Monthly Archives: February 2011

Very many thanks to those who provided information about Buchanan’s in Edinburgh.  Stuart Munro of Marchmont Hardware remembers Buchanan’s as being owned latterly by Gray’s of Edinburgh and Into Ironmongers passed on Stuart’s contact details to the person who made the query so he could find out more.   And thanks to Roger Kelly in Penicuik who sent the following:

‘Thomas J Buchanan’s drysaltery was at 44 Clerk Street (corner of Rankeillor Street) in the middle years of last century. It was gone by 1954.  J.S. Buchanan & Co (General Merchants and Mill Furnishers) were further out at 26 Newington Road, just north of the end of Newington Place beside the (then) Clydesdale Bank. ‘

Roger also sent the weblink with fascinating documentation about Penicuik Cooperative Association.