Thanks for the information about "The Goth."  Alasdair Anderson's book,
"The Dean Tavern: A Gothenburg Experiment" (Newtongrange: Dean Tavern
Trust, 1986), contains a quite detailed history of another Scottish
Gothenburg pub, the Dean Tavern in Newtongrange.  My forthcoming book,
Pubs and Progressives: Reinventing the Public House in England,
1896-1960, devotes a chapter to the Gothenburg movement in England.
There were two national organizations promoting the experimental
approach to running pubs: the People's Refreshment House Association,
founded in 1896, and the Central Public House Trust Association,
established in 1901.

David Gutzke
Southwest Missouri State University



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Subject: Gothenburg Scheme survivors in Scotland

I've recently come across some remarkable Gothenburg Scheme surviving
institutes in Scotland which have a good website. The Prestoungrange
Gothenburg ( locally called "The Goth") dates from 1908. It was built in
a former coal mining area of Scotland, East Lothian, not far from
Edinburgh.

The Goth has links with Goteborg, Sweden, where the Gothenburg Scheme
began. You can read about this on the website and in a pdf history
downloadable from the site. There are "Goths" also at Newtongrange and
Armadale. The web address is
www.prestoungrange.org/gothenburg/index.html

Aidan Turner-Bishop
Livesey Collection Librarian
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England