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David McLean

The posh Edinburgh sportswear outlet that became a magnet for '80s football casuals

Edinburgh locals have been reminiscing about a lost city centre sports shop that sold high end cricket, rugby and tennis clobber.

For a generation of local sports fans and budding capital athletes, Lillywhites sporting goods emporium at 129 Princes Street was practically a rites of passage.

The posh sport shop, which was founded back in 1863 in London, arrived in Edinburgh in the 1950s and enjoyed several decades on the city's principle shopping stretch.

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