Dundee just feels a wee bit less special & magic. Truly gutted to hear that the unique gem that is J.A. Braithwaite on Castle Street: tea and coffee merchants are to close. They opened in 1868, roasted all their beans & were purveyors of wonderful tea & coffee at decent prices.
A Glasgow icon is getting a new chapter. 🏛️✨
Planning permission has been granted to turn the former Watt Brothers building on Sauchiehall Street into a new 100-room hotel, in a £23m “heritage-led” redevelopment by Sandy and James Easdale.
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Huge loss of such a magnificent building in the city centre.
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Part of the Union Street facade has collapsed into the street.
📷 Glasgow by drone
Ground floor is red painted Bar and Restaurant on Crispin Street. At the top of the second floor on the brick wall are the remains of a painted sign saying Nut Importers & Roasters.
An old green painted shop front saying Verde & Company Ltd, fruit importers.
A couple of old shop fronts in the Brick Lane Spitalfields area of #London from @slowwaysuk.bsky.social route Bethnal Green to Liverpool Street Station.
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Hurrah for modern businesses adopting old fascias!
Last time I was in #Stamford this gorgeous glazed terracotta wine & spirit merchant's shop (a branch of a Peterborough firm) was still covered by modern pub signage. Created in 1907.
Calls grow to save Harold Gosney sculptures as Grimsby Car Park demolition begins
As demolition work begins on a 1960s car park in Grimsby, renewed calls are being made to preserve the public artwork embedded in the structure. The Abbey Walk car park is being knocked down after North East…
Marking 10 years of buildingourpast.com - 100 posts focusing on historic shops and retail history.
Today's offering: Saxone shoe shops. buildingourpast.com?p=11352&prev...
'Scotland's spending watchdog has told Historic Environment Scotland (HES) it must address "unacceptable weaknesses" in its governance in a strongly critical report.'
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The founder of the What Every Woman Wants department store has died aged 87.
Vera Weisfeld launched the women's fashion chain with her husband, Gerald, in Glasgow in 1971 before expanding across the UK.
📷 Newsquest
This shop frontage in Belmont, near Harrow needs a local listing. It's a precious example of 1930s style.
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Bedford take note!
A few alterations, but recognisable!
Bet not many of these #Cambridge students realised that Gardenia's shopfront was installed for Lennards (shoe shop) by Pollards in the late 1920s. A tad altered, but recognisable - hope it isn't now swept away!
Bit of Peckham Rye art deco. Former Holdron’s department store. Now a tremendous shop in its own right
What do we do with our former department stores? Well, Age Concern Southend has one answer that seems to be working. Heard some lovely stories tonight of the impact The Haven has had (4000 visitors a month!) & the wider benefit it's had on the high street. Inspirational stuff. @archhfund.org.uk
A black and white photograph of the Electricity offices for East Ham Borough
This week we are exploring the Electricity Showroom, which appeared in the nation's high streets in the 30s, often in an art deco or modernist finish and looking to sell new fangled electrical and gas appliances. Read more in Power to the People www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/power-t...
Dealbh-camara às an adhar de dh'Ospadal tùsail an Ràthaig Mhòir ann an Inbhir Nis. Cha robh anns an ospadal thùsail ach grunnan uàrdan air aon làr agus chaidh a' chiad euslainteach a thoirt a-steach air 5 An t-Sultain 1941
[neach-fiosrachaidh: Nurses League of Inverness Hospitals]
The C & A store at the corner of Sauchiehall and Cambridge Streets is brand new in this 1929 photograph. Designed by North, Robin & Wilsdon, and built in 1928, the successor firm of North Partners did the design work for the 1950s alterations.
📷 Glasgow City Archives
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158-160 Argyle St, at Mitchell Lane, photographed in 1926. The fashion retailer Burton had been established in London in 1903, and by the time this was taken, had around 400 stores across the UK. Today you'd find slot machines rather than shirts at this location.
📷 City Archives
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New post this morning 27/8.
Review of @kathrynmorrison.bsky.social brilliant book Chain Stores in the Golden Age of the British High Street.
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Former Debenhams/Bon Marché store, Gloucester: the early 1960s part of the building very like the Festival Hall's original 1951 elevations, especially the small windows to the left which echo those which originally illuminated the RFH's side fire escape stairs.
Have you seen this @kathrynmorrison.bsky.social ?
Some #UrbanPrehistory for chain stores - The Lost Stones of ASDA…
