Mobile tyres fitting service in Portobello Scotland
We offer the lowest priced tyres and a mobile tyres
fitting service for Portobello Scotland. See our tyres price
check comparison. No call out charge. All leading brands
of car tyres, van tyres, 4X4 tyres & run-flat tyres. We
fit tyres at your place of work or home driveway. Tyres
fitting and balancing is fully guaranteed. Also car
batteries. Our low prices for tyres and car batteries
are fully inclusive, no hidden extras. We don't have
expensive tyres depots so our prices are always low.
We offer a complete range of tyres backed up by our
efficient and cost effective mobile tyres fitting
service for Portobello Scotland. So, rather than having to
travel to a traditional tyre depot to have tyres fitted,
you remain at home or at work and we come to you. This
is much more convenient… and, it also greatly reduces
our operating costs so we are able to slash our selling
prices of tyres by up to 40%.
Unlike many companies selling tyres on-line we have a
head office call centre. This provides advice and
technical information on all aspects of tyres. Also, for
those who prefer to place their order for tyres by
telephone, rather than by buying tyres on-line, we have
a freephone facility (0800 028 9000).
We are proud of our Customer service record, and we
fully guarantee our work. Please feel free to call our
freephone telephone number if you would like personal
help and service, we are always ready and willing to
explain the choices and make sure you are happy with our
sales and service for car tyres and car batteries.
More about Portobello Scotland
Portobello is a beach resort 3 miles (5 km) to the
east of Edinburgh city centre along the coast of the
Firth of Forth from Leith. It is now a suburb of
Edinburgh with a promenade fronting on to the wide sand
beach. For many years it was a popular resort with
Glaswegians, particularly when the Glasgow Fair trades
holiday signalled the start of the rainy season in the
west.
The area was originally known as Figgate Muir and was
used as pasture by the monks of Holyrood Abbey. By the
18th century it had become a haunt of seamen and
smugglers, and around the middle of that century gained
the name Portobello from a cottage built by a seaman who
had served in the 1739 campaign at Puerto Bello in
Panama. It then developed into a fashionable bathing
resort.
By 1801 Portobello Sands were being used for drill
practice by The Edinburgh Light horse. Walter Scott was
kicked by a horse and, while recovering, he finished
“The Lay of the Last Minstrel”. In 1822, the Visit of
King George IV to Scotland, organised by Scott, included
a review of troops and Highlanders held on the sands,
with spectators crowding the sand dunes.
Portobello also became an industrial town manufacturing
bottles, bricks, glass, lead, paper, pottery, soap and
mustard as well as developing an oyster fishery. In 1833
the town was made a burgh then in 1896 it was
incorporated into Edinburgh. Between 1846 and 1964 a
railway station provided ready access for visitors to
the resort. Facilities developed including a large open
air swimming pool and lido (now closed) and a fun-fair.
It was the birthplace of music hall comedian and singer
Sir Harry Lauder.
Portobello gave its name to the town of Portobello in
New Zealand, which lies close to the city of Dunedin
(itself named for Edinburgh).
Courtesy of Wikimedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portobello%2C_Scotland |
