The Gothenburg, Fallin
Fallin Public House Society Limited | |
 The Goth in 2014 | |
| Named after | The Gothenburg system |
|---|---|
| Founded | Opened 4 November 1910 |
| Type | Registered Society (395RS)[1] |
| Headquarters | Fallin, Stirling, Scotland |
| Coordinates | 56°06′06″N 3°51′55″W / 56.10168°N 3.86529°W |
| Services | Public 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
- ^ a b c d "Mutuals Public Register: Fallin Public House Society Limited". mutuals.fca.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 October 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
- ^ Mair, Craig (2010). The Gothenburg 1910 – 2010: a hundred years of history in Fallin. Fallin Public House Society Limited.
- ^ Whitelaw, Graham (2 April 1999). "Cheers to the Goth". Stirling Observer. p. 14.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Mair, Craig (2011). "Fallin's Gothenburg Public House and Stirling's Forgotten Swimming Pool". Forth Naturalist and Historian. 34. University of Stirling: 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.