At the end of the 19th century this shop was a newsagency and stationery store. Over the years it evolved into a grocery shop which was run by a variety of proprietors. The first to be recorded was Annie Brown (née Nicholls) c.1900; then in the early 1920s the Bonthorn family (Walter and Katie Bonthorn); then John and Ruby Sandow, who bought and renovated it in the late 1920s. By the 1980s, it had become a milk bar and green grocery run by the Jennings family, who were descendants of the Sandows.
Gary Jennings was the proprietor when it closed in 2003.
In more recent years it became a café and shop selling giftware, hardware supplies and a variety of locally made products. It is now a private residence.
The block of land between Traquair House and this old shop was the site of Daniel McMillan’s boot maker’s shop in about 1900. The last residents to live there were Ellen McMillan (née Brown), widow of Daniel, and her daughter, Annie Moody (or Moodie).
