GLASGOW
22. QUEEN’S PARK
There are 22 pub trails in Glasgow. There are ten trails in the centre of the city, plus five in the West End, two on The Southside across the river and four going East.
Three trails explore three of the main streets in the city centre HOPE St; RENFIELD St and WEST NILE St
Two trails are around Squares; GEORGE SQUARE and the OLD FRUIT MARKET in Merchant City.
Another five, trails take in : QUEEN St & GLASSFORD St, JAMAICA St/ST ENOCH, BATH STREET , WATERLOO St & BOTTOM of HOPE St and CHARING CROSS .
Across the river Clyde, on the South side are PAISLEY ROAD WEST and QUEEN’S PARK trails.
Going east are trails for Around THE TRONGATE, up GALLOWGATE , DUKE STREET, Dennistoun and along to SHETTLESTON
In the West End there are more trails - St George's Cross subway to Kelvin Bridge , BYRES ROAD , KELVINBRIDGE , KELVINHALL TO PARTICK and MARYHILL
Plus the SUBWAY CRAWL - 15 subway stops and the closest bars.
GLASGOW: Queen’s Park
Take the train from Glasgow central to Queen’s Park
Exiting the station dictates your route If you go onto Victoria Road you need to turn right and right again to go along to O’ Neil’s on the road (Torrisdale Street) that runs parallel to station (in fact no buildings opposite , just the station wall). If you go out the far end of the station it will be onto Niddrie Road so it is left and left again to go along to O’Neil’s.
Leaving O’neil’s to need to turn left and go to (or return to) Niddrie Rd. Cross over and continue along Torrisdale St to see The Regent on the corner across the road.
From The Regent turn away from main road and go along the side of The regent on Nithsdale Rd this brings you to Titwood Bar and across the road, The Bungo. Cross back over to The Regent and turn up left to discover Allison Arms and then MJ Heraghty.
From here walk up to the corner and cross over to go along Allison St on the right (for your longest walk) to discover Victoria Bar on the fourth corner. Leaving here continue along Allison St to find Ryan’s Bar diagonally opposite on the next corner. After here, cross back over diagonally and go down Westmoreland St to The Bell Jar on the next corner.
Leaving The Bell Jar cross over and go left then left at the corner and down Langside Rd to see The Rose Reilly opposite next corner. From here go down left at the short side of the pub along to the main road where crossing over and going left brings you to Queen’s Park Cafe. Leaving here and walking back up (away from the park) quickly returns you to the station.
Glasgow pubs around Queen’s Park
A place the size of Glasgow size is bound to have its own guides to illustrate the vast quantity, quality and styles of pubs.
CAMRA in Glasgow
Glasgow guide illustrating top ten pubs in different styles of drinking (and dining) eg Style pubs or Live Music pubs.
Timeout listing of best pubs - controversial
A proportion of the pubs in the city centre and west End have real ale but many do not. The west coast still has a bit of a lager flavour - occasionally only lager. Real ale is not limited to trendy style pubs, and not even in many of these.
Glasgow does not have the tourist grouping of pubs as found in Edinburgh - they are mainly aimed at Glasgow folk.
McNeil’s
McNeil’s - getting refurbished
The Regent
The Regent is a square corner with a bar door on either street. Entering from the main road there is blue banquette seating along wall at right while round to left is standing room with glass holding shelves along the wall. Along the far-left wall is the servery running up to the other doorway. There are some stools along counter and a large TV on the wall behind the bar. In the centre of the room is a thin tall table with stools fitted around the pillars. The colour scheme is different shades of grey for the brickwork, wood and trimmings. This is a change from previous decoration of red, blue and white with Rangers pictures and mirrors.
Heavy: Caledonia Best
Lager: Birra moretti ; Tennent’s; Coors; Madri; Warsteiner
Cider: Strongbow ; Strongbow Dark Fruit Guinness
Titwood Bar
Titwood Bar has a two door frontage with both vestibules entering to the same room. The right-hand door has blue coloured banquette seating either side of it. Then in front and along the rear wall is the servery with black marble counter and brass foot and arm rests. The servery curves round a little then stops allowing a rear seating area.
From left door there is a vestibule then round to right and left green banquette seating and tables. This is separated by a pillar from more side seating and the rear area both with brown banquette seating and with rectangular tables and a mixture of chairs and small stools.
