Four North East stores to go in first wave of HMV closures
As you may well have seen last week, four North East locations are among the 66 loss-making HMV stores that will close within the next couple...
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Newcastle’s extended Primark takes shape
Whatever you might think about the rise of the fashion retailer Primark, there’s no disputing that it’s one of the big retail success stories right...
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Princes Street’s lost Woolworths flagship
Earlier on I wrote about Edinburgh’s first Woolworths – in Leith – which opened in January 1925, but it was over a year later before...
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New book examines the architectural history of Scotland’s shops
One of the nice things about running my own architecture subject gateway, Sapling.info, is that I get the opportunity to read about plenty of interesting buildings and places. Earlier...
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