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Try a pub crawl in Rose Street next ...... its said no one has ever completed the pub crawl having a drink in ..... every .... pub . That's my challenge to you ....
A petrol bomb was thrown into a pub in Coatbridge ( Scotland ) in the 1970s and it was drank before it hit the ground… don’t talk to me about rough pubs !
Lived in Leith moons ago. They are not rough pubs they are just pubs. I would say Edinburghs roughest pubs are in places outside the city centre like in Pilton / Niddrie / Sighthill. The city pubs are fine.
No pubs in Niddrie anymore, the cleekim and whitehouse are long gone (whitehouse is a cafe/art centre/community hub and the cleekim is now a farm foods), jewel miners is still there mind you
@@anyexpat a big chunk of it has been rebuilt over last 10-15 years but aye it's still not the best, I live in Magdalene, not much better to look at but x10 more quiet and almost no trouble these days
The Dodger is a good pub in Sighthill. Shame The Gauntlet closed down. The Silver Wing is decent enough. The Ferry Boat, down Muirhouse, is a great boozer, full of characters.
jsut come across your channel got to say well done on the advertisement absolutely 10/10 effort gone into that hats off to you mates only person i see making effort with it and your videos also 10/10 keep it up matey all the best
The marksman was the sort of pubs we were all hoping you’d encounter on the estates 🏡,however it’s the first real pub that shown bad attitude 😅 good video this one 👍
In the central, the dockers used to come in before a shift and have a few beers and a punch up, in another corner, a gogo dancer was being assaulted by an alsation with the crowd egging the thing on! Happy Days
Fair play visiting those pubs, especially during an England match. The times I've been to Leith recently it's clear that it's still rough around the edges despite the regeneration.
Absolutely not true. I've lived all over the place, Scotland and England and Northern Ireland and bar staff are always friendly (whether sincerely or not) because that's their job. English in Scotland get the hardest time because so many Scots have a bag of chips on their shoulder towards them-they'd rather have an illegal immigrant in Scotland than an English person. THAT is how bitter some Scots are. English people, like Northern Irish tend to be morecaccept8ng of people-that's my experience, anyway, and I've been from one end of this country to the other.
@@patsanters2741 I don't agree, honestly as a scottish person I feel the opposite. Apart from the stereotyping/piss-taking I find the English (particularly women) more than welcoming and genuinely quite curious towards scottish people. Scotland is full to the brim with English residents so I can understand that visitors from England might not feel quite so welcome; familiarity breeds contempt after all.
Lol. As an Edinburgher born and bred, Leith is tamer than Morningside these days! 👍🤣Just for the record, where was the dude ‘confronted’? Click bait? 🤔
@@pbyl138Oh, c’mon, dude. Does that tame exchange warrant the click bait title? Really? You must’ve led a sheltered life if that’s the case, petal. I stand with my original assessment: click bait!
The bar that chucked you out - they've missed out on a bit of free promotion for themselves, their loss though! Maybe they had something to hide. Also - best ad yet!
Ha! The marksman has always been dodgy, and the Central had its moments too over the years. The spoons ive had to walk over folk od'n the doorway to get in on more than one occasion. That was weekday late afternoons for an after work pint.
The phrases “mooch around” and “see what’s kicking off” are now part of my vocabulary, even if I’m just explaining to my wife that I’m going to Sainsbury’s
Im from Manchester but always enjoy a weekend in Edinburgh when I go up there to visit family. Leith is a cool place to visit as you have a mix of different people from all socio economic backgrounds, whereas anywhere near the centre of Edinburgh is now extremely expensive.
Leith is noting compared to what it was. The smoking van in pubs killed many of them off literally within a year of being implemented. Most people living there now aren't Leithers, and A LOT aren't even British. The pubs are wank, with too many studen-types or rich people. Gone are the days when ladies of a certain industry walked the streets. I worked (in the docks) and lived there from 1995 to 2018 and saw a HUGE change in that time, little for the better but mostly for the worse.
@@NathanielGarro-ru7du all the ladies of the night worked coburg st and got nailed in the carparks of the nearby little industrial estate lol i used to see them standing about when i was shooting down that way in my black cab . Then they got the boot and they moved to salamader st near the sewage works and crematorium
They also., for a time, about 10-15 years ago, hung around at Leith Links and threw used condoms into trees where they hung like jelly decorations from the branches. The residents formed a committee and got them moved on because they were taking punters up people's alleyways and doing them there- those residents being posh and well-to-do so able to pull those strings.
