As we're at that time of the year when everyone seems to be stocking up for the festive season and booking slots for Christmas food shopping deliveries, this old advert caught my eye. Nisbet's licensed grocer in Upper Largo marketed itself as the place to go all year round "from Christmas to Christmas". The advert emphasises the wines and spirits and the fact that the business is an "agent for W & A Gilbey & Company" which was the retail wine and spirits company run by Walter and Albert Gilbey based in London. Small grocers that were appointed 'Gilbey agents' were not allowed to sell the wines or spirits of any other firrm. Best known for their gin, Gilbey's also owned Scottish whisky-producing distilleries. A long-standing grocery business, the shop was sold in 1922 after the death of George Simpson Nisbet in the January of that year at the age of 58.
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susan napier
1/8/2014 08:45:47 am
I remember in the early 1950s, before the Crolls took over, that the shops on the corner of Hillhead and Emsdorf Streets were run by the Turbaynes (sp?). One as a grocery and the other next door as a sweet shop, run by their sister, Jean, Miss Turbayne to everyone. She was popular with the children, not least because, if you sang her a song she would reward you with a sweetie! At Christmas she decorated her shop window, and every year in the middle of the display was Santa and his sleigh. Victorian I imagine, as it looked old then, and all the reindeer had weighted, nodding heads, so it seemed like magic to our young eyes. The sleigh was full of sweets and I think it might have been illuminated with fairy lights as it always looked its best after dark. It was an established and welcome part of the Christmas scene at that end of Lundin Links.
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