Have a pint here
Heavy: John Smiths
Lager: Heverlee; Innes and Gunn; Tennent’s; Birra Moretti; Menabrea; Coors
Cider: Magners ; Strongbow Guinness
The Bungo
The Bungo Bar and Kitchen has a frontage largely consisting of windows so is very light inside. The door enters to a room on the left which has small booth seating for six along the window edge. Down most of the left wall is a long steel counter which appears waitress service and cocktail making at the left while at the far end are beer dispensers and some bar stools. The centre and right of the room has two distinct areas with four tables in a centre booth area then beyond that banquette seating and small tables in the far corner keeping the drinkers opposite the bar stool part of the counter. This makes great use of the room and keeps an intimate feel. To the right of the entrance door is a room for more formal dining area and stairs down to a function room.
Heavy/Pale Ale: Seven Peaks; Ossian; Joker; Kelvin Pilsner
Lager: Heverlee
Cider: Reveller Orchard Pig
Non-alcoholic: Luck Saint
Allison Arms
The Allison Arms is an unusual bar. The frontage has the usual bar and lounge entrances however they are not at the far ends of the building therefore on entry of either you can turn both right and left. Then there is a centre office and servery block inside forming an island with servery on two and a bit sides where the main service counter is round facing to the back of the room. Unusual design apart it is an excellent establishment.
Going in the left public bar door the servery corner starts just in front of you while to the left there a table by the window and a fireplace on left wall, and to the right there is a connecting passage with two tall tables, through to the lounge entrance. The servery continues round to the left facing the brick wall and runs up to the rear of the room and round to the right where it runs over to the lounge side. Opposite the servery on the left wall is a large mirror and some shelves for standing at. The servery continues round to the right and has a stacked gantry with large mirror behind it. Stools are arranged round the counter. Opposite the servery on the back wall and closer to the lounge end are four self-service fridges with craft beers in them.
The right lounge enters into, on the right, small round tables with banquette seating against the brick wall leading up to the rear where the servery starts. While if you had gone left at the door there is a short passage with two tall tables and chairs leading to the bar door.
Have a pint here
Heavy/Pale Ale: Punk IPA ; Disco Fork Lift Truck; Belhaven Best Lager: Kelvin Pilsner; Menabrea; Stella; Heverlee ; Tennent’s; Innes & Gunn Cider: Blackthorn Guinness
Four self service Craft ale fridges against rear wall 4
MJ Heraghty
MJ Heraghty is a one roomed pub with a little seating to right of door then the servery right hand wall. the pub is in CAMRA’s “Scotland’s True Heritage Pubs” showing pubs of historical interest.
On left wall is dark green banquette seating with small shelve like tables with a lower shelves for pints when playing dominoes. Further in are a couple of round tables. The pub has a large well stocked gantry with mirrors at back.
Tiles by the wooden counter and the floor is wood beyond this. Match strikers on the counter front have been replaced with charging points.
Have a pint here
Heavy/Pale Ale: Neck oil; Belhaven Best;
Lager: Tennent’s; Bidvar; Birra Moretti; Stella; Carling; Menabrea; St Mungo; Camden Hells
Cider: Magners Guinness
PLACES TO VISIT WITH PUBTRAILS
The towns and villages highlighted on this web site have a wide variety of pubs and beers in them. All of the places are great to visit, whether for a day or longer, and most have tourist attractions for all of the family.
There is a large variety of pubs throughout the different towns shown below. Some you may wish never to visit again but even discovering these can be interesting. There are pubs that you would not take your wife into. While some you could not take your girlfriend into. A few you would not take either into. However, most of the pubs are very pleasant.
HOME MAP of places visited
Alnwick Ambleside Anstruther Bakewell Bamburgh Barnard Castle Bath Berwick upon Tweed Birnam & Dunkeld Bourton on the Water Bowness on Windermere Bridge of Allan Chester Chichester Dunblane Dunoon Edinburgh Ely Fort William Glasgow Gourock Greenock Helensburgh Inverness Kelso Keswick Knaresborough Largs Linlithgow Lyme Regis Melrose Montrose Newton Stewart North Berwick Norwich Oban Pebbles Penzance Portree Pitlochry Quorn Richmond Rothesay St Andrews Seahouses Seend Shrewsbury Skipton Stirling Stratford-upon-Avon Stockton Heath Whitby Windemere Whitstable York
Victoria Bar
The Victoria Bar is a large corner pub with doors on each side. Main road entrance would have been the bar one and via a vestibule this takes you into close to the server. There is banquette seating at rectangular wooden tables to either side of the entrance. The seating continues on the right side under the windows, Opposite is a servery where the counter zig-zags up the bar room. The counter has stools along it with a tiled floor and wood beyond the bar area. At the end of the counter there is the side door and further on a large lounge having many corners to give some intimacy rather than just an open space with carpet and banquette seating all around the many walls.
