jambopompey Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 lizzie brice in dedridge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miller Jambo 60 Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Another couple from Corstorphine.... The Dorlin and The Harp Aye the Dorlin good for a sunday drink and then the Post House. What was that wee pub in Bread Street , lucky if it held 10 people. Doug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serj Tankian Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 What was that wee pub in Bread Street , lucky if it held 10 people. Tipplers run by a woman who claimed to be Royality in africa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Thor Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 The Travellers Tryst? now there's a blast fi the past. Used to drink in there before home games around 84/85/86 as we got served nae problem. IIRC there was a really pretty blonde girl that worked behind the bar but i'm buggered if i can remember her name. Used to do the Burnt Post, Lord Toms etc of a Sat night as well. Lived in Granton in those days and we'd drink in the Wardie Hotel or the Granton Tap or occasionally in the Anchor Inn. The Anchor was like the Willie Muir. Totally RAF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 The Beau Brummel on Hanover Street was a bit of a haunt from my Scottish Life days and across the road was The Marie Rose (now Jeckyll & Hyde). Great boozer that never seemed to shut - even on a Tuesday night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboJay Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 My first illicit beer at 15/16 or there-abouts was in the upstairs bar of the Rutland Hotel, round about 1971. After a scotland/England rugby International IIRC Its been downhill eversince......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gasman Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Aye the Dorlin good for a sunday drink.... I think Sundays, and functions, were the only times there were folk in the Dorlin ! The only place that on a Sunday afternoon could unite all the ****heads from the Rainbow, the Mid, the Cenny, the Harp, and the Oak ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leginten Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Anyone ever frequent the Green Tree in the Cowgate? Wee place built like a tank-trap, sold real ales before anywhere else that I was aware of. It was kind of my cult pub when I first started drinking - a place for quiet contemplation of the ...interesting... clientele rather than mass consumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambopompey Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Anyone ever frequent the Green Tree in the Cowgate? Wee place built like a tank-trap, sold real ales before anywhere else that I was aware of. It was kind of my cult pub when I first started drinking - a place for quiet contemplation of the ...interesting... clientele rather than mass consumption. used to drink there defore crossing the street to evol, where it was 3-1 on females to guys, the odds that worked in my favour for a winch or more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boaby Prentice Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 The Kestrel The Glencraig Bonkers Staggers How is my liver still in tact? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miller Jambo 60 Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 I think Sundays, and functions, were the only times there were folk in the Dorlin ! The only place that on a Sunday afternoon could unite all the ****heads from the Rainbow, the Mid, the Cenny, the Harp, and the Oak ! Have we mentioned the Struan opposite the Post House. Remember the fountain,was at an 18th there ,probs the 1st and last time. Worst boozer in the Corrie area must be the Carrick knowe, boring shop. Was a corrie inn man at 18 , and remember getting free drink off Jimmy Orouke . But my fav pubs were the Harp and Oak. Doug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boof Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Which reminds me of a nice wee pub just around the corner up that one-way street leading to Grassmarket. Can't think of its name... Tipplers run by a woman who claimed to be Royality in africa. Ahhhhh...thanks NoG. Couldn't even remember the name of the street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yvonnejambo Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Have we mentioned the Struan opposite the Post House.Remember the fountain,was at an 18th there ,probs the 1st and last time. Worst boozer in the Corrie area must be the Carrick knowe, boring shop. Was a corrie inn man at 18 , and remember getting free drink off Jimmy Orouke . But my fav pubs were the Harp and Oak. Doug. The post house and the struan were my under age drinking places when I worked in the zoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PontiusPilate Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 My local was the Snuff Box,long gone now.Had my first pint in the Fortunes Tavern on the same street,now that was a complete dive full of jakes,irish and salvation army punters As a kid I used to get the old dart boards out the snuff box, never had a pint in it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PontiusPilate Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Hamilton Lodge, Seabeach, Sands all good Porty pubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemclaren Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Spent many an evening in the darkness that was Leerie's on Dublin Street...not to mention the odd night in the Traveller's Tryst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Spent many an evening in the darkness that was Leerie's on Dublin Street...not to mention the odd night in the Traveller's Tryst. I met a girl in there and ended up living with her for 5 years. I don't blame the darkness though as she as still quite attractive the morning after I met her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boof Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 The Green Mantle...still there? Clerk Street-ish The Grapes further out the road...not much to recommend it, if my memory serves me correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gasman Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 The post house and the struan were my under age drinking places when I worked in the zoo The Struan is still on the go, but from the outside at least it's looking a bit tired, and the "For Sale" sign's been up for quite a while, so I guess it won't be arround much longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemclaren Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 I met a girl in there and ended up living with her for 5 years. I don't blame the darkness though as she as still quite attractive the morning after I met her. You met a girl in Leerie's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 You met a girl in Leerie's? It may have changed from the 70's Dave, this was 1990. