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My favourite building: Cathy Sharp and Sandy Bell's pub

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May 19, 2026
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SANDY Bell’s is a pub of stories. Proudly declaring itself to be the ‘home of world-renowned folk music’, plenty of other people are better placed than I am to tell you of the history of the pub, particularly its associations with the folk music revival.

The premises are a former corner shop on the ground floor of an imposing Edinburgh Old Town tenement.

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