View of 10 - 20 Princes Street, Edinburgh from south east showing F.W. Woolworth & Co Ltd on the site of the Crown Hotel, and The Palace Cinema (since demolished).
SC 466080
Description View of 10 - 20 Princes Street, Edinburgh from south east showing F.W. Woolworth & Co Ltd on the site of the Crown Hotel, and The Palace Cinema (since demolished).
Date 1900 to 1930
Collection Collection of photographs by George Chrystal and Francis Maxwell Chrystal, photographers, Edinburgh,
Catalogue Number SC 466080
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 7428
Scope and Content Woolworth's, Princes Street, Edinburgh 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. F W Woolworth's store was built on this corner site, formerly occupied by the Crown Hotel, in 1925. It was probably designed by Woolworth's own architect, W Priddle, and extended to the west in 1956. Woolworth's occupied the site of two notable houses: the first house to be built in Princes Street in 1769 for John Neale, a silk mercer; and the office and shop of Archibald Constable, publisher of Sir Walter Scott. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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