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Jenners (Jenners Department Store) in Edinburgh, started in 1838 and has been at the same corner every since, though the building shown here opened in 1895 after a fire destroyed the previous buildings. The company’s early goal was to make elegance available in Edinburgh and it did that so well that it became known as “The Harrod’s of the North” -- from my short visit, it seems to still have that objective (despite having been sold to a franchise a number of years ago). There’s a characteristic of the architecture that’s particularly interesting, but I’ll hold that till the later picture of it.
Sources:
www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/scottish-fact-of-the-day-jenne...
(Part of a documentation of 2018 exploration/reflection on Brexit and populist movements in Europe, keyword Europe2018)
Tiled entrance to Jenners Department Store, Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. Jenners Department Store, now known simply as Jenners, is a department store was founded in 1838, and was the oldest independent department store in Scotland until its acquisition by House of Fraser in 2005.
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 such as electric lighting and hydraulic lifts.
Known as the "Harrods of the North", it has held a Royal Warrant since 1911, and was visited by Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of its 150th anniversary in 1988.
In 2004 it changed its vision statement from its goal to "be the most exciting department store outside of London" to "Confidently Independent". The store made national news in 2007 when it publicised that it would stop selling pate de foie gras, following a boycott by the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton.