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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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