The Gothenburg, Fallin

Gothenburg pub in Fallin, Stirling, Scotland

The Gothenburg

Fallin Public House Society Limited

The Goth in 2014

Named after| The Gothenburg system
Founded| Opened 4 November 1910 (1910-11-04)
Type| Registered Society (395RS)[1]
Headquarters| Fallin, Stirling, Scotland
Coordinates| 56°06′06″N 3°51′55″W﻿ / ﻿56.10168°N 3.86529°W﻿ / 56.10168; -3.86529
Services| Public house, function rooms
Members| 365 (2017)[1]
Revenue| 160,389 (2017)[1]

The Gothenburg, or simply The Goth, is a community-run pub in the former mining village of Fallin, near Stirling, Scotland.[1][2]

Founded in 1910, it is one of the few remaining pubs in Scotland still run under the Gothenburg system, with at least 95% of the profits donated to community causes.[3] During miners' strikes, The Goth hosted soup kitchens and supported miners' strike funds.[4] It remains as a marker of the village's mining history.[5]

The Goth has close ties with the neighbouring bowls club.[4][6]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d "Fallin Public House Society Limited". Financial Conduct Authority. Archived from the original on 10 October 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
2. ^ Mair, Craig (2010). The Gothenburg 1910 – 2010: a hundred years of history in Fallin. Fallin Public House Society Limited.
\- Whitelaw, Graham (2 April 1999). "Cheers to the Goth". Stirling Observer. p. 14.
3. ^ White, Gregor (3 November 2010). "Fallin's Goth celebrates 100 years". The Daily Record. Archived from the original on 9 October 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
4. ^ a b Mair, Craig (2011). "Fallin's Gothenburg Public House and Stirling's Forgotten Swimming Pool". Forth Naturalist and Historian. 34. University of Stirling: 145–151\. doi:10.5284/1047558. ISBN 978-1-898008-69-9. ISSN 0309-7560. Archived from the original on 7 October 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
5. ^ Mills, Catherine; McIntosh, Ian (2 January 2020). "'I See the Site of the Old Colliery Every Day': Scotland's Landscape Legacies of Coal". Landscapes. 21 (1): 13–14\. doi:10.1080/14662035.2020.1864095. hdl:1893/32110. ISSN 1466-2035. S2CID 233792586. Archived from the original on 10 July 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
6. ^ Glen, Ian James (December 2014). 'Community means the World to me': an ethnographic study of a public house and bowling club (PhD). University of Stirling. hdl:1893/21793. Archived from the original on 10 July 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2019.