A new mural on the Old Vale Bar
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A new mural on the Old Vale Bar
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 17 Jun 2018
The bar is at the corner of Main Street and Albert Street, and the art is by Barry the Cat. I am grateful to the person from the bar who took the time to explain the details to me on the day. The mural was painted in such a way as not to clash with the existing colour scheme of the bar. Among the local worthies, past and recent, commemorated in it are Tobias Smollett, at the lower-left corner (Image / Image), and Skeets Gallacher, at the far right (Image). Long ago, a horse could put its head through a hatch in the side of the building to feed from a bucket; the artwork alludes to this. That hatch is now a window (appropriately, the one with the horse painted around it).
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Image Location
Latitude
55.983562
Longitude
-4.581391