Lucky seven and new wiki draft on London arcades

[gilius]

Thanks to Tedward for previous discussions on this topic - inspired me to delve further into uncovering London's arcade past.

Lucky Seven (87 Oxford Street) appears to have been one of London's principal arcades between 1970-80, but I've struggled to find any photos:

https://bitsofbooksblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/screen-shot-2015-10-17-at-22-02-13.png

I found out this arcade's previous occupancy was the Golden Egg Restaurant - not far from the Tiles night club:

Incidentally, there's a clearer photo showing the Leicester Square branch of this restaurant from 1964:

https://i.postimg.cc/kGLFgVhs/1964-leicester-sq.jpg

So the arcade replaced this in 1970:


Later it became a Pizza Hut. Anyway, I don't suppose anyone has come across any clearer views of the Lucky Seven arcade...?
Also, I am trying to identify these arcades from a 1970s Youtube video:

Any ideas?
Anyhow, here's my WIP draft I've submitted for London arcades - but it may not get approved for main space. Let me know if you can provide any further references?

Draft:List of former amusement arcades in London - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Bods]

When I was trying to find pictures of one of the bigger Leicester Arcades all I kept finding was Bus Photos from 1980s so I thought Ah that's a new angle to take, specially when said Arcade was opposite the Bus Station I kept looking at all Bus photos and finally found two great photos with the Arcade in full shot and one with classic BMX outside

So you could try same 😊

 

[gilius]

Sure - I've tried searching for other businesses that were nearby - got lucky today with this video - gives a bit more of an impression:

Leicester Square branch never lasted as long: