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Article: Following the signs
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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The old-style pub name may be under threat from the modern
makeover, but Jim Gilchrist discovers one man hoping to halt the
trend
IN AN uncertain world, there is much to be said for the elbow-
polished counter and reflective twilight of an unpretentious, old-
fashioned pub. We're not thinking in terms of a crammed-to-the-
gunnels delirious cup-final melee here; more the kind of
establishment evoked in the Glasgow writer George Friel's novel The
Boy Who Wanted Peace - "as quiet as a church. A man could be at
peace there, with a drink in front of him and the gantry a kind of
altar."
But what happens when someone in a corporate boardroom somewhere
far away hires a style consultant whose idea ...