Swinton, Glasgow.
To read the full history of this popular hostely click here.
Also see James McLean’s other establishment click here.
Swinton, Glasgow.
To read the full history of this popular hostely click here.
Also see James McLean’s other establishment click here.
372-74 Great Western Road, Glasgow. G4 9HT. Tel: 0141 339 9177.
Junkyard Dog. 2007.
Junkyard Dog is now closed and is taken over by Colin Barr and will be renamed Republic Bier Halle West.
This is the Republic Bier Halle West.
Update. May 2007.
Now called Republic Bier Halle West.
The firm also has a place called Republic @ Home Pizza & Bier. Tel: 0141 339 9177.
also see Republic Bier Halle Gordon Street, Sauchiehall
Republic Bier Halle. 2008.
Republic Bier Halle sign. 2008.
The Original Republic Bier Halle is at 9 Gordon Street off Buchanan Street and one onĀ 323 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
281-83 Crown Street corner of 226 Cumberland Street, Gorbals, Glasgow.
John W Souter also known as the Victoria Bar, corner of 281-83 Crown Street and 226 Cumberland Street. also in the this frame is the Cumberland Bar on the opposite corner. 1960s.
In 1861 William McDonald acquired a licence to sell porter, beer, wine, and spirits. Mr McDonald lived nearby at 193 Crown Street. He continued to serve the locals here until 1864.
The next licensee was wine and spirit merchant John Gardiner. Mr Gardiner also had a pubs 247 High Street and Gibson Street, Hillhead and lived at 185 Crown Street.
In 1880 John was a tea and wine merchant at 18 Gibson Street, Hillhead, 281-83 Crown Street and 120 Buchanan Street. Sixteen years later he was living in better accommodation at 530 Great Western Road.
This image taken in the 1960s on Crown Street on the right is John W Souter’s Victoria Bar and the Cumberland Bar on the opposite corner.
John Gardiner continued as licensee until 1896. Robert Reid the acquired the licence. The name of the pub was then Robert Reid, Victoria Bar. Robert was living with his family at 103 Fotheringay Street. He was also a wine and spirit merchant and traded here until 1921. Like many Glasgow publicans he struggled through the WW1.
In 1922 John Wallace Souter acquired the licence and kept the pub going until it was finally demolished in the late 1960s. John W Souter kept the pub name “the Victoria Bar” and later put his name above the door.
Stockwell Street, Glasgow.
John Scott’s Tavern, Stockwell Street. 1819.
A watercolour of Stockwell Street in 1819 by Andrew Donaldson.
This thatched building stood at the southern end of Stockwell Street near the waterfront. The left-hand section of the building housed the tavern of John Scott, described on the sign at the door as a “Vintner and Stabler”. The chimney sweep William Girvin occupied the section on the right, advertising “Vents on fire extinguished in the shortest notice”. The small trestle table in front of the building was a stall which sold fresh milk, from cows milked on the spot.
Born near Belfast, Donaldson came to Glasgow as a boy. He became a spinner, but an injury damaged his health and he turned to art instead. He worked principally in watercolour’s, although he also taught drawing. His earliest works are views of Glasgow and they had a profound influence on the young William Simpson, who wrote that he “looked carefully at Donaldson’s pictures, which were often in a shop window in Queen Street, and tried to do something like them at home”. Thanks to the Mitchell Library.
23 Ashton Lane, Glasgow. G12 8SJ. Tel: 0141 339 0747. Off Byres Road.
Jinty M’Ginty’s. 2007.
Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
Joe Paparazzi. 1990.