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The Old Vic

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500-510 Victoria Road, Glasgow. G42 8PQ. Tel: 01414332431.

Old Vic

The Old Vic. 1991.

The Old Vic was opened in 1965 by Tennent Caledonian Breweries Ltd. It was formerly Thomson & Thomson Wines & Groceries Ltd a licensed grocers business in the 1940s.

A year after the opening of the Old Vic a new lounge was added which could seat 80 people. The Snug lounge as it was known was declared opened by Allan Anderson of West of Scotland sales manager for Tennent Caledonian Breweries.

The new manager was Mr P Calder helped by his wife and daughter.

Old Vic 1 interior

At the opening of the new lounge left to right R B Baxter, Tennent Caledonian Breweries, A Anderson and Mr D Peebles, Carlsberg Scottish Importers Ltd. 1966.

Old Vic interior

left to right Miss H Calder, Mrs & Mr P Calder and Miss M Riley of Rent-a-Flower who provided the flower arrangements for the occasion.

The Old Vic had a facelift and a name change, Nickie Tam’s.

It’s now Called O’Donnell’s Bar & Music Lounge. Tel: 0141 433 2430.

O'Donnell's Bar

O’Donnell’s Bar.

Licence Holder.
1973-1969 James Cameron (for Tennent Caledonia Breweries Ltd.)

New Normal Bar

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32 Great Western Road, Glasgow.

The New Normal Bar Great Western Road

The New Normal Bar, 32 Great Western Road, after the great fire 1972.

Owner Jimmy Hargan opened this pub after his old premises were demolished, the Normal Bar at number 5 New City Road, and called his new bar “The New Normal Bar” at the start of Great Western Road near the junction of St. Georges’ Cross. The pub was demolished along with the tenement building after a great fire.

Read more on the Normal Bar Click Here.

In the NEWS November 1972…

Demand for greater precautions after big fire…

Mrs Nancy Ballantyne, convener of Glasgow Corporation police and fire committee, has called for a co-ordination committee to deal with all aspects of fire fighting after a tenement fire on Saturday in which a fireman died trying to rescue a woman, who also died, and 31 other persons were injured.

Twenty-seven firemen have lost their lives in the past 12 years fighting fires in the city. Another councillor, Bailie Albert Long, has called for a full investigation by corporation officials to see if all proper fire precautions were taken.

Mrs Ballantyne’s request is made in a letter which she will hand to Mr William Gray, the Lord Provost, today. In the letter, she will ask that special attention should be paid to all disused property, particularly empty shops beneath occupied tenements.

The fireman who died on Saturday, Sub-Officer Adrian McGill, was said yesterday to have sacrificed his life trying to save the woman, who was trapped on the top floor of a burning tenement in Maryhill Road, Glasgow.

DEMOLITION

The woman, Mrs Alice Mulgrew, aged 48, died after she was brought down from a narrow ledge outside her home by other firemen. In her letter, Mrs Ballantyne refers to the fact that Sub-Officer McGill is the eighth fireman to die this year in fires in the city, seven have died at a warehouse fire in Kilbirnie Street in August.

She will ask the Lord Provost to consider what steps might be taken to have all derelict propery demolished, to have special precautions taken where shops stood empty beneath occupied tenements to ensure the safetly of firemen and the safe entry of fire-fighting vehicles through narrow lanes which were sometimes blocked by cars.

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The Camp Bar.

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110 Renfrew Street, Glasgow. Demolished.

The Camp Bar was situated at the entrance of the Queen’s Arcade. Thanks to Mitchell Library for this image.

The Camp Bar. 1960s. Thanks to Mitchell Library for this image.

This photograph is from the early 1960s, when the name “Camp Bar” would not have been regarded as incompatible with the accepted macho image of Glasgow pubs. Next door to the Queen Arcade in Renfrew Street, it provided a haven for husbands while their wives went shopping.

For many years the Camp Bar was run by a well-known publican, Patrick McKay. Born in Cushenden, Co Antrim, McKay entered the licensed trade in Belfast at 15 years of age. He moved to Glasgow and worked in the Smiddy and the Bunch of Grapes in the West End, as well as the Royal Bar in Hope Street, before taking over the Camp Bar in 1924. He rebuilt the pub in 1939, with a new counter and gantry and chrome and mirrored glass furnishings.

The Camp Bar was demolished a few years after this photograph was taken.

The New Camp Bar sign which hung above the pub. Patrick McKay called the pub “New Camp Bar” after a major refit in 1939.

The Camp Bar. 1960s.

To read the full history of this popular Glasgow pub Click here.

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The New Era Bar

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Possibly at Rutherglen Road corner of Thistle Street, Gorbals.

The New Era Bar Gorbals

Customers of the New Era Bar, Gorbals, 1951.

This picture was taken prior to their outing in the summer of 1951 to Dumfries. The landlord of the New Era Bar at that time was John Scanlan.

DO YOU KNOWN WHERE THIS PUB WAS. IF SO PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.

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