Electric Bar

colinji

Large bar with pool, bandits, poker & football 14th June 2007

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The Electric is the closest pub to my home so it has become my local.
Still a bit of a man's pub & a bit of a clubhouse for ex Dalziel pupils.
The crack is good but not for the thin skinned. There's a real cross section of people drink here, which is probably why the banter is so good. There are MD's to forklift drivers, from the eloquent to possible tourette sufferers (or is it us that suffer?), sorry Boab.
The pub was a bit run down and quiet when I first went there but Stuart & his brother have splashed some of the profits and the place is now a lot fresher. The pub is getting busy and there's more ladies coming in now (that's excluding the fanny at the end of the bar). This can't be a bad thing. Stuart has set up bands & DJ's etc, this hasn't always been successful but that is probably due to the local rag getting the dates wrong.
All in all the chat is lively and the beer is good, what more do you want in a pub. The only downside for me is that's there's too much football (not my thing) but there's usually a wee game of poker to be had.
Give it a visit I think you'll enjoy it, if you do you owe me a pint!

Layclerk

6th March 2007

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Happy memories of being in sixth year at Dalziel High School in Motherwell, and having various free periods during the week. Often my mate Dougie and I used to take advantage of the good weather and lack of supervision (we were old enough to be trusted - ha!) when our free periods coincided to take off our blazers and ties and leave them in the sixth year common room, and wander across the Duchess of Hamilton Park to the other side where lay ......... heaven!

We used to brazenly stroll into the Electric Bar and have a beer or two and a game of darts or pool, before casually sauntering back the way we came in time to get properly dressed for our next lessons. We thought we were being completely covert by removing our blazers and ties, but this left us wearing black shoes, grey trousers and grey shirts and when I look back on it I cringe to realise we must have been so bloody obviously Dalziel pupils! But they served us anyway!


The Electric is still the unofficial Dalziel Former Pupils pub and the last time I briefly went there, enroute to a 40th birthday party for a former school mate, I walked in and at least half a dozen people sitting at the bar were instantly recognisable as being contemporaries of mine at school who hadn't quite escaped the clutches of the Electric. I swear they hadn't moved off the bar stools since 1980! And yes, it is as boring a building as the photo suggests!

I've just finished reading Margrave of the Marshes, the biography of John Peel, and apparently he visited here, took part in the music quiz, and got right royally pissed when visiting a friend in Motherwell. I have since mentioned this to people who still drink there and they knew nothing of it. You'd think they'd have a plaque up or something! Or at least use the connection as a bit of free publicity.