Dundee’s Art Deco Heritage 2. Murraygate (I)
Posted in Art Deco, Dundee, Scotland, Woolworths at 17:26 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
25 August 2009 at 19:19
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
Sean
31 August 2016 at 16:29
Ahhhh memories of Woolies Murraygate, was not even at school but I recall being in Woolies M/Gate Dundee and John Menzies Murraygate on the corner of Commercial St, then later when John Menzies moved to Woolies site.
Another ironicness is that when Tesco closed the Wellgate that old Tesco Wellgate became the cut down sized 1993 site for Woolworths (now Home Bargains, Wellgate has half that site) and Tesco bought the original Woolies site from John Menzies and planted Tesco Metro.
I remember it all and I’m not even 40 yet lol.
jackdeighton
31 August 2016 at 22:14
Sean,
Thanks for your memories.
Something similar happened to the Woolies building in Kirkcaldy where they also reopened elsewhere in the town.
Sad that all are gone now.