With the news that Leith Walk's Boundary Bar is to be temporarily resurrected for the upcoming new series of BBC Scotland drama Guilt, we thought it would be worthwhile to tell the rather intriguing story behind the real pub of the same name.
The Boundary Bar, which is now Bier Hoose, is being brought back from the dead to star in the new thriller starring Mark Bonnar - but not at the original location. Instead, another bar, Robbie's, which is situated just round the corner on Iona Street, will bear the name of the famous watering hole.
A mainstay for generations of Leithers, the lost capital pub was so-called as it straddled the exact boundary on Leith Walk where Edinburgh became Leith, and there was a time when drinkers took advantage of this imaginary line - or so it is often claimed.
