View from south of 147 - 135 Princes Street.
SC 466167
Description View from south of 147 - 135 Princes Street.
Catalogue Number SC 466167
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 9901
Scope and Content Binns department store at the west end of Princes Street, Edinburgh, viewed from Lothian Road 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. This huge building, which dominates the corner of Princes Street and Charlotte Street, was designed in 1935 by John Ross McKay. It replaced an earlier Victorian store belonging to Robert Maule, and the corner site was formerly known as 'Maule's Corner'. Several well-known 20th-century Princes Street department stores, such as R W Forsyth's and Binns, have now been taken over by large chain-store groups. The only independent survivor is Jenners, Scotland's most profitable retail business on a single site. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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