Sign at the Oxford Bar. A public house situated on Young Street, in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. Insp' Rebus's local - Scotland , UK, EH2 4JB

. Sign at the Oxford Bar. A public house situated on Young Street, in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. Insp' Rebus's local - Scotland , UK, EH2 4JB. Photographed on 26 August 2013. The recorded location is The Oxford Bar, 8 Young Street, Edinburgh EH2 4JB. The modest Oxford Bar is a public house situated on Young Street, in the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector Rebus's local from the Ian rankin books. A super secret tourist attraction for first time visitors to the city. The Oxford Bar in Edinburgh's New Town is a small, traditional public house with a long history on Young Street and a Category B listed interior. It became internationally known through Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels, in which the fictional detective drinks there. The literary association has made an otherwise understated local pub part of Edinburgh's crime-fiction tourism, while the surviving compartmentalised bar layout preserves an older form of Scottish pub interior. Historically, british pubs evolved from inns, taverns and alehouses into licensed social institutions that have long served as meeting places, drinking houses, music venues and landmarks within town and village life; Their architecture, signs, interiors and evolving names often preserve layers of local commercial and social history. Looking at the subject's development, town and city centres are continually rewritten by new structures, transport schemes and changing commercial uses; Photographs preserve the everyday fabric between major landmarks, including underpasses, arcades, back streets and small businesses that may disappear during redevelopment. As background, public wording is part of the visual landscape; Direction signs, warning notices, painted advertisements and engraved plaques show how authorities and businesses communicated before digital screens and app-based information became widespread. Further subject-specific language includes licensed premises, hostelry, bar trade, and hospitality.