h2_the_foodie ([info]h2_the_foodie) wrote in [info]edinburgers,
2007-04-29 19:47:00
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The End of an Institution

Teviot Middle Bar has its last night of normal business tonight.

It will then be open on Sundays only, for the quiz.

It will close forever on the Sunday of Freshers' week 2007.

(I believe those last two lines are correct. Please correct me if I am wrong.)

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[info]whiskeylover

April 29 2007, 19:19:37 UTC 5 years ago

Really? Crumbs. I spent most of my time as a student there. What's happening to it?

[info]h2_the_foodie

April 29 2007, 19:31:19 UTC 5 years ago

well, i'm a bit out of the loop because i'm no longer a student myself, but I believe it is being turned into a study space.

[info]whiskeylover

April 29 2007, 19:34:11 UTC 5 years ago

Oh dear. Just googled it, and apparently it is indeed being turned into a "relaxed studying area", with the library being converted into a new "traditional style pub".

Hmm

I suspect I should pop along to Edinburgh again at some point & make use of my EUSA life membership & have a pint or two in the new place

[info]h2_the_foodie

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[info]gnomatron

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[info]markadm

April 29 2007, 20:24:09 UTC 5 years ago

Bah; what a damn shame. I always loved it there. :(

[info]cmlc

April 29 2007, 20:25:12 UTC 5 years ago

What a shame for the library too :-( It was such a lovely old place.

[info]wyrdo

April 29 2007, 21:02:05 UTC 5 years ago

That's so strange. It's (should be) a very successful bar!

[info]cheekbones3

April 29 2007, 21:25:21 UTC 5 years ago

Another sacrifice to the white elephant that is Potterrow? Ah, Teviot has never been the same since Fridays got demoted from first choice cheap booze venue to just some union bar where you can escape from the club-based throng of the other place. Shame, cos Teviot was ideal for mixing up club nights and a standard pub night. Bloody committee no doubt... :p

[info]zootm

April 29 2007, 22:10:00 UTC 5 years ago

A comment above says that the library in Teviot is to be converted into a bar; I think that that'd just mean less stairs to climb, so not [i]quite[/i] as much of a tragedy as it could've been.

[info]cheekbones3

April 29 2007, 22:34:37 UTC 5 years ago

Aye true, but will those busy Teviot Fridays ever be recaptured? I'd be very surprised!

[info]zootm

April 29 2007, 22:36:26 UTC 5 years ago

We can but hope. Club culture seems to be killing everything else, it's a shame.

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[info]gnomatron

April 30 2007, 18:47:29 UTC 5 years ago

Probably not any time soon. Students seem much more interested in getting hammered in potterrow and dancing to cheese these days.

[info]gnomatron

April 30 2007, 18:45:54 UTC 5 years ago

hmm, not quite - 2000 students a weekend in potterrow these days, nowhere near that many in Teviot. Potterrow does pretty well these days, Teviot ticks over but the quality of the bars surrounding it has improved massively in the last few years - look at Oddfellows; it was opened in direct competition to Teviot. It's not quite my cup of tea, but it's the sort of bar that's popular with students these days.

[info]cheekbones3

May 1 2007, 15:45:18 UTC 5 years ago

Aye, the landscape's changed I suppose. 'Tis a shame.

[info]skx

April 29 2007, 22:17:20 UTC 5 years ago

The real end of an institution was when the Chambers St union closed; kids today!

[info]h2_the_foodie

April 29 2007, 22:49:47 UTC 5 years ago

gosh! what was that like? Which building was it in?

My mum was in a girls halls of residence in the West End (just past St Stephen Street) where you shared a room and had to bring your own teatowel. We still have the one that her room mate (and later flatmate, when they moved to Marchmont Road and a proper flat) had brought with her in first year. She started 1971, I think.

[info]surliminal

April 29 2007, 22:57:38 UTC 5 years ago

OMG. Chambers St also used to have ye lamented and unreplaced staff club.. ah those were the days .. it's the place you go to get parking permits now..

[info]cheekbones3

May 1 2007, 16:02:00 UTC 5 years ago

Next door, I think :o)

[info]cheekbones3

May 1 2007, 16:04:05 UTC 5 years ago

It was the building on the corner where the steps go down to Guthrie Street. Had a funny layout inside, one smallish room upstairs and a few pin tables, and stairs down into the basement to the main bar area, which was pretty spacious. There must have been other bits, but it closed before I had chance to explore too much.

[info]irnbru_man

April 30 2007, 01:14:06 UTC 5 years ago

Ah freshers week in Chamber Street. I think I saw a hypnotist or magician there. I also remember it closing, something about the building being un safe and would need major money to make it safe.

[info]red_devil_diva

May 1 2007, 20:09:21 UTC 5 years ago

That was a real travesty - sob!!

[info]verdandiweaves

April 30 2007, 07:40:39 UTC 5 years ago

Oh what a shame for the library and for middle bar :(

[info]gregorioandrea

April 30 2007, 10:34:53 UTC 5 years ago

The Teviot was the absolute business. Beer, crisps, arcade machines and snooker at rock-bottom prices. What else could you want? And the camber on the snooker tables added a real element of chance to the whole thing.

[info]gnomatron

April 30 2007, 18:48:58 UTC 5 years ago

all of that's still there. just the bar's changed.

[info]cheekbones3

May 1 2007, 16:04:44 UTC 5 years ago

The snooker disappeared quite a while ago didn't it?

[info]gnomatron

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[info]monktus

April 30 2007, 13:58:09 UTC 5 years ago

A sad day.
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