33 Albany Street
A mix of offices and flats. these are only some of the varied tenants.
1896 – 1927 Edinburgh office of Samuel Hanson & Son Samuel Hanson & Son was a wholesale grocery business established at Eastcheap in London. The company had a large canning factory in Toddington, Gloucestershire. (company advert) The Edinburgh office was run by John Lloyd who died in 1917
1902 - 1910ish D W Martin
Office of D W Martin, tea merchant.
1902 – 1909 Peter Miller
Peter Miller was a Tea Agent and probably worked for D. W. Martin.
1911 – 1947 Miss Sarah Davie
Sarah Davie was a dressmaker and shirt maker.
1924 – 1940 Lilian Snow
Lilian Snow was the youngest daughter of William Snow. She was unmarried and in 1924 applied for a pension of £20 a year from Trinity Hospital. Out of six hundred applicants, only thirty three were successful; Lilian being one. She died in 1940.
1925? - 1935? William Shepherd
Bookbinder.
1933 – 1938 Office of Alexander Morgan
Alexander Morgan was a Tea and Coffee Merchant. When he moved out his office fittings and furnishing auctioned. (advert) and the first floor office was advertised to let.
1939 – 1949 Office of Central Paper warehouse
Previously in Clyde Street, this was the office of John Hogg Marshall, a paper merchant. The business moved here from Clyde Street and moved on to Number 8.
1939 – 1945 Office Edinburgh Showcard & Poster Service
This company moved here from Number 11. Run by Allan Gillespie, a ‘ticket writer’, the company produced bill posters and illustrated showcards to advertise goods and services which were mounted in restaurants, shops and hotels.
1950s - 1970s Edinburgh Council Education Service
No information found on what these were used for.
1949 – (around) 1960 Miss Elizabeth White
Nothing traced.
1944 – (around) 1960 Miss Mary Macpherson
Nothing traced.