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Harriet Richardson Blakeman
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Architectural historian, formerly at the Survey of London, long standing interest in hospital buildings. University of Edinburgh PhD ‘Medicine and Modernity’. Living in Scotland. Website: historic-hospitals.com/
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For #bookshopday I give you a former bookshop in St Andrews. J & G Innes's closed down in the last year, and was much loved as book shop, newsagent and stationers. A lovely building too.

J & G Innes Ltd shop in St Andrews, Fife, on the corner of Church Street and South Street. Three-storey and attic corner building, in stone with dark brown old-fashioned shopfront. A niche at first floor level has a statue in it, the corner has a timber oriel window. All very oldee-worldee
J & G Innes shop expanded into the next-door single-storey building: the Christian Institute inscribed on the frieze. The three-bay building has a balustrade with a central gable treated as a broken pediment with an oculus and carved scroll decoration, the shopfront has leaded clerestorey lighting, iron columns, recessed doorway.
detail of shopfront of J & G Innes' on South Street. It was late November 2022 when I took the photo and there is a display of Christmas crackers in the right-hand window.
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According to the Pevsner guide, the Christian Institute was built as a post office, James Gillespie & Scott, 1891-2. The corner building ‘a late Georgian tenement dressed up in the 1920s with Tudor detail à la Libertys’.

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Harriet Richardson Blakeman
@harrietrichardsonb.bsky.social
Architectural historian, formerly at the Survey of London, long standing interest in hospital buildings. University of Edinburgh PhD ‘Medicine and Modernity’. Living in Scotland. Website: historic-hospitals.com/
172 followers137 following107 posts
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