Arnold Wilcox-Wood, manager of The Mall at Blackburn, is taking early retirement at the end of the month. He told Shopping Centre that he is fully recovered from his recent illness and expects to remain active in the shopping centre industry so he will not have to resign from his office of chairman and co-founder of the BCSC Association of Shopping Centre Managers and from the advisory board of the College of Estate Management.
Among centres he managed over the years are Arndale Middleton, Basingstoke Centre (where he became also town centre manager) and Crompton Place, Bolton.
Says Shopping Centre’s Eric Williams: “He’s a larger than life character. Farmer, shopkeeper and head of his family businesses, police inspector, Justice of the Peace for the Duchy of Lancaster and Heaven knows what else, Arnold was the recipient of the SPECTRE Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002."
One of Arnold Wilcox-Wood’s last Blackburn duties was presenting the keys of a new Honda Jazz to the winner in The Mall Blackburn and The Lancashire Evening Telegraph’s Christmas cracker competition.
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