@@NathanielGarro-ru7du when the nato fleet came to edin in 98 i worked for business post and at weekends drove for radio cabs remember them 😎 there was hookers from glasgow came to edin lol on the mon i went to a wee unit to deliver a package ! Fuck me theres was jonnys everywhere and the lab dog lying at the door that used to come and greet me had them stuck to his coat ! He had been sleeping in them 🤮
Used to love drinking Guinness in pubs years ago getting to old to deal with the hangovers so just drink pepsi and play darts when in pubs hard to find dart boards in pubs now with a lot of them shutting down hope to meet the legend lad mr honest places wish i had a mate like you you seem a good lad got rid of my mates because they were just using me as a cash machine always asking me for money like i was a loan bank
dave but life is what it is ? isent it ? yeah so it is what it is and it was wat it was ? wasent it dave is it dave is it what it is dave or was it like it was back in the day ? you tell mw dave i dont have a f------g scoobie to be honest im not the brightest ah well it is what it is i suppose ? or is it dave ?
You walked past the vine bar at 8:05, that's also a real delightful shithole, I was offered a bartender job in the central bar a while back and the manager said it would be good to have someone my size to help throw out anyone fighting, I was like "yeah nah, not for minimum wage ffs"🤣😂🤣. Edinburgh has a lot of good things going for it though unlike a lot of other large cities in the UK. Enjoying your videos mate, keep them coming. Is this your full time job now or do you also work?
Lived in a few places down the Walk. Started off in a flat on Duke St where we didn’t have a telly but who cared… we could see the back of the then Scotmid car park where the CCS would sometimes gather in preparation for welcoming the away team to Edinburgh!!! Better than watching the actual game!!!
‘It is what it is!’ has to go on some merch, Champ! Enjoying watching these from my bed with man flu, I don’t go far now for a beer, I’ve got a great local and can’t be arsed 😂, so you’re reminding me when me n my pals would. Safe journeys.
I was on an army course in Penicuik circa 1989, and on the Saturday morning (day off) we were dropped off in Leith at 7am. We went into a pub for breakfast and a free Heineken. The day carried on from there!!!
Well well well. Twenty years almost exactly after leaving those exact same bars and streets behind.. my flat was in Great Junction Street.. for a life abroad.. It’s not changed, but very quiet.
That took me back. I remember Wilkie's when it was Whitson's! Funny thing is, I was at Bonnington Primary school with Tam who was outside Wilkie's, not seen him in years. GGTTH!!
The Marksman has 4.2/5 stars on Google Reviews but tells our guy to sod off. Probably hating on the English that day thanks to Bellingham's late leveller 🏴
I lived in leith in 2003 and it was very rough. My friend and I were set upon by some thugs on our way to a party. My friend was left blind in one eye from the glass in his spectacles breaking into his eye. Then he left the uk and went back to Poland due to it. I also left Scotland at that point and moved to Wales. In Wales the people were friendlier and there was much less violence and drugs than in Scotland.
As the song goes "Sunset over Leith". Glad you never met any of the "wee raj schemies" that used to be around in the 80s. You should get a pint of Heavy at the "Athletic Arms" aka "The Diggers". Would be a cultural highlight.
Its a pity there's Copyright infringement rules for background music on youtube, but some of those pubs were playing awesome songs! What a cool city! Would love to visit someday. Your videos always make me want to go and explore the British Isles. Keep it up mate!
The personality of the protagonist makes these video`s essential viewing and adds to the interest, I really look forward to new content, Keep up the good work squire....
These aren’t Edinburgh’s roughest pubs. Most of the notorious Leith pubs have been knocked down. Still a few rough ones in Granton/Pilton but nothing like the Gunner used to be
Imagine thinking it is getting worse because" it is getting gentrified" ie - some money is coming into the area , as opposed to the reality that thousands of recent arrivals are burdening all services.
I was a Field Service engineer on Gaming machines and Juke boxes, worked in every pub in Edinburgh and never a problem, mainly becasue I was a licenced engineer , but you never visited any of the the five trouble pubs in Leith Even I felt a bit threatend though protected by my licence to work and the owner
Really enjoy your station here in the USA. The neighborhood tours culminating in dive pubs is extremely interesting. It's real life...keep up the cool work!
