{{Short description|Shopping mall in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox shopping mall | name = Cat and Fiddle Arcade | image = Cat-and-fiddle-arcade1.jpg | caption = The Cat and Fiddle clock. A cow jumps over the moon | location = [[Hobart central business district]], Australia | coordinates = {{coord|42|52|55|S|147|19|37|E|type:landmark_region:AU|display=inline,title}} | opening_date = 31 July 1962<ref name="TAHO">{{cite web |title=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) |url=https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/Archives/NS643-1-33 |website=Tasmanian Archives |date=31 July 1962 |publisher=Libraries Tasmania |access-date=2 July 2024}}</ref> | developer = [[Charles Davis (department store)|Charles Davis]] (from 1959, designed by Philp Lighton, Floyd and Beattie<ref>{{cite book |title=Charles Davis Limited retail store development, shopping arcade and Cat and Fiddle Square |date=1959 |publisher=Mercury |location=Hobart |pages=3 |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/620878 |access-date=2 July 2024 |archive-date=2 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240702023830/https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/620878 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Notes and News |journal=Royal Australian Planning Institute Journal |date=1963 |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=133–36 |doi=10.1080/00049999.1963.11509724 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00049999.1963.11509724 |access-date=2 July 2024|url-access=subscription }}</ref> with planning by Hartley Wilson and [[Dirk Bolt]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Calder |first1=Norma |title=Feature Article - Significant Tasmanian architecture of the 20th century |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/featurearticlesbyCatalogue/34FECD10B8D42C82CA256C32002417B7?OpenDocument |access-date=2 July 2024 |work=1301.6 - Tasmanian Year Book, 2000 |agency=ABS |date=13 September 2002}}</ref>). Gerard O'Brien (since 2010)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=Hannah |title=Revamped Cat and Fiddle Arcade exceeds retailers' expectations |url=https://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/revamped-cat-and-fiddle-arcade-exceeds-retailers-expectations/news-story/23a4792e59eb738688f52c5459438e8b |access-date=2 July 2024 |agency=The Mercury |date=17 February 2014}}</ref> | manager = Silverleaf Investments Pty Ltd | owner = | number_of_stores = 70 | number_of_anchors = 2 | floor_area = | parking = 1700 (Centrepoint and Hobart Central)<ref>{{cite web |title=Car parks |url=https://www.hobartcity.com.au/City-services/Parking/Car-parks |website=City of Hobart |access-date=1 July 2024 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701052532/https://www.hobartcity.com.au/City-services/Parking/Car-parks |url-status=live }}</ref> | floors = 2 | website = {{URL|https://www.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<ref>{{cite web |title=Cat & Fiddle Arcade |url=https://meyershircore.com.au/project/cat-fiddle-arcade/ |website=Meyer Shircore Architects |access-date=1 July 2024}}</ref> at 49-51 [[Murray Street, Hobart|Murray Street]]. It is famous for its [[musical clock]], which plays the ''[[Hey Diddle Diddle]]'' nursery rhyme hourly<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mather |first1=Anne |title=Cat and Fiddle Arcade time in his hands with reset for daylight saving |url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/cat-and-fiddle-arcade-time-in-his-hands-with-reset-for-daylight-saving/news-story/79362a1e21d8c7532cede78d670b85e0 |access-date=2 July 2024 |agency=The Advertiser |date=5 October 2013 |archive-date=2 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240702023827/https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/cat-and-fiddle-arcade-time-in-his-hands-with-reset-for-daylight-saving/news-story/79362a1e21d8c7532cede78d670b85e0 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rico |first1=Charley |title=What's your first memory of Hobart? We asked, you answered |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-08/hobart-memories-shared-by-abc-readers/10856222 |access-date=1 July 2024 |agency=ABC News |date=8 March 2019}}</ref> with [[glockenspiel]] and [[vibraphone]],{{Better source needed|date=July 2024}} and is a local tourist attraction.<ref>{{cite web |title=THE OFFICIAL SIGHTSEEING GUIDE TO HOBART |url=https://reddecker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Red-Decker-The-Official-Signhtseeing-Guide-to-Hobart-2024.pdf |website=Red Decker |quote=Don’t miss the clock tower at the Cat & Fiddle Arcade, where a playful cow figurine jumps over the moon every hour on the hour. |access-date=2 July 2024 |archive-date=14 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314002909/https://reddecker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Red-Decker-The-Official-Signhtseeing-Guide-to-Hobart-2024.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Cat and Fiddle Square (the location of a food court, and formerly a fountain) also holds other music events and occasionally art installations.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Silva |first1=Paul |title=Expand/Contract: A Case Study (2009) |url=https://acuads.com.au/conference/article/expandcontract-a-case-study/ |website=The Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools |publisher=UTAS |access-date=2 July 2024}}</ref> Along with at least 70 specialty stores, the mall is Hobart's major clothing and fashion retail centre containing a [[Myer]] and [[Target Australia|Target]] which each cover two levels, as well as an [[H&M]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Store Directory |url=https://www.catandfiddlearcade.com/store-directory |website=Cat and Fiddle Arcade |access-date=1 July 2024 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701020812/https://www.catandfiddlearcade.com/store-directory |url-status=live }}</ref>
It is accessible via the [[Icon Complex]] on [[Liverpool Street, Hobart|Liverpool Street]] and Murray Street, and the [[Elizabeth Street Mall]] (close to the [[Hobart Bus Mall]]), and bounded by [[Collins Street, Hobart|Collins Street]] where there is a skybridge to [[Trafalgar Building, Hobart|Trafalgar Place]]. It is also located directly between other malls in the shopping precinct, including the Wellington Centre (via Wellington Court or the Bank Arcade, anchored by a [[Woolworths (Australia)|Woolworths]]) and Centrepoint Shopping Centre.
