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The
site at the corner of Princes Street and Hope Street at the West End
of Princes Street was:
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Osborne Hotel until
damaged by fire in 1879.
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1879: Scottish Liberal Club
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1904: Robert Maule & Co, Department Store, boasting
one of the first tea rooms and electric lifts in Edinburgh. The
store was expanded to include 145 +145A Princes Street in 1928.
The
store's advertising slogan was: "Meet me at Maules".
This corner of Edinburgh became a popular meeting place, though
the clock under which people meet was not added until 1960., then
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1931: Binns & Sons, the
result of an acquisition following the death of Robert Maull
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1976: Frasers, though Binns had,
in fact, been owned by House of Fraser since 1953. |