Sadly, by the 1970s the arcade had gone downmarket with brash shop fronts and cheap shops, some of doubtful reputation. This project has stripped away modern PVCu and aluminium shop fronts to reveal original or 1930s Art Deco work, with judicious repairs and replacements as necessary, plus stonework repairs and the restoration of traditional London Transport signage.

There is a “fore-message,” a prologue, which introduces the spiritual entities involved, followed by seven visions, and concluded by an epilogue, an “after message” which returns us to the spiritual world.

When Nelly tho’ he teiz’d her, And Grabbled her and Squeez’d her, Cry’d, stay a little, I vow and swear I could kill ye, Another touch I can bear ye,

A man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.