==History== 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 (The Cat and Fiddle) was situated until the 1830s (between Charles Davis' ironmongery and [[John Watt Beattie]]'s photography studio).<ref>{{cite news |title=OUR HOBART LETTER |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article151820601 |access-date=2 July 2024 |agency=Daily Telegraph (Launceston) |publisher=Trove |date=21 April 1906}}</ref> Into the 1860s the Cat and Fiddle Alley retained a notoriety as a characterfully rough and unsanitary, but central locale.<ref>{{cite news |title="CAT AND FIDDLE ALLEY" |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232858101 |access-date=2 July 2024 |agency=The Tasmanian Times (Hobart Town) |publisher=Trove |date=13 February 1868 |archive-date=2 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240902052909/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/232858101 |url-status=live }}</ref> The arrangement of the arcade still follows the path of the underground Rivulet.
The 1962 opening was attended by Alderman Basil Osborne and the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation#Orchestras|ABC]] Orchestra.<ref name="TAHO"/> The hardware department store [[Charles Davis (department store)|Charles Davis]] operated from 1847 to 1984 (and later acquired nearby [[FitzGerald's]] in 1981, both now [[Harris Scarfe]]) at the site, and the business pursued its redevelopment inspired by other modern malls such as [[Chadstone Shopping Centre]] in Melbourne which opened two years prior.{{Better source needed|date=July 2024}} After 1973 the name is used by Cat & Fiddle Press,<ref>{{cite web |title=Publishing |url=https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Publishing.htm |website=Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies |publisher=UTAS |access-date=2 July 2024 |archive-date=2 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240702073750/https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Publishing.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> a reference to WE Fuller's Bookshop and J Walch & Sons which had at various times been based nearby.
Major floods have affected the mall, including in [[1929 Tasmanian floods|1929]], [[June 1947 Tasmanian floods|1947]] and most recently in [[2018 Hobart floods|2018]].{{cn|date=July 2024}} It received upgrades during 2010 to 2015,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Heyward |first1=Philip |title=Old memories linger in new-look, upmarket Cat and Fiddle Arcade |url=https://www.themercury.com.au/realestate/old-memories-linger-in-new-look-upmarket-cat-and-fiddle-arcade/news-story/259fbcaf963cc01d14f119e18d07015f |access-date=1 July 2024 |agency=The Mercury |date=1 November 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Cat and Fiddle Digiglass |url=https://bya-architects.com.au/architecture/catandfiddle-digiglass/?target=architecture&item=catandfiddle-digiglass |website=BYA Architects |access-date=2 July 2024 |archive-date=2 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240702011419/https://bya-architects.com.au/architecture/catandfiddle-digiglass/?target=architecture&item=catandfiddle-digiglass |url-status=live }}</ref> but during reconstruction works for the ICON Centre in 2016 (following the 2007 Myer fire), part of the Rivulet retaining wall collapsed beneath some arcade tenancies.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hobart Rivulet/Cat and Fiddle Arcade collapse 27 July 2016 |url=https://www.cbos.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/408275/FINAL_Myer_Protection_Work_Audit_Compliance_and_Dispute_Resolution.PDF |website=Consumer, Building and Occupational Services (CBOS) |publisher=Tasmanian Government |access-date=2 July 2024 |archive-date=2 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240902052908/https://www.cbos.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/408275/FINAL_Myer_Protection_Work_Audit_Compliance_and_Dispute_Resolution.PDF |url-status=live }}</ref>
==See also== {{Commons category|Cat and Fiddle Arcade}} *[[List of shopping centres in Australia]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|https://www.catandfiddlearcade.com|The Cat and Fiddle Arcade}} {{Hobart landmarks}} {{Shopping centres in Tasmania}}
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