Inside Jenner's - a famous department store in Edinburgh known as the 'Harrods of the North'. According to Wikipedia:
"Jenners has maintained its position on Edinburgh's Princes Street since 1838 when it was founded by Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington and known as "Kennington & Jenner". The store was run for many years by the Douglas-Miller family, who were descendants of James Kennedy, who took charge of Jenners in 1881.
The original buildings that formed the department store were destroyed by fire in 1892, and in 1893 the Scottish architect William Hamilton Beattie was appointed to design the new store which subsequently opened in 1895. This new building is designated as a category A listed building, and it is noted by the statutory listing that, at Charles Jenner's insistence, the building's caryatids were intended 'to show symbolically that women are the support of the house'. The new store included many technical innovations included electric lighting and hydraulic lifts."
How very interesting! And also very like Libertys,too.I wonder if the Beattie in question is related to the Midlands Beattie, of department store fame?
@weekendhacker@moominmomma@rich18786 Thanks - I'm not usually a fan of department stores, but I did like the atrium and the light coming in from the ceiling windows. Didn't buy anything, though!
May 7th, 2011
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@pennymilner oooh, you never know!! lol