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Res.3.26 Summary of a visit to "The Anchor", 8 June 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/3/26

Scope and Contents

Summary by a male researcher of a visit to the pub on West Granton Road at 8.30pm on Thursday evening. There were about 45 men in the main large public bar at the time of his visit. He describes the interior as "rather dully decorated in a 1939-ish style. The walls were stucco, mainly cream with little red and green stripes in it. There were two rather crude nautical pictures, which were rather more like designs. The floors were rather nondescript dirty composition tile, the furniture inoffensive, solid style, mainly rexine. There was one notice telling customers that passing of betting slips was forbidden, another saying that gambling was forbidden. There was one charity box for playing fields with a little picture of children playing in the streets. and a caption "keep them off the streets". Most of the men were in groups, only one or two were by themselves. Most of the men were above thirty but researcher talks to a younger man who says he won't find many younger men in on a Thursday night. The man works at Duncan's chocolate factory where the wages are not good at first and it can get terribly hot in some of the rooms, up to 100 degrees. Most of the workforce there come over in coaches from Fife. He thinks young people are getting married younger now at seventeen or eighteen. Researcher notices a large group of teenagers outside the fish shop when leaves at 9pm. He thinks the pub is too large to be a homely meeting place.

Dates

  • Other: 8 June 1961

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