mack4 wrote:Bridie wrote:so.....rambling a bit further up to Charing X and across the road from Equi's there was a pub slap bang on the corner called???
I went in one evening and sat next but one to James Cosmo who was having a dram with his wee westie next to him. I wish I had spoken to him.
Was that the Variety Bar as was (is),he was a regular in there. I'm thinking it used to be called the Norseman?
Or am I going in the wrong direction?
mack
You're going in the wrong direction and the previous posts have already answered the question. The Variety Bar used to be called the Norsk so you weren't too far off there. There are several references to the Norsk on this forum but I can't be bothered seaching for them just now.
I do know that James Cosmo frequented the Griffin, just across the road, for a while because I remember having a drink with him there once, but it was nearly 30 years ago. I think he was appearing in Take The High Road at the time. On that particular occasion I lent him a book which I happened to have with me (a biography of B. Traven). I also remember that I had quite a job getting the book back off him, but in my experience that's what usually happens when you lend books to people.