The doll's hospital was on the corner of Grange Road and the Haymarket. If you look at bottom of Bert's first map, it was No 44 Grange Road. I think it also sold newspapers, books and magazines. Marriott's was next door.
There was indeed a tobacconist in Argyle Street next to the George and Dragon. There was also an even bigger one on the corner of Grange Road, directly across from the George and Dragon. Both were still in business in the early 1970s.
They used to sell such exotic smokes as Sobranie Black Russian cigarettes (mentioned in one of the James Bond books) and Passing Clouds cigarettes, which were oval in profile. This was exciting stuff when most of us could only afford No 6 tipped!
There may well have been a tobacconist by Marion St, a road the size of Argyle St would have had a few I would think,
Indeed there was - certainly still there until recently at no. 72A Argyle Street - the wedge-shaped buildling with the railway cutting to its left as you look from Argyle Street
There was also an even bigger one on the corner of Grange Road, directly across from the George and Dragon. Both were still in business in the early 1970s.
They used to sell such exotic smokes as Sobranie Black Russian cigarettes (mentioned in one of the James Bond books) and Passing Clouds cigarettes, which were oval in profile. This was exciting stuff when most of us could only afford No 6 tipped!
I remember that one; also Passing Clouds (WD & HO Wills) and Sobranie, who also made Imperial Russian, which had a cardboard holder attached as long as the actual cigarette.
Do you recall where it was located? Thanks, Erainn