Stayed there about 20 years ago while working in Edinburgh. The B&B was owned by a guy and he had his mate working for him. We would go down to breakfast and they were all prepped with the food and on the whisky alreay. We'd then get back about 5 or 6pm and the guys were pissed af! 😂😂😂 Really good, clean digs and really good breakfast. 👍👍👍
Yip another repetitive saying that gits on my Fekin nerves. Try the Gunners pub if it's still going (muirhouse) it WAS the hardest pub in town or was it in (Pennywell)
I worked in Leith in the 80s and 90s for a reach out charity, It was rough but that's how things were,drugs,aids, prostitutes, unemployed but we still went to most of the pubs ..Mo Problem.
Leith was a no-go zone for outsiders up until about 10/12 years ago - especially for English tourists I’m afraid to say. It’s positively gentrified now, hope you enjoyed your visit!
The marksman was only done up after a Wetherspoons opened next to it. They paid for the refurb of it because they didn’t want people put off the Wetherspoons. None of these pubs are actually that rough, try Tranent or Prestonpans
@NCOYS take a look at Tranent high street, count how many CCTV Cameras there are. There’s a reason for that! One of my friends got threatened on the high street pushing her son in his pram in the daytime.
The Iona Bar is good and The Vine along at Junction Street. Most people in Leith are either sipping champagne or drinking oatmilk-mocha-lattes but some character pubs still around. The Tavern near the foot of the walk is probably worth a visit.
Not sure the Marksman is the roughest, but certainly up there! I love Leith, right good mix of people. A comedian once said, Leith Walk is the evolution of man, from the Marksman to the more gentrifed pubs up the top of the walk.
That old Scottish guy must have recommended the Marksman cos he was angry that England had won and saw it as his chance to get his own back on an Englishman. Tbh I was up in Edinburgh back in March and some of the folk I talked to were really warm except none of them were Scottish. So much diversity there that one was Australian, a few were American. And they were very affable and warm. But I can't make a fair comment on the Scots since I never really crossed paths with any. I get the feeling that if you get on their good side, they'll treat you like family. Get on their bad side and they'll throw you to the dogs. No half measures. Not something I'm a fan of, I prefer some balance
@@BlowinFree You tell me to bolt my rocket when Scotland cannot even bolt a football to the back of football net. Some warriors. If you had that much man in you such easy practical tasks wouldn't be so beyond ya
@@cultfiction3865You didn't cross paths with any Scottish people while in Edinburgh? Are you sure you were actually in Edinburgh mate? Or did you just ignore all the Scottish people?
well that was a close call, my brother and me were in leigh about 35years ago, only briefly. Only went to visit an uillean pipe player. so didnt get to see the rough pubs.
Back@Kieran , Ive bought many an English guy a pint and never wanted back , although wasnt ever offered back are i found a right tight fisted lot in England and why im happy to be back in Scotland staying .. Prices in Scotland are much dearer though , id grudge paying £4 plus a pint , they are much cheaper in England for drink likes though depends what part of England your in as London for instance id never go as never liked there many yrs ago so unfriendly . As for Leith much has changed . But fishing in Scotland also i missed another reason why i came back to stay in Scotland . But prices in Scotland for drink are over the top these days since they also through Snp stopped happy hrs in Scotland nd put prices of alcohol up in Scotland regards health reasons supposedly
If an Englishman offers myself a beer in a bar then im tking it and then ill dance the Highland fling ill dance the Highland fling as its not often an English person shall buy a drink for a Bonnie Scotsman . But the other way around Scots do buy odd drinks to English people why is that u may think . Well us Scots are a better people as simple as and sure u enjoyed your free pint bought you from a Scot also . Were used to being kind hearted people in Scotland . but in England opposite shy away not as friendly or open and very sly way you go about things in England . But if ever next time im in England and receive a beer ill come back onto tell you about it ok..But i wouldnt hng my hat on such 😁
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Try a pub crawl in Rose Street next ...... its said no one has ever completed the pub crawl having a drink in ..... every .... pub . That's my challenge to you ....
Trainspotting was set in Leith
Ha. Think you dropped your arse pal. Is that mission accomplished now? You can cut the poverty porn out now?
A petrol bomb was thrown into a pub in Coatbridge ( Scotland ) in the 1970s and it was drank before it hit the ground… don’t talk to me about rough pubs !
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Spot on mate
Just loving this. And I have to say, it's about the first time I haven't minded watching ads. They're really funny man. Keep it up.
Cheers pal, really appreciate it 👍
Congratulations! This channel is going from strength to strength. It’s becoming a must watch for me.
🤣🤣 cheers pal. Really appreciate it
@@honestplacesto be fair I've been in The Marksman bar plenty and they probably figured you for a baldy nonce
The pub where the guy got shot on New Year's was actually the Anchor Inn in Granton, not the Marksman. Still a dump though
Yeah some asshole giving wrong information about the pub shooting.
