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Edinburgh, 33-38 Princes Street. General view of South elevation C & A in course of restoration/rebuilding, also showing part of 30-32, 39-41 and part of 42-44 Princes Street.
A 7708 CN
Description Edinburgh, 33-38 Princes Street. General view of South elevation C & A in course of restoration/rebuilding, also showing part of 30-32, 39-41 and part of 42-44 Princes Street.
Date 3/1985
Catalogue Number A 7708 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 466069
Scope and Content C & A department store, No 36-42 Princes Street, Edinburgh, in the course of alteration Princes Street was originally the south-facing terrace of James Craig's New Town. From the 1830s, reconstruction continued to transform the street into Edinburgh's principal thoroughfare of hotels, department stores, shops, offices and clubs. The C & A store was designed by North & Partners in 1956 as part of a scheme to redevelop the whole north side of the street. Its two recessed balconies acknowledge the view over Princes Street Gardens to the south. The building was refronted in 1985. In 1949 the Abercrombie Plan proposed the total rebuilding of Princes Street in 1930s Neo-Classical blocks, a plan taken up by the 1954 Princes Street Panel which was set up to regulate the redevelopment. The plan was finally abandoned in 1979. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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