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Murray Place, STIRLING, FK8 2BX

More or less the centre of Stirling's shopping area. Like most places there are a few vacant properties

Many of the "First" buses that serve routes passing through the University campus in Stirling are branded "Unilink" and offer discount fares to students. Seen here on Station Road Image

The Category B listed http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB41106 former Stirling Head Post Office dates from 1894. It has now become a pub called the Cold Beer Company http://www.coldbeercompany-stirling.co.uk/

FK8 1111 and FK8 1112 outside the former Stirling Head Post Office Image

The A9 running through Stirling, and under the carpark and entrance to the railway station.

Looking from the Forthside Bridge across the Inner Relief Road towards the centre of Stirling.

Near the railway station.

A Category B Listed building http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB41204 with an interesting history, described by Historic Scotland as follows... "This shopping arcade, now known as the Stirling Arcade, is a fine example located between Stirling's principal shopping streets and the Castle. It is one of just five remaining in Scotland. Built for William Crawford, local councillor and china merchant, at a cost of about £30,000, it was also home to the Arcade Theatre. Crawford's Arcade, as it was known, links King Street and Murray Place. Narrow street facades at each end lead into the ramped shopping arcade. Entering at King Street on higher ground to the SW, the arcade runs down to the NE, it dog-legs to the left into a lofty rectangular-plan level centre court and back again to the right to slope down to Murray Place. The Arcade, together with the Alhambra Theatre and Douglas Hotel were sold by auction in 1920 after the death of William Crawford. The Arcade Theatre was situated within the arcade above the shops. Access was by the extant elegant cantilevered dog-leg staircase with decorative cast iron balusters and serpentine curved top landing on thin cast iron columns, with some fine decorative plasterwork. In 1964 the space was converted to a furniture showroom for Thomas Menzies Limited. The fine interior detail was removed owing to its poor condition but managing director, Mr Stirling Farquhar, had a pictorial record made. The auditorium 'had two U-shaped balconies, supported on iron columns, with a vaulted ceiling of painted panels. It seated 1,200 and had a chequered start with various short leases' (Peter). It was sold to William Crawford in 1912 and renamed the Alhambra Music Hall. It was then used for cine-variety and became a full-time cinema in 1930. The cinema closed in 1939 due to perceived fire risk owing to limited access. Scotland's other shopping arcades are at: Central Arcade, Ayr (1880), North Bridge Arcade, Edinburgh (1900), Argyle Arcade, Glasgow (1827), and Market Arcade, Inverness (1860)".

Formerly Dempsey's.