The Gothenburg
Fallin Public House Society Limited
Named afterThe Gothenburg system
FoundedOpened 4 November 1910 (1910-11-04)
TypeRegistered Society (395RS)[1]
HeadquartersFallin, Stirling, Scotland
Coordinates56°06′06″N 3°51′55″W / 56.10168°N 3.86529°W / 56.10168; -3.86529
ServicesPublic house, function rooms
Members
365 (2017)[1]
Revenue
160,389 (2017)[1]

The Gothenburg, or simply The Goth, is a community-run pub in the former mining village of Fallin, near Stirling, Scotland.[2][1][3]

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 gifted to community causes.[4] During miners' strikes the Goth hosted soup kitchens and supported miners' strike funds.[5] It remains as a marker of the village's mining history.[6]

The Goth has close ties to the neighbouring bowls club.[7][5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mutuals Public Register: Fallin Public House Society Limited". mutuals.fca.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 October 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  2. Mair, Craig (2010). The Gothenburg 1910 – 2010: a hundred years of history in Fallin. Fallin Public House Society Limited.
  3. Whitelaw, Graham (2 April 1999). "Cheers to the Goth". Stirling Observer. p. 14.
  4. White, Gregor (3 November 2010). "Fallin's Goth celebrates 100 years". The Daily Record. Archived from the original on 9 October 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  5. 1 2 Mair, Craig (2011). "Fallin's Gothenburg Public House and Stirling's Forgotten Swimming Pool". Forth Naturalist and Historian. University of Stirling. 34: 145–151. doi:10.5284/1047558. ISBN 978-1-898008-69-9. ISSN 0309-7560. Archived from the original on 7 October 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  6. Mills, Catherine; McIntosh, Ian (2 January 2020). "'I See the Site of the Old Colliery Every Day': Scotland's Landscape Legacies of Coal". Landscapes. 21 (1): 13–14. doi:10.1080/14662035.2020.1864095. hdl:1893/32110. ISSN 1466-2035. S2CID 233792586. Archived from the original on 10 July 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  7. 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. hdl:1893/21793. Archived from the original on 10 July 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
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