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Best pub in Dundee?
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Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:47 pmby bill
Anyone had the pleasure of downing a pint or two or three or more in this pub?
Not the best pub in Dundee
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Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:19 amby almax
Bill
Great photo - when I was a long-haired student in Dundee 1972-75 I lived in a flat just 30 yards up the lane from the pub in the picture- in Tait's Lane - in those days it was a real spit and sawdust, men-only (I'm not joking- women were not allowed in !!) hard-drinking pub - it looks a lot posher now - the two great merits for me were the name of the pub and the fact that it was within staggering distance from home. I was a regular in there for a couple of years.
Nice memories revived by your photo.
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Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:34 amby scotty
You are right almax it was as shit hole but it is in one of the so called rich parts of Dundee now so don't know what is like now as have not been in it for ten years
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Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:07 amby gizmo
Any idea how it got its name?
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Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:47 amby Beachcomber
No idea but I see there's another bar with the same name in Ayr.
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Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:13 amby dr-sanchez
drinking there next year - first year as a student in dundee starting in september!
how do you think i'll get on if i ask for a free pint - reason being i hail from the town!?
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Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:00 amby daftdog
dr-sanchez wrote:drinking there next year - first year as a student in dundee starting in september!
how do you think i'll get on if i ask for a free pint - reason being i hail from the town!?
Nae chance... rumour has it copper wire was invented by two dundonians fighting over an old half penny..
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Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:44 pmby gers#1fan
drinking there next year - first year as a student in dundee starting in september!
how do you think i'll get on if i ask for a free pint - reason being i hail from the town!?
Nae chance... rumour has it copper wire was invented by two dundonians fighting over an old half penny.. Laughing
Campbeltwon Bar - Ayr
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Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:38 amby Hels
I was a student in both Dundee and Ayr. Never came across the one in Dundee but the bus into town went right past the Ayr one!
After 4 years of persuassion, me and my mates stumbled in there one night just after we finished our finals. I was pretty much inebriated by the time we went in, but it was defnately what Almax calls a "spit and sawdust place", where I doubt few women had gone before - the ladies was basically a cleaning cupboard with the loo stuck in as an afterthought! But this wasn't the 1970's - it was 2001! Never waited long, even though the drink was cheap!