Nah there was a shooting in the 80's in Constitution Street, cant remember the pubs name
Thanks for visiting foxs glad you came back again (barman)
Fkn brill of you to buy him a beer mate!! I love Scotland.. and with a McG surname I bloody well should!
If I'm ever in Edinburgh I'll be popping in!
@@JonnyMack33 your welcome anytime mate
Edinburgh is pretty much England anyway.
Great ad for the pub. I'd say loads of Danny's viewers will head in for a pint if they're nearby after seeing how bangin the pub was.
What a great guy that barman was, I'd visit just for the knowledge of that
Lived in Leith moons ago. They are not rough pubs they are just pubs. I would say Edinburghs roughest pubs are in places outside the city centre like in Pilton / Niddrie / Sighthill. The city pubs are fine.
The Guantlet
No pubs in Niddrie anymore, the cleekim and whitehouse are long gone (whitehouse is a cafe/art centre/community hub and the cleekim is now a farm foods), jewel miners is still there mind you
@@svengalisounds4471 Drove through Niddrie recently, got to say it looks different but its still grim
@@anyexpat a big chunk of it has been rebuilt over last 10-15 years but aye it's still not the best, I live in Magdalene, not much better to look at but x10 more quiet and almost no trouble these days
The Dodger is a good pub in Sighthill. Shame The Gauntlet closed down. The Silver Wing is decent enough. The Ferry Boat, down Muirhouse, is a great boozer, full of characters.
Drank in a pub in Leith 40 years ago and I was the only one in there without a razor scar on my face, the locals were sound though and had no bother.
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They must have all been bottled at some point 😆
@@animal79thecat in A&E now
What pub
@@scottparker1099 No idea what it was called, it was back in 1984, it was a Hibs firm pub.
Go back there wearing a Hearts top and see how the locals react.
Don't ever do this, coming from a hibby I promise you'd be lucky to leave with your legs intact😂😂
"You want some Charlie" 😂😂 legend old boy
I thought he said are you worried about Charlie 😂
@@MrSimonson 🤣 This guy should be on the Edinburgh tourist board, he'll hook you up to the closest dealer 🤣
He wasn't selling it, he was referring to the Marksman being full of it
@@RollrightKnights I know, he was gonna source some for him. Like I say, Legend.
@changebegins6891 didn't come across like that to me, he was simply responding to someone saying the Marksman 'if you want Charlie'
I had a whisky every time you said “it is what it is”, now I’m an alcoholic 🥃😰
Yeah ha i noticed he is alwayssayinthat haha
@@ashleydixon8671 It's really quite annoying, isn't it?
Well, it is what it is.
jsut come across your channel got to say well done on the advertisement absolutely 10/10 effort gone into that hats off to you mates only person i see making effort with it and your videos also 10/10 keep it up matey all the best
Definately becoming my favourite channel on TH-cam, awesome video mate!
Cheers pal, really appreciate it 👍
The marksman was the sort of pubs we were all hoping you’d encounter on the estates 🏡,however it’s the first real pub that shown bad attitude 😅 good video this one 👍
It's like Arkwright's shop, worked on the trams when they were doing the graft and had many a pre work pint 🤣
In the central, the dockers used to come in before a shift and have a few beers and a punch up, in another corner, a gogo dancer was being assaulted by an alsation with the crowd egging the thing on! Happy Days
Sexually assaulted? 😮
Fair play visiting those pubs, especially during an England match. The times I've been to Leith recently it's clear that it's still rough around the edges despite the regeneration.
Gentrification, not regeneration mate
I visited Edinburgh a few years ago, and it was such a beautiful place! And the people were incredibly welcoming. Good people!
Absolutely not true. I've lived all over the place, Scotland and England and Northern Ireland and bar staff are always friendly (whether sincerely or not) because that's their job. English in Scotland get the hardest time because so many Scots have a bag of chips on their shoulder towards them-they'd rather have an illegal immigrant in Scotland than an English person. THAT is how bitter some Scots are. English people, like Northern Irish tend to be morecaccept8ng of people-that's my experience, anyway, and I've been from one end of this country to the other.
@@patsanters2741 I don't agree, honestly as a scottish person I feel the opposite. Apart from the stereotyping/piss-taking I find the English (particularly women) more than welcoming and genuinely quite curious towards scottish people.
Scotland is full to the brim with English residents so I can understand that visitors from England might not feel quite so welcome; familiarity breeds contempt after all.