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemclaren Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 It may have changed from the 70's Dave, this was 1990. I rest my case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticJambo Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 the place down the stairs was l'attache used to work at the caley, many a happy drunk mid-week night spent in there A'attache. Went in there one night to clean the blood off my face after getting KO'd in Shandwick Place Friday night before Xmas circa early nineties. I could tell it was bad as the bouncer looked concerned. Work lunch and carry-oot/afternoon drinking in the cooncil office til late leads to trouble ... pour moi anyway. Spent the entire match the next day up, at McDiarmid, picking dried blood oot ma hooter - quite pleasureable in a ooh, ooh kinda way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber Harris' Best Mate Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Can someone refresh my memory about The Burnt Post please. I'm damned if I can remember where it was. Ta. The same pub the Hibs mob are coming from, Hearts are in Morrison's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber Harris' Best Mate Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Have we mentioned the Struan opposite the Post House.Remember the fountain,was at an 18th there ,probs the 1st and last time. Worst boozer in the Corrie area must be the Carrick knowe, boring shop. Was a corrie inn man at 18 , and remember getting free drink off Jimmy Orouke . But my fav pubs were the Harp and Oak. Doug. The Carrick Knowe is and never will be in "the corrie" area despite it just being down the road from the REAL AND THE ONE AND ONLY Corstorphine pub IE The Corrie Inn all the other ones you mention are just wannabe's as previously mentioned... The Oak ? what history has that pub got ? full of ******wits ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogsfaesydney Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 the old man used to take me to buggys in dalry, packet of crisps and a juice and dumped in the corner for hours. John Glasgow stayed with me for a while when he owned it, or his missus Joy depending who you believed. Used to have some wild times in there before coming to Oz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogsfaesydney Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Yes, pretty sure Buggy's was originally Eric Browns. Yes thats right it was Eric Browns before Buggys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogsfaesydney Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 My pal always talks of a pub in Edinburgh that had a tiger in a cage? Is this true? I think it was the Coburg bar in Coburg St and I'm sure it was a puma or apanther is/was a right blue nose pub if I remember rightly they had a big mural King Billy on his white horse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy McNulty Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Used to frequent Smugglers that was opposite Bannerman's. Think it is called something else now (we were wanky students at the time). Our local was the Southsider. Great steak pies.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuarty Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Magic thread this. The Seahaven (Joppa) Jenny Ha's (Cannongate) The Golden Gates (Meadowbank) I used to drink in the Seahaven in my school uniform. The barman would ask if we were old enough to drink and he we would say aye... in which he would reply... fair enough then pull us a pint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portobellojambo1 Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 I think it was the Coburg bar in Coburg St and I'm sure it was a puma or apanther is/was a right blue nose pub if I remember rightly they had a big mural King Billy on his white horse I drank in the Coburg for years, occasionally worked the bar as well, and I have no recollection of such an artefact being in the pub (i.e. an animal in a cage). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMBOANDO Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Granton tap,only for the brave:taz: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miller Jambo 60 Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 The Carrick Knowe is and never will be in "the corrie" area despite it just being down the road from the REAL AND THE ONE AND ONLY Corstorphine pub IE The Corrie Inn all the other ones you mention are just wannabe's as previously mentioned... The Oak ? what history has that pub got ? full of ******wits ! The corrie inn was a great shop and very busy. When i was about 19 helped out in Corstorphine school that had a disco every Sat for youths. The helpers took shifts of going for a pint to the Inn. Then to tarrys for a supper after. Doug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith greenhill Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 The Carrick Knowe is and never will be in "the corrie" area despite it just being down the road from the REAL AND THE ONE AND ONLY Corstorphine pub IE The Corrie Inn all the other ones you mention are just wannabe's as previously mentioned... The Oak ? what history has that pub got ? full of ******wits ! Your only sayin that cause your obviuosly full of the brave juice eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWL Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 The Galloping Major (latterly The Pub), The 37 Bar both on Rose Street, Oscars below the Rutland. Toni's cellar bar, Jess's Bar.................so many memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legend Claws Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 The pubs of my youth were The Kestrel and Johnsburn House in Balerno, worked in both for years and both are sadly now gone (JB still there as it is a Baronial mansion, just