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The Dean Tavern - A Gothenburg Experiment

Appendix 4

Other Local Goths

The Black Bull Inn at Dalkeith was opened in 1905 by the Dalkeith Public House and Improvement Society. Shares were sold and profits were restricted to 5% (an excellent rate of return then). Any profit above that figure was to be spent on the welfare of the community. The company was wound up in the 1920s but the Black Bull is still 'the Goth' in Dalkeith.

In 1911, James Black, the licensee at Stobhill Inn was allowed to transfer the Stobhill licence to a new pub at Hunterfield, the Hunterfield Tavern. Both premises belonged to the Arniston Coal Co. which proposed to run the new pubs as a Gothenburg. Though it has long since been a brewery pub, Gorebridge people know it as 'the Goth'. The profits paid tor the building ot the Dundas Hall Picture House in the 1920s. It is not clear how the Hunterfield ceased to be a Goth and there appear to be no surviving records.

There was also a Goth at Niddrie probably begun by the Niddrie and Benhar Coal Co.

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