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Lumley's
Glasgow

Founded in 1900 by boxing promoter, Frederick Alan Lumley, the company began selling sports and athletics goods from three floors of a building on the corner of Sauchiehall Street, then the main shopping street in Glasgow, and Renfield Street. In 1923, when the Salon Cinema next door to them closed they moved into this and it became Lumley House.

There was also a branch in Edinburgh from at least 1904 at 138 Leith Street, moving in 1908 or 1909 to 163 Leith Street and, in the 1912 Edinburgh Post Office Directory, advertising the Scottish Champion range of clubs, one they used throughout the hickory era.

The company started making its own clubs in 1930 - before that they bought in from other makers - and later opened a factory in McAlpine Street, Glasgow. They had a resident golf pro supervising the making of clubs and, in addition to their own outlet, sold through club pros throughout the world.

It was bought by the Greaves family in 1959 and continued as Lumley’s until the early 1980s when it became Greaves.

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