & Q and bulky goods store and a health & fitness studio which together should provide 500 jobs
2. 520 residential units (comprising 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom flats, 4% being affordable) located in eight blocks rising to 3, 6, 9 and 18 storeys
3. A nursery and primary school for 480 children
4. 1,098 car-parking spaces
The Oriental City in its hey day
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Right, on with the photos.....
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The menu at The Hunan Restaurant. I'll have the number 24 with a number 53 on the side, Fried Frog with Pig Ear in Special Sauce!!! Nom Nom!!!
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Visited with, wait for it... Skeleton Key, Priority 7, Trog, Wevsky, Silver Rainbow, Space Invader, Obscurity and a non member called Ben. Yup 9 of us mooching around the shopping centre, it was like it was open again
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n630/nellyurbex2/Oriental%20City/19.jpg
The centre contained a large oriental supermarket, and a food court with a range of foods from different areas of South-East Asia; stalls offered Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. The food court was immensely popular with surrounding office workers and the North London community; and often became very crowded at weekends
Aside from the food outlets, the centre also previously housed an import game shop, a Sanrio store, and one of the largest oriental bookshops in Europe, called Asahiya Shoten. In the period shortly before the centre closed down, shoppers could find a tailor's shop, a jeweller, a hairdresser, a beauty shop, Chinese medicine shops, a martial arts store, and a large furniture store. Oriental City was also host to a Sega Dome arcade
Planning application was submitted on the 8th June 2010 to demolish the shopping centre, here are some snippets from the proposal...
1. Redevelopment for mixed-use purposes,with a replacement Oriental City to include a Sui Generis amusement arcade and separately a new B & Q and bulky goods store and a health & fitness studio which together should provide 500 jobs
2. 520 residential units (comprising 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom flats, 4% being affordable) located in eight blocks rising to 3, 6, 9 and 18 storeys
3. A nursery and primary school for 480 children
4. 1,098 car-parking spaces
The Oriental City in its hey day
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n630/nellyurbex2/Oriental%20City/1.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n630/nellyurbex2/Oriental%20City/2.jpg
Right, on with the photos.....
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n630/nellyurbex2/Oriental%20City/3.jpg
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The menu at The Hunan Restaurant. I'll have the number 24 with a number 53 on the side, Fried Frog with Pig Ear in Special Sauce!!! Nom Nom!!!
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n630/nellyurbex2/Oriental%20City/6.jpg
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http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n630/nellyurbex2/Oriental%20City/16.jpg
Visited with, wait for it... Skeleton Key, Priority 7, Trog, Wevsky, Silver Rainbow, Space Invader, Obscurity and a non member called Ben. Yup 9 of us mooching around the shopping centre, it was like it was open again
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n630/nellyurbex2/Oriental%20City/19.jpg