Operated by Jonathan Stewart mine host offers a 10-15 minute guided tour of the premises including cellar covering history and architecture. The Speedwell Bar is situated in the heart of Dundee’s West End and is also affectionately known as “Mennies” after the landlady who ran the hostelry for over half a century. Built for James Speen in 1903 the Speedwell Bar is one of the finist examples of an Edwardian bar embracing all that is good in pub architecture at the beginning of the 20^th Century. Even the toilets retain the original Shanks fittings, tiles and mosaics. The building is one of the few surviving pubs mentioned in the definitive 1983 book “Peoples Places, Victorian and Edwardian Pubs of Scotland”.

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