Go to Edinburgh to try to find something, and come home without! Try Scott Brothers and there most likely you will find what you were looking for!The shop has passed its centennial birthday and is still popular in the 21st century. An effort to modernise and make it "self service" has been made, but the old feel of the place is still there: you deal with the staff over the counter, and what is great is that the shop front has probably stayed the same for years, and in the back shop the floor is still cobbled. I suspect it would have been a stall for animals, a stable most likely.
Along with boxes and baskets, airers and ladders, etc.displayed out in front, in the spring and summer trays of plants are laid out to entice you down the close at the side of the shop to see more in the yard at the back.
Derek at Scott Brothers told me, after I wrote this entry, that the business started with his great great great grandfather, and that it was wholesale before it became retail. They were the first in the town to stock parts for cars and bicycles, and there was a blacksmith's forge out at the back, one of the brothers being a blacksmith. The part at the back of the shop with the cobbled floor was where the cart was parked and the close at the side was once wide enough for the horse and cart to come through.
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Thanks fot looking at my photos of Peebles. It is great to read your comments, so thanks for writing!