@@lordracula2461 English people are more likely to bring up the fact you are scottish than the other way around. That is just a fact.
@@rhize797 That's just what happens when you're exotic/foreign, people will ask questions or have a joke with you. I am comfortable with that.
@@lordracula2461 Yeah exotic. Good one mate zzzzzzzzz
Thanks!
Cheers pal. Really appreciate 👍🍺🍺🍺
Lol. As an Edinburgher born and bred, Leith is tamer than Morningside these days! 👍🤣Just for the record, where was the dude ‘confronted’? Click bait? 🤔
8:54 not really confronting but just a lad starting shit
@@pbyl138Oh, c’mon, dude. Does that tame exchange warrant the click bait title? Really? You must’ve led a sheltered life if that’s the case, petal. I stand with my original assessment: click bait!
@@titteryenot4524 must be your first time on TH-cam 😂
@@pbyl138 Huh? Is that all you’ve got? 🤦♂️
is the canny man still open? Used to live up the road, they didnt like students at the time
The bar that chucked you out - they've missed out on a bit of free promotion for themselves, their loss though! Maybe they had something to hide. Also - best ad yet!
Deffo pal! 100%. Nice one 🤣
Yeah, seemed very unfriendly for some odd reason. I’ve been in all sorts of pubs in Scotland, never had any bother as a single bloke.
Or maybe the punters just wanted a pint without this teapot wondering in and objectifying them eh.
@@Cousinreeek you think? this is or should be a standard reaction to someone sticking a camera in your face for self promotion and financial gain
The fkn Marksman aren't looking for any free promo you dafty 😂😂😂
Ha! The marksman has always been dodgy, and the Central had its moments too over the years. The spoons ive had to walk over folk od'n the doorway to get in on more than one occasion. That was weekday late afternoons for an after work pint.
This was weekday too 🤣
I never skip the ads when you do them - great stuff!
Really appreciate that 👍
I lived in Leith for a few years, and everyone there knew to avoid The Marksman. Hell on earth. The nice pubs in Leith are all down by the waterfront.
Leith is becoming too gentrified. Hardly a sense of community these days
@@mikeyp0131 the problem is islam not 'gentrification'
The Central Bar looks beautiful!
Ol steve marsh recommends it too, looks like a tidy bar
The phrases “mooch around” and “see what’s kicking off” are now part of my vocabulary, even if I’m just explaining to my wife that I’m going to Sainsbury’s
Im from Manchester but always enjoy a weekend in Edinburgh when I go up there to visit family. Leith is a cool place to visit as you have a mix of different people from all socio economic backgrounds, whereas anywhere near the centre of Edinburgh is now extremely expensive.
Manchester 🐝 invaded!
Center of Edinburgh is a circus now, lived here all my life.
I worked in the Central for 4 - 5 years about 20-25 years ago. I used to quite like the Marksman too. Many old pals were local there.
Leith is noting compared to what it was. The smoking van in pubs killed many of them off literally within a year of being implemented. Most people living there now aren't Leithers, and A LOT aren't even British. The pubs are wank, with too many studen-types or rich people. Gone are the days when ladies of a certain industry walked the streets. I worked (in the docks) and lived there from 1995 to 2018 and saw a HUGE change in that time, little for the better but mostly for the worse.
@@NathanielGarro-ru7du all the ladies of the night worked coburg st and got nailed in the carparks of the nearby little industrial estate lol i used to see them standing about when i was shooting down that way in my black cab . Then they got the boot and they moved to salamader st near the sewage works and crematorium
They also., for a time, about 10-15 years ago, hung around at Leith Links and threw used condoms into trees where they hung like jelly decorations from the branches. The residents formed a committee and got them moved on because they were taking punters up people's alleyways and doing them there- those residents being posh and well-to-do so able to pull those strings.
@@NathanielGarro-ru7du when the nato fleet came to edin in 98 i worked for business post and at weekends drove for radio cabs remember them 😎 there was hookers from glasgow came to edin lol on the mon i went to a wee unit to deliver a package ! Fuck me theres was jonnys everywhere and the lab dog lying at the door that used to come and greet me had them stuck to his coat ! He had been sleeping in them 🤮
Used to love drinking Guinness in pubs years ago getting to old to deal with the hangovers so just drink pepsi and play darts when in pubs hard to find dart boards in pubs now with a lot of them shutting down hope to meet the legend lad mr honest places wish i had a mate like you you seem a good lad got rid of my mates because they were just using me as a cash machine always asking me for money like i was a loan bank
Underrated channel mate, Aberdeen Perth, and Dundee next!