Heavy: Tartan; Caledonia Best
Lager: Tenennt’s; Carling; Birra Moretti; Heverlee
Cider: Magners ; Strongbow Guinness
Ryan’s bar
Ryan’s Bar is a corner bar with only the one door on the main road side. Inside there is padded seating to the right with small round tables and wooden chairs and a brick wall above. Opposite door and along the back wall going to the left is the pinkish marble servery. Stools line the counter on a wooden floor.
There is rectangular tables along both window sides.
The counter has seven numbered dispensers and the beers being delivered are advertised on a chalk board on the left wall where brewery, % alcohol and price are also shown.
Have a pint here
Lager: Tennent’s
Cider: Magners Guinness
The six available beers were:
Kelvin Pilsner (Drygate); Framboise (6oNorth); Soundwave IPA (Siren); Gladeye IPA (Drygate) ; Red Kite (Black Isle) and Joker IPA (Williams Bros)
The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar is a long thin corner bar and diner with entrance from a corner positioned door. Right opposite the door is the servery counter curving out from the back wall. To the left of the door there is some banquette seating with a table and hard chairs positioned under the window. Similar style banquette seating, tables and chairs along the right wall opposite the servery.
Beyond the servery is a dining area with banquette seating along the side and rear wall with tables and padded chairs.
Have a pint here
Heavy/Pale Ale: Gladeye;
Overtone Pale Ale (Momentum);
Lager: Peroni; St Mungo; Williams Bros Craft Lager; Heidi Weiss
Cider: Pulpit Cider West Black
The Rose Reilly
The Rose Reilly is a corner bar where the shorter side door would have been for the bar and lounge entrance on the longer side. It is a warm and welcoming establishment.
Going in lounge door on the longer side the lounge is to the left with banquette seating under the windows and along to the right (but not meeting in the window corner) then along the back and own the side to the start of the servery. The seating has rectangular wooden tables and padded wooden barrel chairs. Nicely decorated with brown wood, dark red seating and dark green painted walls. The centre of the lounge has similar tables and chairs.
To the right of the lounge entrance is a narrower room with the servery against the back wall. This has a wooden zig-zag counter with stools not quite the length of the wall. Beyond the servery are the toilet doors and some tall tables by the other door. Opposite the servery there are some more rectangular tables under the windows. There is a lot of space for outside seating in sunny times.
Have a pint here
Heavy/Pale Ale: Ember; Arbor (Arbor Ales Bristol)
Lager: Budvar; Flensburger; Tennent’s
Cider: Hogan's Cider Guinness
Queen’s Park Cafe
The Queen’s Park Café is not a cafe and does not even pretend to be one. Café was added to try and distract the temperance movement around 1890. It fact it is a large old pub with and oval island servery and a lounge beyond which also has a door up the left side lane.
Going in the front door there is a large banquette seating area to the right with two booths below the outside and red banquette seating round the other two sides of the square area. To the left where there is only one window there is a small table. Immediately in front of the vestibule entrance is the bottom of a long oval counter. Going up the left is the main length of the island oval where at the top the oval curves around and the staff entrance to the servery is there. The counter then runs back down to the front door. Opposite the counter, right, top and left are wide shelving, with occasional snob screen, and mirrors above, for sitting at on stools. Small snob screens splits up these shelves and there is also a snob screen where each curve of the oval starts.
At the top of either side of the room is a passage way into the lounge and once inside the lounge servery, with stools, curves between the two doors. The left side passage also has the door out to the lane. The lounge, carpeted away from the bar, has banquette seating with mirrors on wall above and wooden tables with stools. The seating is arranged in booth like area using wooden screens to separate it up. The décor is mainly making use of the wooden fixtures and fittings with what wall available yellow or green in the bar or yellow and brown in the lounge.
