Dundee’s Art Deco Heritage 2. Murraygate (I)
Posted in Art Deco, Dundee, Scotland, Woolworths at 5:26 pm on 9 July 2009
As promised, more pictures of my stroll round Dundee.
The top floors of this building are now filled by a JJB Sports and the ground floor has a Tesco Metro.
From the styling it looks to me as if it originally was a Woolworths but I’ve not sufficient knowledge of Dundee to be sure of that. I couldn’t get far enough back across the street to frame the whole building.
There are some nice flourishes around the windows.
There are four identical embellishments on the roof edge. Some of them are sprouting plants.
The building next to this (housing an Evans) has a clocktower that is obviously Deco influenced but must be much more recent.
There is another Murraygate view here of this possible Dundee Woolworths.
Tags: Art Deco, Dundee, Scotland, Woolworths
STEVE
August 25, 2009 at 7:19 pm
The Tesco building was indeed a Woolworths until it closed in 1982, leaving Dundee city centre with no Woolworths until they reopened in the Wellgate centre in 1993. After that the building was a large branch of John Menzies, before that closed too, in early 1996. Later that year the building reopened as JJB SPORTS/TESCO METRO