Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was brought up a few doors away from the Buttercup shop in Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh. She has fond childhood memories of the old shop and writes in her autobiography

"It was with the Buttercup Dairy Company that I associated Robert Louis Stevenson’s lines from my earliest infancy:

One morning, very early, when the sun was up,
I rose and found the shiny due on every buttercup

And the sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth"

The Buttercup: The Remarkable Story of Andrew Ewing and the Buttercup Dairy Company

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