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Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh Live
National
Iona Young

Edinburgh's most 'uninviting pub' with only one window where customers brawled daily

Edinburgh has seen many fondly-recalled pubs vanish down the years, but it's fair to say that some of these lost boozers definitely weren't for the faint of heart.

One infamous bar was the Clock Inn on Dalry Road. Run by publican Davie Hutchinson, the near-windowless watering hole would be bouncing on match days with rowdy Hearts fans and casuals packing out the pub before games at nearby Tynecastle.

Renowned for its tense atmosphere, the flat-roofed boozer was a far cry from the more family-friendly establishments we see today. With just one small window at the front and an almost total lack of ventilation, the uninviting pub very quickly filled up with cigarette and pipe smoke back in the days before the smoking ban came into effect.

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