The Gothenburg, Fallin Explained

The Gothenburg
Named After:The Gothenburg system
Type:Registered Society (395RS)
Headquarters:Fallin, Stirling, Scotland
Founded:Opened
Full Name:Fallin Public House Society Limited
Services:Public house, function rooms
Revenue:160,389 (2017)
Members:365 (2017)

The Gothenburg, or simply The Goth, is a community-run pub in the former mining village of Fallin, near Stirling, Scotland.[1] [2]

Founded in 1910, it is one of the few remaining pubs in Scotland still run under the Gothenburg system, with at least 95% of the profits donated to community causes.[3] During miners' strikes, The Goth hosted soup kitchens and supported miners' strike funds.[4] It remains as a marker of the village's mining history.[5]

The Goth has close ties with the neighbouring bowls club.[6]

References

  1. Web site: Fallin Public House Society Limited . 2019-11-09 . Financial Conduct Authority . 10 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201010032405/https://mutuals.fca.org.uk/Search/Society/30218. live.
  2. Book: Mair, Craig . The Gothenburg 1910 – 2010: a hundred years of history in Fallin . Fallin Public House Society Limited . 2010.
    - News: Whitelaw . Graham . 1999-04-02 . Cheers to the Goth . 14 . Stirling Observer.
  3. News: White . Gregor . 2010-11-03 . Fallin's Goth celebrates 100 years . live . 2019-11-09 . . 9 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201009224804/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/fallins-goth-celebrates-100-years-2741529.
  4. Mair . Craig . 2011 . Fallin's Gothenburg Public House and Stirling's Forgotten Swimming Pool . Forth Naturalist and Historian . University of Stirling . 34 . 145–151 . 10.5284/1047558 . 978-1-898008-69-9 . 0309-7560 . 2 October 2020 . 7 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201007084344/http://www.fnh.stir.ac.uk/journal/back_issues/index.php . live.
  5. Mills . Catherine . McIntosh . Ian . 2020-01-02 . 'I See the Site of the Old Colliery Every Day': Scotland's Landscape Legacies of Coal . Landscapes . 21 . 1 . 13–14 . 10.1080/14662035.2020.1864095 . 1893/32110 . 233792586 . 1466-2035 . 30 November 2021 . 10 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220710174417/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14662035.2020.1864095 . live . free.
  6. Glen . Ian James . December 2014 . 'Community means the World to me': an ethnographic study of a public house and bowling club . PhD . University of Stirling . 1893/21793 . 9 November 2019 . 10 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220710174427/https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/handle/1893/21793 . live.

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