History
Have a pint here
Heavy: Caledonia Best; Seven Peaks
Lager: Tennent’s; Birra Moretti; Carling; Innes & Gunn
Cider: Magners; Strongbow Guinness
Links for Glasgow city centre Pubtrails
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Trail 1 - Around George Square
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Waxy O’ Connors
Dow’s
The Vale (now closed)
Camperdown Place (closed)
Georgics
The Ark
The Piper
Committee Room No 9
Katie’s Bar
Drouthys
The Counting House
The Anchor Line
The Citizen (was The Trading House)
The Auctioneers
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Trail 2 - HOPE STREET
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Stereo
The Old Hairdressers
The Society Room
The Pot Still.
Molly Malone's.
MacConnell's
Ardnamurchan (was Trader Joe's)
Rufus T Firefly
NYC Bar
Ad Lib
The Toby Jug
The Smokin' Fox (formerly The Hope)
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Trail 3 RENFIELD STREET
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The Merchant
The Maltman
The Raven
Lauders.
The Atholl Arms
Walkabout
The Renfield Bar
Revolution
Missoula
Revolucion De Cuba
The Drum and Monkey
The Horseshoe.
Dury Lane Bar & Kitchen
Yes Bar - closed
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Trail 4 - WEST NILE St
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Vroni's Wine Bar
The Shilling Brewing Co.
The Iron Horse - closed
The Station Bar
The Intermezzo
Alfie’s (was Alfredo's)
Cul Cuil (was The Courtyard)
All Bar One
Innes & Gunn Talroom
Los Iguanas
Revolution
Ross's Original Bar
Tabac
August House
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Trail 5 - AROUND THE FRUITMARKET
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Bar 91
Beer Cafe
The Metropolitan
Marmalade Skies (was Boudoir Wine Bar) - closed
Bar Square
The Tap Room (was Steak, Rattle and Roll which was Bar Espagnol Mercado)
O'Neil's
Bar Soba
Bar Gandolfi.
Bar Home
Babbity Bowster,
Strathduie (was Macgregor's Pie & Ale Howf and before that Strathduie !)
The Black Bull
McChuills
Connolly’s LIQR (was LIQR and before that The G-Lounge)
Blackfriars of Bell St
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Trail 6 -A circle around Waterloo St & Hope St
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The Smokin’ Fox (was The Hope)
Kitty O'Shea's
El Camino (was The Drop)
Rhoderick Dhu
The Woods
The Waterloo
The Duke’s Umbrella
Sir John Muir
Oswald’s (was Kellys ;was Quarter Gill)
No 16 Bar & Kitchen (was Sotto; was The Two Heided Man)
Denholms
Solid Rock Cafe
The Alpen Lodge
The Park Lane
26 Hope St
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Trail 7 - Queen St and Glassford St
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Biere Halle
The Lab
Wonderbar
Sloans
Rocky O' Sullivans CLOSED
Strata CLOSED
Max's Bar & Grill
Thundercat
The Spiritualist
Cairns
Steps Bar
Blane Valley
Bacchus
Rab Ha's
The Pavement
The Doghouse
The Gallery Bar
The Amsterdam
The Oriental (closed)
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Trail 8 - Jamaica St- St Enoch
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O'Neil's (was The Royal Scott)
The Grant Arms
The Crystal Palace
Macsorley's
The Imperial
The Mint & Lime
Lauristons
Gallagher’s (was Kelly’s and was Coyote)
Hootenanny
Times Square
Crafty Joe's (taken over by Times Square)
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Trail 16 - Charing Cross
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Bavaria Baurhaus
Slug & Lettuce
Bon Accord
Chinaski’s
The Locale
Driftwood
The Hall
Nico’s
Kilt & Kocktails
The Hengler’s Circus
The State
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Trail 10 - Bath St
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Golf Loung
Buck’s Bar
Bloc+
The Butterfly and The Pig
Palomino
Slouch
The Griffin
Tiki Bar and Kitsch Inn
St Judes
Howlin’ Wolf
Malones
The Bay Horse
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Trail 19 - Paisley Rd West
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Lauriston Bar
The Quayside bar
The Union Bar
The Old Toll Bar
The Viceroy
The Bellrock
Grapes
The District bar
Kensington Bar
Park Bar
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trail 22 -Queen's Park
McNeil’s
The Regent
Titwood Bar
TheBbungo
Allison Arms
MJ Heraghty
