The tradition of visiting the city's big department stores and shopping centres to see Santa in his grotto has been around for as long as any of us can remember.
In fact, experts say that the very first grotto appeared as part of a 'Christmas Fairyland' in Lewis's Bon Marche department store in Liverpool way back in 1879 - a world first, so it's long been claimed.
But believe it or not, there is evidence out there to suggest that Edinburgh pioneered the concept of a Santa's grotto - depending on how you define such a thing.
