Hollywood star eyes up new role as tour guide

Could Broughty’s burger king tempt Brian Cox back home?

A Bob Servant Heritage Trail around Broughty Ferry is the lucrative retirement plan concocted by actor Brian Cox.

The Hollywood star has announced that he intends to stand for re-election as Dundee University’s rector – but has a back-up plan to resume his career as a cheeseburger mogul.

From Bob’s ‘space-age extension’, to a pub crawl looking for the legendary Stewpot’s Bar, Broughty Ferry is full of sights from the Bob Servant books and sitcom.

Mr Cox said he could possibly get a decommissioned bus to take people around the tour, which he envisions will go around the Ferry, a burger van, as well as all the churches Bob has visited during this time.

He said: “The extension would be one of them.

“They did have a plaque but I think they took it down – theyhey were probably too ashamed of the second series.”

Bob Servant creator Neil Forsyth has already ready welcomed the idea, saying the Dundee legend would make a “top drawer” tour guide.

He said: “I think a Bob Servant heritage trail sounds wonderful and that Brian would be a top drawer tour guide, tough but fair I should imagine.”

“I’m not sure what at they would do for Stewpot’s Bar though as I’ve always seen it as half Doc Ferry’s then a combination of all the other pubs in the Ferry, so that section of the tour could take a while.”

Currently the only thing lacking in the tour is a cheeseburgers van down by the swans att the harbour, which Neil said would be “lovely and probably successful”.

I think a Bob Servant heritage trail sounds wonderful...