Royal visit decorations, Commercial Street, High Street, Dundee - Ref: WC1663
View of building from Murraygate at what would now be outside The Body Shop.
View of Wm. Menzies Drapery Shop (used to be Arnotts) and Anderson's Dundee Drug Store next door. Also in the picture is J. J. Miles & Co. Clothing Shop. Small groups of people standing around, one with a small boy around about 3 years.
Contract for Street decorations and public buildings awarded to City of London Fireworks & Public Decorations Co - local agent Thomas Justice & Sons. will cost under less than the budget of £1000.00. Firework display on the Magdalen Green in the evening
Alexander Wilson who took this photograph, was a supervisor in a Dundee jute mill for over 20 years. He bequeathed much of his collection and £50, to cover the costs involved, to the Free Library Committee of Dundee in 1923.