Thomas Tosh

Thomas Tosh occupies Thornhill's former parish hall, bought in April 2008 by David Cripps and Paul O'Keeffe, who left careers in retail management and BBC journalism in London to convert the building into a combined bookshop, gift and interiors shop and gallery. A café serving hot food runs alongside the retail floor, and a changing exhibition programme fills the gallery walls. The business is named after Thomas Tosh, a fictional beadle created by Thornhill writer Joseph Laing Waugh in a story first published in 1921, and a bust of Waugh stands at the building's front. The shop briefly ran a second unit on Drumlanrig Street between 2009 and 2013 before consolidating trade back into the parish hall. It now opens seven days a week.