The Peacocks (Woking)

Interior in the style of Aston Webb (d.1930). Three cream-white galleries, pair of cream-white escalators, paired glass-projection elevators with floor-offset white-grey banding to elevator column, glass multi-panel centre of alcoved and then recess-lined hipped roof.

Woking Shopping or The Peacocks is a multi-storey shopping and leisure centre in Woking, Surrey, England construction of which completed in 1992 providing approximately 90 consumer service/retail units; nine varieties of daytime restaurants, fast food shops and cafés and a link to the area's largest theatre and cinema with entrances outside and within the centre itself.

History

The 500,000 square feet (46,000 m²) centre as The Peacocks was opened in April 1992 and contained a department store, a 1200-seat theatre, three cinemas, a nightclub and a library.^[1] A £1.5 million extension was added in 2010 that included a new entrance facing Town Square.^[2][3] Developed by the London and Edinburgh Trust including a partnership with Woking Council it was designed by Chapman Taylor Partners. It was then owned by British Land until 2008 when it was sold to a private investor for £116 million.^[4]

References

External links

• http://www.woking-shopping.co.uk/ Woking Shopping Centre

Borough of Woking
Towns, villages and hamlets	Brookwood Byfleet Castle Green Goldsworth Park Horsell Knaphill Mayford Mimbridge Old Woking Pyrford Sheerwater Sutton Green Westfield West Byfleet Woking
Parks	Horsell Common Westfield Common Woking Park
Places of worship	All Souls' Church, Sutton Green Christ Church, Woking Church of St Andrew, Goldsworth Park Church of St. Edward the Martyr, Brookwood Church of St Mary the Virgin, Horsell St Dunstan's Church, Woking St John's Church, Woking St Mark's Church, Woking St Peter's Church, Old Woking Shah Jahan Mosque
Education	The Bishop David Brown School Hoe Valley School St John the Baptist School, Woking Tante Marie The Winston Churchill School, Woking Woking College Woking High School
Transport	Brookwood railway station Byfleet and New Haw railway station West Byfleet railway station Woking railway station
Buildings and structures	Brookwood Cemetery Brookwood Hospital Export House Kingfield Stadium McLaren Technology Centre New Victoria Theatre The Peacocks Shopping Centre Newark Priory Sutton Place Woking Crematorium
Sport	Football Knaphill F.C. Sheerwater F.C. Westfield F.C. Woking F.C. Hockey Woking Hockey Club