not open as a boozer anymore). Kestrel was flattened to make way for over priced houses with four inches between them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 I think it was the Coburg bar in Coburg St and I'm sure it was a puma or apanther is/was a right blue nose pub if I remember rightly they had a big mural King Billy on his white horse Not the Coburg, this place was actually on the Shore on the opposite side to all the bars there now. A right rough shop filled with dockers, crooks and prostitutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dboy Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 I think it was the Coburg bar in Coburg St and I'm sure it was a puma or apanther is/was a right blue nose pub if I remember rightly they had a big mural King Billy on his white horse My Dad worked behind the bar in the early 70's - I would "help" out as a kid to get the bar ready (memories of wet beer towls and dusty bottles of sweetheart stout) - I would have remembered a wild cat! So I agree with all those who say no! My haunts - the Bay Horse in Henderson Street was my first regular drinking haunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 My haunts - the Bay Horse in Henderson Street was my first regular drinking haunt. The Bay Horse was always useful for a couple of pints and a game of pool after signing on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Can't believe that no one that drinks in Corstorphine has mentioned Westburys...epic pub if you wanted a knife in between the shoulder blades Also stepping stones in the grassmarket was a pretty good wee pub but I think that was because it was one of the first pubs I got served in. Not even sure what it is now but I don't think it's a pub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dboy Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 The Bay Horse had the smallest pool room ever - they had a special short cue for those awkward shots. A suggestion for the pub with the wildcat (from another website) is Fairleys apparently where Gullianos on the shore is now http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_edin/1_edinburgh_history_-_recollections_leith_wild_cat.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Towzer Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Can't believe that no one that drinks in Corstorphine has mentioned Westburys...epic pub if you wanted a knife in between the shoulder blades Aye,there was many a good pagger in there at the weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith greenhill Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Can't believe that no one that drinks in Corstorphine has mentioned Westburys...epic pub if you wanted a knife in between the shoulder blades Aye' date='there was many a good pagger in there at the weekend[/quote'] Aye and you were in them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Rob Roy was my old mans second house !! - used to love watching the paggers on a friday night from my bedroom window my own memories the Wine Glass (my second home:2thumbsup:) the Abbey Minders Corkers Mr Mustards Gatsbys the Pub Outer Limits:stuart: Ciderellas(?1 a crowd anyone ?) Century 2000(through the front doors, left turn and down into the bogs, then staight up the stairs without paying:smiley2:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miller Jambo 60 Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Rob Roy was my old mans second house !! - used to love watching the paggers on a friday night from my bedroom window my own memories the Wine Glass (my second home:2thumbsup:) the Abbey Minders Corkers Mr Mustards Gatsbys the Pub Outer Limits:stuart: Ciderellas(?1 a crowd anyone ?) Century 2000(through the front doors, left turn and down into the bogs, then staight up the stairs without paying:smiley2:) Has Westwoods been mentioned yet, was in Haymarket. Plenty nice tottie on a fri and sat. Had a footie team for a while to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 The Bay Horse had the smallest pool room ever - they had a special short cue for those awkward shots. A suggestion for the pub with the wildcat (from another website) is Fairleys apparently where Gullianos on the shore is now http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_edin/1_edinburgh_history_-_recollections_leith_wild_cat.htm That's it, it was called the Westward Ho when I started drinking round there. I never went in though as it looked a bit rough to say the least. And to stand out as a rough boozer round the Shore in those days was quite an achievement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam Tarts 1874 Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 lizzie brice in dedridge Had a mate in Livi in the 80's, went with him to a few of the combined darts/pool flyers, great stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam Tarts 1874 Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 The Rat TrapThe Rob Roy THe Phoenix THe Captains Stabbin The Lorna Doone The Plevna THe Trot Inn If you mean the old "firey" Phoenix in Broughton Street - it's still there, without the go-go dancers though. The Cabin, different name, same clientelle, but now with added shotgun killings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Loved Jamies, loathe Bierex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wibble Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Not quite true..it was actually pitched at the previously un-tapped backpackers market, loosely based on a club run in london called 'the church'. We(oops gave myself away there!) imported beers and spirits from Oz, NZ and SA whcih had previoly not been available for sale commercialy in scotland, such as Stein, castle and Tooheys this was in 96/97 long before this stuff became the norm. it worked for about 6 months but in changing it to backpackers bar we actually started to lose out on the student hardcore after a while so the decsion was taken to revert back to a more mainstream bar. When i was back last month i checked it out, it is still there but you can know see the bar from the street, the tunnel(which it was also briefly called) has been removed, i was told that its never busy now and dosent look like it will last much longer. Before it was Oddfellows that joint was a Boutique/ 2nd Hand record shop. Pretty sure I bought my first Devo album there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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