Old Travel Blog Photograph Whitehall Bar Dundee Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of people outside the Whitehall Bar in Dundee, Scotland. The public bar, or tap room, was where the working class were expected to congregate and drink. It had unfurnished floorboards, sometimes covered with sawdust to absorb the spitting and spillages, known as " spit and sawdust ", bare bench seats and stools. Drinks were generally lower quality beers and liquors. Public bars were seen as exclusive areas for only men; strictly enforced social etiquettes barred women from entering public bars, some pubs did not lift this rule until the 1980s.



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