The Crosslands

The Crosslands was a public house in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, Scotland, that featured in the 1996 film Trainspotting.

The pub is located on the north end[1] of Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow.

[3] In 2015, the historically working-class pub[4] was given a £40,000 refurbishment by new owners Kained Holdings in an attempt to attract more middle-class customers.

[2] The Crosslands appears in a scene in Danny Boyle's 1996 Trainspotting, in the scene character Francis "Franco" Begbie throws a pint glass from the pubs mezzanine area to the area below, injuring a female patron[4] and starting a fight.

[5] The film's producers paid the pub's owners £700 and its customers £20 each plus free drinks to get their approval to shoot the scene.

The Crosslands in 2011