Painting by

Tom Curr

used as the basis for tiles in shops belonging to

Buttercup Dairy Co

Buttercup Dairy Company

The two pictures above are both of a brown cow and girl.

-  The first is a painting by the Edinburgh artist, Tom Curr.  This painting may have hung in the Head Office in Leith of the Buttercup Dairy Co.

-  The second is a view of the tiles in Craiglea Clocks, a shop in Comiston Road Edinburgh that was formerly one of the Buttercup Dairy shops in Edinburgh.

Recollections

1.

GM Rigg

Edinburgh

Thank you to GM Rigg who wrote:

Drambuie Bond

"I spent about 5 years working at the old Drambuie bond at the foot of Easter Road.  It's gone now but it was located just a little bit up hill from the Persevere Pub on the same side of the road."

Buttercup Dairy

"The manager (Mr Mees) had his office in the old building that at the front of the bond that had been the office for the Buttercup Dairy Company.  The company name was carved over the teller's barred cubical.

and should have been preserved. Some of the older people who worked at the bond and had lived in the area all their lives told me that when they were kids, the school grounds all the way from the bond up to Hawkhill were where the dairy cattle were grazed.

I don't know whether they were pulling my leg about the fields or not."

GM Rigg, Edinburgh:  Message posted in EdinPhoto guest book:  September 11, 2009

Corstorphine Recollections (including Buttercup Dairy)

Tom Curr  -  Artist