beneld wrote:Having been around quite a few pubs in the last year, I have noticed there is usually a red painted part of the bar. It could be the ceiling, as in the Carnarvon , Imperial and Ettrick , the walls , like the Dowanhill, or columns, like Henglers . There are many more examples.
Is there a name for that shade of red ? is there a reason it is so common ? It is very common and a consistent muted shade of red , not quite red sandstone but that may be it.
Also does anyone have a copy or know where i can get a copy of the "Glasgow & Strathclyde Pub Crawls " poster by Bernie Carroll that hangs on the wall in Fiddlers and Orwells ? How many of those pubs shown still exist ?
EDIT And of course the barbiographer has colored his website in a similar manner ( http://thebarbiographer.blogspot.com/ )
Funny you should say that, I was down in London recently and quite a few of the pubs there had a similar shade of red on the plaster ceilings....