Cheers pal, appreciate it. Deffo morr scotland vids
@@honestplaces Come to Glasgow if you want to see it "kicking off". lol
Stop saying "it is what it is " cringe every time 😂
dave but life is what it is ? isent it ? yeah so it is what it is and it was wat it was ? wasent it dave is it dave is it what it is dave or was it like it was back in the day ? you tell mw dave i dont have a f------g scoobie to be honest im not the brightest ah well it is what it is i suppose ? or is it dave ?
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You walked past the vine bar at 8:05, that's also a real delightful shithole, I was offered a bartender job in the central bar a while back and the manager said it would be good to have someone my size to help throw out anyone fighting, I was like "yeah nah, not for minimum wage ffs"🤣😂🤣. Edinburgh has a lot of good things going for it though unlike a lot of other large cities in the UK. Enjoying your videos mate, keep them coming. Is this your full time job now or do you also work?
🤣🤣🤣 deffo would of been interesting working there
Not yet pal
Lived in a few places down the Walk. Started off in a flat on Duke St where we didn’t have a telly but who cared… we could see the back of the then Scotmid car park where the CCS would sometimes gather in preparation for welcoming the away team to Edinburgh!!! Better than watching the actual game!!!
The holy grail advert was the best yt advert cod product hing av ever seen 🤣 if creators spent more time on sponsors i would watch them too 😂
‘It is what it is!’ has to go on some merch, Champ!
Enjoying watching these from my bed with man flu, I don’t go far now for a beer, I’ve got a great local and can’t be arsed 😂, so you’re reminding me when me n my pals would.
Safe journeys.
The advertising is brilliant love it 😸
Funny as fuck !😂
@@Frank-qs3pe for a moment i thought it was the Lone Ranger and Tonto
I was on an army course in Penicuik circa 1989, and on the Saturday morning (day off) we were dropped off in Leith at 7am.
We went into a pub for breakfast and a free Heineken.
The day carried on from there!!!
Well well well. Twenty years almost exactly after leaving those exact same bars and streets behind.. my flat was in Great Junction Street.. for a life abroad.. It’s not changed, but very quiet.
That took me back. I remember Wilkie's when it was Whitson's! Funny thing is, I was at Bonnington Primary school with Tam who was outside Wilkie's, not seen him in years. GGTTH!!
Leath is that where train spotting was set ?
Leith
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Great stuff, you never fail to entertain me, adverts are hilarious 😂 🖖
Brilliant video again fella 🍻
Cheers pal 👍
09:40 - the shooting wasn't even in Leith. It was outside the Anchor Inn on West Granton Road.
The Marksman has 4.2/5 stars on Google Reviews but tells our guy to sod off. Probably hating on the English that day thanks to Bellingham's late leveller 🏴
Probs 🤣🤣🤣
They tell other Scots to piss off too, especially Glaswegians. East coast bams.
I live around the corner, can confirm they hate on the English and anyone with a full set of teeth every day
as if the english don't hate on us when we go to their country 🤣🤣🤣@@gravyboat89
the first ad i actually enjoyed to watch.
Really appreciate that pal 👍
Take yourself to the Laurieston Bar in Glasgow. Best Guinness in Scotland and 3 different Guinness taps.
This is your best ever video mate, talking to the locals is great.
The Marksman was definitely a bit sketchy 😮 Fair play to you for giving it a go.
Deffo avoid it
Just started to watch your videos. Nice to see the bar crowds from across the pond as they say. Be careful on the amount of alcohol consumed. Cheers!
Can't believe you didn't go into Tam O'Shanter's or the Spey Lounge! Marksman's quality though! 😂
The 2 most rotten pubs in Leith, with some stiff competition. 😂
I love the effort you went to not show that you clearly sxxt it when faced with the Tam O' Shanter which you passed twice! 😂
I lived in leith in 2003 and it was very rough. My friend and I were set upon by some thugs on our way to a party. My friend was left blind in one eye from the glass in his spectacles breaking into his eye. Then he left the uk and went back to Poland due to it. I also left Scotland at that point and moved to Wales. In Wales the people were friendlier and there was much less violence and drugs than in Scotland.
As the song goes "Sunset over Leith". Glad you never met any of the "wee raj schemies" that used to be around in the 80s.
You should get a pint of Heavy at the "Athletic Arms" aka "The Diggers". Would be a cultural highlight.
You were a marked man in the Marksman……🤜!
