Tagged heritage

Stoker's plaque will unveiled at the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel at Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire, where Stoker stayed in 1895 while writing the early chapters of his Gothic horror masterpiece. The plaque is the 57th...

With plenty of whisky, real ale drawn from real taps and not a hipster beard in sight, here a few of the best traditional pubs in Edinburgh . . . Bennets Bar (8 Leven Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9LG)...

As iconic as whisky and as famous as haggis, Scotland's other national drink, Irn-Bru, is widely enjoyed not just in the land of its birth but also across the globe. Synonymous with Scottish culture, most...

A new year means one thing for many people - standing on the scales, wishing the number revealed was a few pounds (or stone) lighter, and then embarking on the latest fad diet (only to be back on the beer and...

Lying at the heart of many a Scottish community, the local pub was often a lodestone for communication and revelry and its no wonder that so many have survived throughout the centuries to remain a tangible...

With over 700 pubs in the city alone there are names ranging from the exotic to the (seemingly) obvious, the stories behind these names are often as fascinating as the tales told by the staff manning their...

So, what's in a name? Quite a lot if Glasgow's historic pubs are anything to go by, with names ranging from the exotic to the (seemingly) obvious, the stories behind them are often as fascinating as the...

The seventy-year-old Glenlivet 1943, which is due to be unveiled by Gordon & MacPhail, commemorates a key date in wartime history. Distilled on January 14 1943, as Prime Minister Winston Churchill met...

Today, Edinburgh's residents will be more familiar with the sight of - or at least the smell of - the city's last great surviving whisky distillery - North British Grain Distillery - and the ever popular...

Robert P. Pattison and Walter G.G. Pattison - two names that will forever live in infamy in Scotch whisky circles. The brothers, who were the catalyst for the collapse of the Scotch industry in the early...