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David McLean

The legendary Edinburgh theme pub where drinkers struggled to find the toilets

It was one of Edinburgh's most unusual themed pubs, filled with weird paraphernalia, quirky-named cocktails and with quite possibly the coolest toilets in the capital - if you could manage to locate them.

Opened in 1998, the Jekyll & Hyde pub on Hanover Street was a favourite howff among the city's students and twenty-somethings for the best part of two decades.

The Gothic-style watering hole, which was part of a chain operated by the Eerie Pubs company, took several leaves out of legendary Edinburgh author Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novella the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to earn a reputation as one of the city's most memorable bar interiors.

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