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This photograph is of the ‘supermarket that never was’. It was built on the site of the former St Andrews Parish Church and various other former co-operative properties in 1988 near where the bus station now is, but never opened its doors for business. It was taken over by the Co-operative Retail Services who decided that the building didn’t meet their standards. All of the shops in the Randolph Street complex closed two years later.
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So much wasted time, money and resources…….bit like the Hyundai plant!
Allowing it to be built only for it to be pulled down so the current bus station could be built . If the co-op didn’t want it could have been offered to another retailer instead of letting it rot . A gross waste of time and effort from the builders if the end product was never used and as for the council planning department everybody has their opinions about that crowd . They’re like a cross between headless chickens and the keystone cops who couldn’t plan a piss-up in a brewery .
I’m sure that was Chapel Street the lane on the right was where the old coop butchery factory was.
Stuff the shop , what a cracking picture of an Opel ascona and possibly a Chrysler polara?
Colleen Reid what does this remind you of?
Randolph St was all co-op buildings. More commonly known as the “store” My mother Jennie Stewart worked in the restaurant for many years.
George Duncan I had a job guarding this building, “Phoenix security” employed me, i resigned after a couple of shifts.
This was sheer incompetence. A large amount of money was spent on this. It never opened and was demolished. the Co-op went into decline and you will not find them in the middle of the Town now.
Sabrina Swan
is the car on the right a datson or a nisan which wereonein the same but the datson was the first name they were given ???
That’s my 1978 Opel Ascona with the go-faster rally spotlights! JLS 465S. Used to park there all the time as it was free! I’m standing talking to my mates.