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Trainspotting Land. Glad You never met Frances Begbie…
The marksman is a lot nicer than it used to be -the Spey is awful
@@lextalonis839 Many of them there in Edinburghs Leith district fir sure . No messing Get tae fk .
It is what it isn’t!
Its a pity there's Copyright infringement rules for background music on youtube, but some of those pubs were playing awesome songs!
What a cool city! Would love to visit someday. Your videos always make me want to go and explore the British Isles. Keep it up mate!
The personality of the protagonist makes these video`s essential viewing and adds to the interest, I really look forward to new content, Keep up the good work squire....
Another good on 👍🤙💙 your sponsor ads quality is amazing 😂😂😂
Cheers pal 🍻
Edinburgh looks class!
I’m English but had many good times in Edinburgh. Lots of good boozers.
These aren’t Edinburgh’s roughest pubs. Most of the notorious Leith pubs have been knocked down. Still a few rough ones in Granton/Pilton but nothing like the Gunner used to be
there arent any in pilton and im pretty sure only 1 or 2 in granton
Imagine thinking it is getting worse because" it is getting gentrified" ie - some money is coming into the area , as opposed to the reality that thousands of recent arrivals are burdening all services.
Any plans to do Black Country/Birmingham?
This week 👍
I admire this guy’s bottle tbh
I can run fast 🤣
Bald and Bankrupt but with more boozers. Love it
@@fastandfurious3173 🤣🤣
@fastandfurious3173 except bald and bankrupt is an actual creepy pred. This guy however seems proper sound.
@@Tice-Nits 🤣i'll take that pal 👍
This channel is the best! It is what it is from Texas, man 😂
Cheers pal 👍🍺
At last, you came to Edinburgh! Walked right past my house too.
I told you before you'd love the Marksman 😂
Best pub of the bunch 🤣
@@honestplaces Hahaha, legend!
Was in Edinburgh last week on holiday from Sheffield, discovered your channel while I was there, love it mate , keep it up 👍
Theres something oddly relaxing about watching you explore random places
Appreciate that 🤣
I was a Field Service engineer on Gaming machines and Juke boxes, worked in every pub in Edinburgh and never a problem, mainly becasue I was a licenced engineer , but you never visited any of the the five trouble pubs in Leith Even I felt a bit threatend though protected by my licence to work and the owner
Really enjoy your station here in the USA. The neighborhood tours culminating in dive pubs is extremely interesting. It's real life...keep up the cool work!
Hi there. Are you going to be offering any merch?
Really enjoy your vids.
🤣🤣 not planned to!
Should go to Chatham in Kent some rough pubs there mate also Rochester high street which is round corner from Chatham 👍
Top quality again mate
Cheers pal
Still one of my favourite TH-camrs 👍🍻🍻🍻🍻
No bad vibes to the guy but the most hipster guy you could find complaining about the place being gentrified is comedy
He’s prob just finished spray painting Free Palestine on that wall
Did you do a video of Stranraer? I'm from down south but spent a few days on pub crawls round there😁😁, been back a few times.
I did pal, odd little place
Stayed there about 20 years ago while working in Edinburgh.
The B&B was owned by a guy and he had his mate working for him.
We would go down to breakfast and they were all prepped with the food and on the whisky alreay.
We'd then get back about 5 or 6pm and the guys were pissed af! 😂😂😂
Really good, clean digs and really good breakfast.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣mint thay
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Aye, stayed in one overlooking Leith Links, was called McAnair awesome
Question. Why does he say it’s a good pint in there? Why does it taste different in different pubs? It’s the same brand of beer
Hi. I have a drink every time you say, "It is what it is." I'm now a full blown alcoholic, after three of your videos. It is what it is, I suppose.
Probs be in hospital after 4 vids 🤣
Yip another repetitive saying that gits on my Fekin nerves. Try the Gunners pub if it's still going (muirhouse) it WAS the hardest pub in town or was it in (Pennywell)
I worked in Leith in the 80s and 90s for a reach out charity, It was rough but that's how things were,drugs,aids, prostitutes, unemployed but we still went to most of the pubs ..Mo Problem.
Leith was a no-go zone for outsiders up until about 10/12 years ago - especially for English tourists I’m afraid to say. It’s positively gentrified now, hope you enjoyed your visit!
No it wasn’t. I hung around leith and I’m not a Leither. Never had any problems
11:05 what a beautiful building!
The marksman was only done up after a Wetherspoons opened next to it. They paid for the refurb of it because they didn’t want people put off the Wetherspoons. None of these pubs are actually that rough, try Tranent or Prestonpans
@NCOYS take a look at Tranent high street, count how many CCTV Cameras there are. There’s a reason for that! One of my friends got threatened on the high street pushing her son in his pram in the daytime.
