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this is on kilmarnock road , shawlands, . it is very faded but you can just make out ...A COCHRANE ...tea merchant .

Branches of Cochrane's and Curley's were all over Glasgow but lost out to supermarkets and there was not yet a sandwich market to move into.

mr moto wrote:this is on kilmarnock road , shawlands, . it is very faded but you can just make out ...A COCHRANE ...tea merchant .

A picture of the same shop in its heyday has been commented on here before:

http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualm ... =2&t=4&x=1

are the mitchell OK with hotlinking? it would be nice to see them both at the same time. ah well, just open another browser window

Rucola wrote:

mr moto wrote:this is on kilmarnock road , shawlands, . it is very faded but you can just make out ...A COCHRANE ...tea merchant .

A picture of the same shop in its heyday has been commented on here before:

Thats an interesting photo as it would make a good past present because they look like the recent one was taken in almost the same position.

If you look at the close mouth it looks like they've still got the original tiles on the wall and the road if you lookwhere the tar is wearing away it looks like that could be where the tram lines were.

Jim

130 Berkeley Street

I searched, honest.

and in context



Argyle Street opposite the Ben Nevis.

Currently visible halfway along Sauchiehall St - any crossword solvers amongst us with a good idea as to what it originally said?

gap74 wrote:Currently visible halfway along Sauchiehall St - any crossword solvers amongst us with a good idea as to what it originally said?

it could read The Anus and the Carpenter
or I think is more The Walrus and Carpenter

I have a vague memory of seeing this shop open - one of those craft-y gift-y places?

Josef wrote:I have a vague memory of seeing this shop open - one of those craft-y gift-y places?

yeah the very same

I wonder if 'Hawdit' & 'Dawdit' are still working?

Was The *nus and the *rse Center not an up-market toy shop?

Sold wooden toys , hoops , puppets and that toxic waste in a toothpaste tube that was used to blow blue or red poisonous bubbles?

Oh, I have many fond memories of The Walrus and the Carpenter - my Aunt used to take me in to pick a toy every so often. On one occasion I came out with the poisonous red bubbles in a tube!!! Apart from that rubbish, it was like a wonderland to me with toys that no other shop had. Happy days...

Vinegar Tom wrote:Was The *nus and the *rse Center not an up-market toy shop?

Sold wooden toys , hoops , puppets and that toxic waste in a toothpaste tube that was used to blow blue or red poisonous bubbles?

Yes, you're right. I'm afraid I count wooden-toy shops in the 'craft-y gift-y ' category. There's still a couple of them around though, one in King Street or thereabouts, the other just off Byres Road.

WeegieBurd wrote: On one occasion I came out with the poisonous red bubbles in a tube!!!

With a wee straw that you used to blow into to inflate the plasticy bubbles you made?
I remember my uncle had this years ago. Wonder if you can still get them.