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HEATHER & HAGGIS GIFTS, Off George Street (1979–2025): Sold 40,000 Tea Towels, No Two the Same Ugly
Remembered for its tartan teddy bears and its 'Nessie in a Kilt' snow globes.
Souvenir tea towels, a Perth tradition. Photo: Clan Chief Rupert C Irving, “Irving of Bonshaw Tartan - no. 2609 in the Tartan Registry”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5
PERTH — We remember Heather & Haggis Gifts, a shop beloved by tourists and feared by interior designers.
It sold tartan everything: tartan teddies, tartan mugs, a tartan toilet roll holder that is still in a house in Ohio. It is survived by the Nessie snow globe, which remains unsold and, according to staff, “unsellable”.
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