Few Edinburgh publicans have treated their paying customers quite so harshly as Willie Ross, proprietor of the Oxford Bar for 40 years after the Second World War.
A curmudgeon of epic proportions, Willie Ross ran the Young Street pub - which is famously a favourite of Ian Rankin and his fictional detective John Rebus - with an iron fist and imposed a hefty list of insanely strict rules, many of which simply wouldn't fly today.
Dogs and women were treated the same by Willie, as none were allowed near his bar. Ladies were sent through to the upstairs room, while dogs were banned outright after 1962 after one weed under a table.
