View from south east of British Home Stores, also showing Nos 61 - 62, 63 and 70 - 71.

Description View from south east of British Home Stores, also showing Nos 61 - 62, 63 and 70 - 71.

Catalogue Number SC 466161

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 42984

Scope and Content British Home Stores, No 64-69 Princes Street, Edinburgh In 1954 the Princes Street Panel was set up to regulate the redevelopment of Princes Street, whose north side was expected to be rebuilt from end to end. The building of British Home Stores in 1965 was the first to follow the Panel 's guidelines. British Home Stores replaced the North British Mercantile Insurance Company building of 1855-7. The first floor is glazed above the unused walkway, and the projecting upper floors, clad in vertical strips of pale granite, are for storage. The Princes Street Panel proposed the total rebuilding of Princes Street in 1930s-style Neo-Classical blocks, each unit having a first-floor walkway linking it to its neighbours. A few isolated examples were built before the plan was abandoned in 1979. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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