Thank you to Alan
Jackson, owner of an antique shop at 67 Causewayside, for allowing
me to reproduce this old photograph of a nearby shop - at 57
Causewayside.
I have not been able
to date this photograph very precisely.
I've checked old
editions of the Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory and found
that Alex Meikle's Grocer & Spirit Merchant shop arrived at 57
Causewayside some time between 1885 and 1890 and it remained there
until the 1930s.
Prices
Bob Henderson,
Burdiehouse, Edinburgh, added:
"I'd just like to remark how expensive
tea was compared with 'Extremely Old Scotch' and 'Fine Rum from
Jamaica'. "
Bob Henderson, Burdiehouse, Edinburgh:
October 3, 2009