Victoria Bar
Ryan’s bar
The Bell Jar
The Rose reilly
Queen’s Park Cafe
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Trail 9 - Around The Trongate
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Grace’s Irish Sports Bar
Buck’s Bar
Boteco do Brazil
Maggie May's
Avant Garde
13th Note -(closed)
Old Empire Bar (closed)
Whistler on the Green
The Old Ship Bank Bar
The Winds
The Victoria & Clutha
The Scotia
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Trail 17 - up the Gallowgate
Chrystal Bell & Co
MacKinnon’s
The Gate (check opening)
Bar ‘67 (check opening)
226 Gallowgate
Hielan Jessie
The Wee Man’s Pub
The Drover
Van Winkle (check opening)
Luke’s & The Flying Ox
Traders Lounge
The Old Burnt Barns (check opening)
Braemar
Tollbooth Bar
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Trail 18 - Duke Street, Dennistoun
The Bristol bar
The Louden tavern
The Duke Bar
the Crown Creighton
The Alexandra Bar
The Snug
The Palais
Redmond’s of Dennistoun
The Drover
The Wee Man’s Bar
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Trail 21 -Shettleston
Snedden’s Inn
The Palaceum
The Town Tavern
The Cottage Bar
The Marquis
The Drum
The Portland Arms
The Railway tavern
The Kirkhouse
Miller’s
Links for Glasgow West End & Subway Pubtrails
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Trail 11 - St George's to Kelvinbridge
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The Castle Vaults
The Hug and Pint
The Scallion (was Munro's then The Bull and now ..)
Wintersgills
The Lansdowne - closed
Webster's
Inn Deep
Cooper’s
Bakehouse
The Left bank
Stravaigin
The Doublet
Schoolhouse
Dram!
Arlington
The Carnarvon Bar
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Trail 12- Byres Rd
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Curler's Rest
the Wee Pub/The Pub
Innes & Gunn Brewery Tap
Brel
Vodka Wodka
Jinty McGinty’s
Hillhead Book Club
The Parlour
Oran Mor
BeGin
Tennent's Bar
Bar Soba
The Aragon
The Hill - closed
Gumbo - closed
The Record Factory
The Three Judges
Bag O'Nails
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Trail 13 - Kelvingrove
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Dirty Duchess
Lebowskis
Taphouse
The Grove
The Big Slide
The Snaffle Bit
The Butchershop
BrewDog
Dukes Bar
The Islay Inn
The Park Bar
No 78
Kelvingrove Cafe
The Ben Nevis
Finnieston
Brass Monkey
Strip Joint
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trail 15 - Kelvinhall to Partick and back
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To To
Kelvinhall Patrick Stumps Bar Three Judges
The Fiddlers The Dolphin
Victoria Bar Bag O’Nails
Quarter Gill Storm Queen
The Linsmor Smiddy Bar
Sparkle Horse Tenement Bar
Bauhaus Windsor Tav.
Record Factory Rosevale Tav.
Gallus Deoch An Dorus
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trail 20 - Maryhill
LOWER
The Castle Vaults
The Tower
the Star & Garter
Munn’s
The BrewHaus
The Botany Bar
The Woodside Inn
The Royalty Bar
UPPER
The First & Last
Kelvin Dock
The Punch Bow;
The Viking Bar
The Lockhouse
Harvey’s Bar
The Ram’s Head
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Trail 14 - Glasgow Subway
Waxy O'Connors
Jackson’s
Castle Vaults
The Hug
The Doublet
Curler’s Rest
The Bag O' Nails
Deoch and Doris
Brechin's
The Louden Tavern
Kensington
The Bellrock
Stanley Bar - closed
The Old Toll Bar
The Lord Nelson - closed
Laurieston
Times Square
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Who owns your pubs?
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Interesting articles to read
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Who owns your beer?
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Comparing pubs in Scotland with England
Links to pages and sites
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Books on Beer
A variety of recommended books to improve your knowledge of beer and brewing
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Stevenson & MacKay
Craig Stevenson and John MacKay use their bus passes to visit pubs the length and breadth of Scotland.
They have recorded their adventures in seven books.
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Books on Pubs
A veriety of recommended books that describe the history and development of the public house.
ANSWER: Alexander Fleming