Much as I love any image of 'Old Lundin Links', I particularly enjoy photographs featuring old shops, which generally tend to seem far more interesting than our modern day equivalents. There are blurry glimpses of products lost in the mists of time, neat well-looked after shop frontages and the promise of quality products dispensed by friendly, knowledgeable shopkeepers. In the image above we see (from left to right) the Post Office and General Merchant Store, the National Bank of Scotland, Borthwick the butcher, Somerville grocer, the British Linen Bank, Gulland's Draper and Outfitter, Gulland's Tearoom and the Commercial Bank (on the corner with the boy standing outside it). A previous post shows the same range of shops, looking from the other end.
Fast forward to the present day, and while we now have no banks, no clothing outlet and no one selling blocks of butter that they have personally weighed, shaped with paddles and wrapped in grease-proof paper, we are fortunate to have a good range of businesses, including a coffee shop, a butcher/baker, a hairdresser and Post Office facility. The relatively new 'Penny and Black' shop, with its Post Office counter and range of cards and gifts, is beautifully presented and in-keeping with the late Victorian building. I'm sure original Lundin Links Post Mistress, Margaret Bremner, would have approved!
Fast forward to the present day, and while we now have no banks, no clothing outlet and no one selling blocks of butter that they have personally weighed, shaped with paddles and wrapped in grease-proof paper, we are fortunate to have a good range of businesses, including a coffee shop, a butcher/baker, a hairdresser and Post Office facility. The relatively new 'Penny and Black' shop, with its Post Office counter and range of cards and gifts, is beautifully presented and in-keeping with the late Victorian building. I'm sure original Lundin Links Post Mistress, Margaret Bremner, would have approved!
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