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Windsor Lounge

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814 Govan Road corner of 2-4 Water Row, Glasgow.

Windsor Lounge Water Row

Windsor Lounge, Water Row, Govan. 1963.

The Windsor Lounge sat at the corner of Water Row and Govan Road. In 1880 William Robin was proprietor of this old public house, he also ran another establishment at 62-64 Thistle Street, Gorbals in the south side of the city, he live at 12 Sandyford Street. William was a well-known Spirit Merchant in the Licensed Trade in Govan and Glasgow as Govan was then not part of the City. After the First World War Mr Robin was paying an annul rent of £100 for the pub in Water Row, he continued to run the pub well into the 1900s.

During the 1930s a Mr A Philip was landlord, he served the locals here for many years and some will still remember him as he was still the licensee until the 1960s, the pub was demolished around 1963.

The Windsor Bar

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342 Cumberland Street corner of 2 Naburn Street, Gorbals. S.S.

interior of the Windsor bar ceiling with a hole in it. 1960.

The Windsor Bar with a hole in the ceiling. 1960.

In 1960 Raiders dropped in on a Glasgow Public House…

The pub was the Windsor Bar at the corner of Cumberland Street and Naburn Street, Gorbals.

The raiders, who dropped in through a hole in the roof, escaped with 16 bottles of whisky, five bottles of rum, 2000 cigarettes, and about £10. They got in by climbing into a loft in a near-by close in Cumberland Street and making their way to an empty house above the pub.

HOLE IN ROOF…

The bottles of whisky and rum and the cigarettes were stolen from the gantry and the cash from the till. A detective constable followed the route taken by the intruders from the close through the loft, to the hole they had made in the public house roof.

The discovery of the break-in was made by barmen when they arrived to start work. They phoned the police.

There has been a pub on this site since 1879. William Paton a wine and spirit merchant took over and continued to serve the locals until 1884.

John Anderson then took over followed by Robert Anderson a relative of John’s probably his son. The Anderson family continued in the pub until 1950. William Hutchison took over in 1951 until the pub was demolished in the 1970s.

This old pub must have been very successful as there were only a few different families that held certificates for this local.

Do you remember this old pub, if so please get in touch.

Wilson’s Bar

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196-98 Stobcross Street, Glasgow.

Wilson's Bar

Wilson’s Bar. 1890.

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In 1891 William Flockhart, manager of Wilson’s Bar, Stobcross Street, Glasgow celebrated an interesting and pleasant ceremony which took place in the pub. The occasion being the completion by Mr Flockhart of eleven years in this establishment. A select party sat down to supper, the chair being occupied by Mr H Sheppard. After supplying in inner man, Mr John Davidson of 95 Waterloo Street, in an appropriate speech, referred to the pleasure he had, in the name of a few friends, of presenting Mr Flockhart with a handsome gold albert watch and badge, the latter bearing a suitable inscription expressive of their esteem and good wishes for his future. Mr Flockhart suitably replied, and a pleasant evening was thereafter spent in harmony and song. Among those present were, Messrs. James Gillespie (Gray & Co.) Lang (Brown & Lang) S Briton, cigar merchant, London and Adam Smith, who acted as secretary on the occasion.

Mr William Flockhart

Mr William Flockhart. 1892.

Mr Flockhart got his extensive training with wine and spirit merchant William Brechin, He was heavily involved in the consolidating the Glasgow Wine, Spirit and Beer Trade Employees’ Benevolent Institution and was elected President. At the age of twenty eight he was one of the youngest men to hold that position.