The Iona Bar is good and The Vine along at Junction Street. Most people in Leith are either sipping champagne or drinking oatmilk-mocha-lattes but some character pubs still around. The Tavern near the foot of the walk is probably worth a visit.
Spot on there mate
as a huge indiana jones fan, the ad was great 🤣💪🏼
Try the grapes in the southside
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Ohh jeez! That's a right pint and punch-up there! 😂
He should've just gone to Shandwicks if he wanted to see real roughness 😂
Not sure the Marksman is the roughest, but certainly up there! I love Leith, right good mix of people.
A comedian once said, Leith Walk is the evolution of man, from the Marksman to the more gentrifed pubs up the top of the walk.
That old Scottish guy must have recommended the Marksman cos he was angry that England had won and saw it as his chance to get his own back on an Englishman.
Tbh I was up in Edinburgh back in March and some of the folk I talked to were really warm except none of them were Scottish. So much diversity there that one was Australian, a few were American. And they were very affable and warm. But I can't make a fair comment on the Scots since I never really crossed paths with any.
I get the feeling that if you get on their good side, they'll treat you like family. Get on their bad side and they'll throw you to the dogs. No half measures. Not something I'm a fan of, I prefer some balance
Yeh probs true mate 🤣🤣
Bolt ya rocket
@@BlowinFreeseconds on that
@@BlowinFree You tell me to bolt my rocket when Scotland cannot even bolt a football to the back of football net. Some warriors. If you had that much man in you such easy practical tasks wouldn't be so beyond ya
@@cultfiction3865You didn't cross paths with any Scottish people while in Edinburgh? Are you sure you were actually in Edinburgh mate? Or did you just ignore all the Scottish people?
People chatting about the shooting at New year's wasn't the marksman or even in Leith. It was the anchor inn along at Granton
Those 2 on the scooters at the start looked proper rough. Definitely after the camera. 😱🤣
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Some of the pubs in Leith are rough for sure, but Leith itself is completely fine now.
Do U rate marksman’s lovely hospitality 😂
Top draw hospitality once again.
Always welcoming
I still need to know if it really is what it is or if it was what it was or if, indeed, it is what it was?
Wee bit of Charlie hhahahahahhahaha
Apparently its the west of scotland that gets all the rain
Do you want a wee bit of sniff sniff Charlie 😂😂😂😂😂😂thats my sort of boozer ❤🇬🇧🇮🇪
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well that was a close call, my brother and me were in leigh about 35years ago, only briefly. Only went to visit an uillean pipe player. so didnt get to see the rough pubs.
Should of ventured out
You should of gone to the Spey Lounge
I live in Leith and you couldnt pay me to go to the Marksman. Youre a braver man than I
Wow, I've never had the balls to walk into any of those pubs. Well done mate, you handled yourself very well and were respectful throughout. Stay safe
Aye, but he looks the part does he no? Looks the sort of dude who mugs people, not gets mugged if you see what I mean?
You started off walking along my street - broughton road. Defo not dodgy.
Free pint off a Scot you must be popular hahaha
It was of me
I got free booze when Celtic played in Sydney
Back@Kieran ,
Ive bought many an English guy a pint and never wanted back , although wasnt ever offered back are i found a right tight fisted lot in England and why im happy to be back in Scotland staying .. Prices in Scotland are much dearer though , id grudge paying £4 plus a pint , they are much cheaper in England for drink likes though depends what part of England your in as London for instance id never go as never liked there many yrs ago so unfriendly .
As for Leith much has changed . But fishing in Scotland also i missed another reason why i came back to stay in Scotland . But prices in Scotland for drink are over the top these days since they also through Snp stopped happy hrs in Scotland nd put prices of alcohol up in Scotland regards health reasons supposedly
Just so lovable 🤣
If an Englishman offers myself a beer in a bar then im tking it and then ill dance the Highland fling
ill dance the Highland fling as its not often an English person shall buy a drink for a Bonnie Scotsman .
But the other way around Scots do buy odd drinks to English people why is that u may think .
Well us Scots are a better people as simple as and sure u enjoyed your free pint bought you from a Scot also .
Were used to being kind hearted people in Scotland . but in England opposite shy away not as friendly or open and very sly way you go about things in England . But if ever next time im in England and receive a beer ill come back onto tell you about it ok..But i wouldnt hng my hat on such 😁