For 30 years it was one of the capital’s premier shopping palaces, creating a lifetime of fond retail memories for an entire generation of locals.
With five floors of fashion outlets, plus a car park, dining spaces, a nursery, roof garden and menagerie filled with exotic animals and birds, Goldbergs Edinburgh was light years ahead of its time when it opened its doors in the summer of 1960.
Boasting a grand, modern frontage, huge escalators and unique range of shops and services, the purpose-built department store, which occupied 120,000 square feet of High Riggs, Tollcross, was quite unlike anything the capital had seen before.
