The Rockingham Arms

Metro Central Heights is the former headquarters of the Department of Health and Social Security. Purpose-built in the early 1960s, it covers the site of the long-standing Rockingham Arms.

From the later 19th century, this site was occupied by the Tarns Department Store, and the Isaac Waltons Store after that. The emporium was destroyed during 'The Blitz', in the 1940s, like the long-standing Rockingham Arms pub, on the corner of what is now Metro Central Heights.