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Sandy Bell's as a folk music pub; 'The Myrtle and the Ivy'.

Date 21 October 1986
Track ID 84430
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1986.157

Original Tape ID

SA1986.157

Summary

Sandy Bell's as a folk music pub; 'The Myrtle and the Ivy'.

Sandy Bell's was active as a folk music pub in the late 1950s and 1960s, but the contributors didn't go there. Anecdote about Stuart MacGregor's stag night, when a man lost his false teeth at a party in Hamish Henderson's flat. Hamish wrote 'Sandy Bell's Man' around 1958. The people who went to the Howff didn't go to Bell's. There was coffee at half time and the drinkers went to Deacon Brodie's. Talk of Stuart MacGregor's book 'The Myrtle and the Ivy', which features Edinburgh locations and characters thinly disguised, including Johnny the Basket-maker and Hamish Henderson.

Item Subject/Person

MacGregor, Stuart; Henderson, Hamish

Recording Location

County - Midlothian

Parish - Edinburgh

Village/Place - Edinburgh

Item Location

County - Midlothian

Parish - Edinburgh

Village/Place - Edinburgh

Language

English

Genre

Information

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good