Let's do the timewarp

I'd passed this ghost sign on Buccleuch Street once before and thought I had better photograph it in case it was covered over again.

A bit of digging in the old Post Office directories suggests this was James Duncan & Son, who was a "slater and plasterer".  It had previously been the business of Hossack & Beveridge, painters and decorators, and before them, engineers and clerks of works David Wight and William Reid.  I don't know when the glazier occupied the premises, however.

The directories are full of old tyme house-related businesses like lathsplitters, hearthbuilders and ovenbuilders, paper varnishers and gummers, and fireproofing contractors, along with distant enterprises like gutta percha merchants, optical limelight lanternists and portmanteu makers.

Two interesting entries that @flumgummery might like were Alex Shiels, who was a sewing-machine agent working next door at no.37, and Christian Back who was the "sole agent for Edinburgh and District" for Pfaff, based at 28 Rose Street.