TWO Bankies have shown that you don’t need to go outside to visit your local – it can be done from the comfort of your own home.

Artist Owen McGuigan, whom the Post featured last month, and his nephew David Greer, have been dressing up their homes with scenes from real and fictional pubs that they can no longer visit due to coronavirus lockdown measures.

In the funny photos, Owen and David visit local favourite the Sixty Ate in Clydebank, as well as The Burnbrae Hotel in Bearsden, The Park Bar in Dalmuir, and Bag O’ Nails in Partick as well as pub settings from favourite TV shows Cheers and The Clansman, from Still Game.

Owen said: “My wife, Helen and I were put in the shielded category and we were not allowed out of our house.

“So, on a Skype call one evening to my family I suggest to David that we could Skype every Wednesday with our drinks – a virtual pub visit. He liked the idea.

“I decided to print pub names every week and the first pub was the Park Bar, the one we visit when David is designated driver.

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“The next week it was the Burnbrae Hotel, the pub we visit when I am designated driver. For our fourth visit I decided on the Bag O’ Nails where David and I have had a few lunches.

“Then we decided to go as Jack and Victor to the Clansman, as David’s children call us that when we sometimes meet up for a pub lunch. So, we made the masks. It was fun.”

David added: “We grew up together, and although he is technically my uncle, he is my best friend.

“We have been meeting up for a quiet pint every week for the last 44 years, so lockdown was the first major interruption.

“I do look forward to our virtual nights though as we WhatsApp each other regularly, nothing beats face to face where you can see how people are really doing, and still meeting each week brings a bit of normality to lockdown.”

When asked if this is something that they would keep doing post-lockdown, Owen said: “We will as long as the pubs are closed, and probably when, for some reason, we can’t meet up. We are thinking, on our first visit back to the Park Bar, we will sit at each end of the bar and Skype each other just for a laugh.”