Deacon Brodies for welcome lunch

As a big get together and welcoming for new Nine Trades of Dundee artists David and Ange we had lunch together with Ben and Alan who have been working on their Nine Trades project for a while. Deacon Brodies was the location - and we were served by Kate who had given David the low down on they life of the bar earlier in the day....its a potential partner venue for his project.

Here is a picture of the outside of the bar - its on Ward Road. I was wondering what the name comes from and found this text online explaining whay the respectable tradesman Deacon Brodie may have been the inspiration for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde! A larger than life, 18th century Edinburgh "character", William Brodie was a pillar of the community by day. But he led a dissolute life of drinking and gambling by night which was leading to his bankruptcy. So he turned to burglary and by taking wax impressions of the keys to houses in which he was working legitimately as a wood-worker, he was able to perpetrate some spectacular thefts. He was eventually uncovered and sentenced to hang. But afterwards, there were rumours that he had cheated (or bribed) the hangman and was said to have been seen later living in Paris.
The double life of Deacon Brodie as the respectable tradesman and daring thief is said to have been the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's story of "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".