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E A McMillan
Aberdeen

E A McMillan ‘fancy goods store’ was one of Aberdeen’s great department stores, opening its doors in 1896 at 151 Union Street (at the end of Union Bridge, now part of the Trinity Centre) having taken over the business of the previous occupant of the premises, John Seivwright. There was some form of non-competition agreement with Seivwright, because when he continued as ‘Berlin wool and fancy goods merchant’ further up Union Street, McMillan sued for breach of this agreement in 1897 but lost the case.

With ‘The Premier Place for Gifts’ as one of their slogans, golfing goods were important items from the beginning, an 1896 advertisement announced they were ‘agents for Robert Forgan & Son’s (St Andrews) famed golf clubs’ and offered Silvertown golf balls ‘thoroughly seasoned’ for 9s 6d a dozen.

At some point they started to sell their own brands of golf clubs: those I have seen from the mid-1920s.

The building was bought by Littlewoods in 1964 and McMillan moved to a smaller space at 395 Union Street cutting staff from 50 to 10. However, the business closed permanently at the end of March 1966. There was another branch in Dundee which closed a year earlier

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