Photographers chronicle how demo crew changed the heart of Crewe GALLERY

THE demolition of Crewe's Royal Arcade has produced a flurry of snaps and video clips on social media.

The sight of Derbyshire-based Cawarden's demolition cranes clearing the site for regeneration has been a looming backdrop for people as they have flitted in and out of town during lockdown.

Work is drawing to a close after the final clearance of Big Bill and adjacent shopping premises in Queensway and most of that fronting Delamere Street. The former Gaffers Row pub in Victoria Street has been left up while a separate planning application was processed.

Much of the site is piled high with rubble and there is a visible hole in the centre of Crewe. But good news is on the horizon with planning applications for a multi-storey car park and a new bus station expected to be submitted to Cheshire East Council next month.

A preview is due this week of what is in store for part of the site, which will combine leisure and retail with a cinema, bowling alley and restaurants schemed in by the spring of 2023 when a new bus interchange and multi-storey car park are due to be completed.

Nub News offers a selection of some of the telling images of the last four months as the town's iconic clock tower and its perhaps less celebrated 1950s shopping arcade was brought to the ground.

Thanks to local photographers Peter Robinson and Jonathan White for their pictures (above).