Sandy Bell's as a folk music pub; 'The Myrtle and the Ivy'.
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1986.157
Original Tape ID
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
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good