Old Photograph Gothenburg Hall Kelty Fife Scotland

Old photograph of Gothenburg Hall in Kelty, Fife, Scotland. Gothenburg Public Hall was built in 1910 by the Gothenburg Temperance Society as a Cinema. The clock tower was added in 1925 as a gift to the people of Kelty from the Gothenburg society. The building was demolished in 1976. The Gothenburg or Trust Public House system originated in the 1860s in Gothenburg, Sweden in an attempt to control the consumption of spirits. In Scotland, pubs run under the Gothenburg system are often colloquially known as " Goths. " There were several Goths in the Lothians, one each in Stirlingshire and Ayrshire and, prior to 1914, more than twenty in Fife, where the system took its strongest hold. The local coal companies were often a source of funds to establish these pubs and were usually a dominant force on the boards of the trusts, with the miners themselves usually holding representation and sometimes contributing in part to the capital.



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