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Coordinates: 42°52′55″S 147°19′37″E / 42.88194°S 147.32694°E / -42.88194; 147.32694
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Cat and Fiddle Arcade
The Cat and Fiddle clock. A cow jumps over the moon
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LocationHobart City Centre, Australia
Coordinates42°52′55″S 147°19′37″E / 42.88194°S 147.32694°E / -42.88194; 147.32694
Opening date31 July 1962[1]
DeveloperCharles Davis Limited (from 1959, designed by Philp Lighton, Floyd and Beattie).[2] Gerard O'Brien (since 2010)[3]
ManagementSilverleaf Investments Pty Ltd
No. of stores and services70
No. of anchor tenants4
No. of floors2
Parking1700 (Centrepoint and Hobart Central)[4]
Websitewww.catandfiddlearcade.com

The Cat and Fiddle Arcade is a shopping mall and hub located in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and covers a city block made up of about 17 buildings[5] at 49-51 Murray Street.

It is famous for its musical clock, which plays the Hey Diddle Diddle nursery rhyme hourly[6][7] with glockenspiel and vibraphone. Cat and Fiddle Square (the location of a food court, and formerly a fountain) also occasionally holds other music events. Along with at least 70 specialty stores, the mall contains a Myer and Target which each cover two levels.[8]

It is accessible via the Icon Complex on Liverpool Street and the Elizabeth Street Mall (close to the Hobart Bus Mall), and bounded by Collins Street. It is also neighboured by other malls in the shopping precinct, including the Wellington Centre (via Wellington Court or the Bank Arcade, it is anchored by a Woolworths) across Elizabeth Street, and Centrepoint Shopping Centre across Murray Street.

The arcade's name is the legacy of the 1817 alley (now called Elizabeth Lane), where at Wellington Bridge over the Hobart Rivulet an inn flagged by a painting of a yellow cat and fiddle was situated (between Charles Davis' ironmongery and John Watt Beattie's photography studio) until the 1830s.[9] Into the 1860s it retained a notoriety as an unsanitary and neglected, but central locale.[10] Charles Davis Limited operated from 1847 to 1984 (and later also acquired FitzGerald's Department Stores in 1981) at the site whose redevelopment they pursued in the 1950s. The 1962 opening was attended by Alderman Basil Osborne.

Major floods have affected the mall, including in 1929, 1947 and most recently in 2018. It received upgrades during 2010 to 2015.[11][12]

See also

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References

  1. ^ "Film - Opening of Cat and Fiddle Arcade. Shows the opening ceremony, including crowds, business leaders, Davis family and members of the ABC Orchestra (which played the music arrangement written by Jessie Wakefield)". Tasmanian Archives. Libraries Tasmania. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Charles Davis Limited retail store development, shopping arcade and Cat and Fiddle Square". NLA. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  3. ^ Martin, Hannah (17 February 2014). "Revamped Cat and Fiddle Arcade exceeds retailers' expectations". The Mercury. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Car parks". City of Hobart. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Cat & Fiddle Arcade". Meyer Shircore Architects. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  6. ^ Rico, Charley (8 March 2019). "What's your first memory of Hobart? We asked, you answered". ABC News. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  7. ^ Mather, Anne (5 October 2013). "Cat and Fiddle Arcade time in his hands with reset for daylight saving". The Advertiser. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  8. ^ "Store Directory". Cat and Fiddle Arcade. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  9. ^ "OUR HOBART LETTER". Trove. Daily Telegraph (Launceston). 21 April 1906. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  10. ^ ""CAT AND FIDDLE ALLEY"". Trove. The Tasmanian Times (Hobart Town). 13 February 1868. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  11. ^ Heyward, Philip (1 November 2013). "Old memories linger in new-look, upmarket Cat and Fiddle Arcade". The Mercury. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  12. ^ "Cat and Fiddle Digiglass". BYA Architects. Retrieved 2 July 2024.

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