118 London Road, Glasgow.
The Railway Bar. 1930s.
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This very onl pub was known as the Nags Head in the 1960s.
The Nage Head on the left and the Oxford Tavern on the right. 1960.
The Old Swan Inn
1534 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow. G43 1RF. Tel: 01416320161.
Old Swan Inn. 1991.
For many years this old pub was called the Old Swan Inn until 1996, it was then called the Stout and Ferret, it is now called 1901 after the date it was built.
However there has been an old Inn on this site since the 1800s and known as the Old Swan Inn.
North Rutunda
Tunnel Street, Glasgow.
North Rutunda. 1991.
The Nipp
418 Parliamentary Road, Glasgow.
The Nipp was situated on Parliamentary Road at the corner of Killermont Street.
There was a pub on this site since at least the 1860s.
The first licensee was a gentleman called Colin More who was trading from these premises in 1860. He lived with his family at 10 Killermont Street a few yards from his place of business. Mr More was first a spirit merchant but by the 1870s was registered as a wine and spirit merchant. Colin sadly passed away in 1884 aged 66 he may have retired a year earlier a year before.
Titus Mulholland owned the premises in the 1890s which were very much smaller than that of the pub in the 1930s.
Major alterations were carried out in 1939, proprietor James Sutherland had architect James Taylor Thomson, 212 bath Street to draw up plans for the new pub. Two adjacent shops and part of a third shop at the rear was taken over to make the pub very much larger.
The new Nipp consisted of a semi circular bar counter with an over head canopy with tube lighting. Two new sitting rooms were also installed a new office and lavatory accommodation. Central heating was now a new addition to the pub.
Manager of the Nipp was a gentleman called Arthur McGowan. For seventeen years he was employed here, during which time her served six years with the R.A.F. during the war. Nine years of his service was as manager. He then left to manage the Cathcart Bar, Cathcart Road owned by Mr Brash before joining the staff of Campbell Henderson & Co., wholesale and retail wine and spirit merchants and off-licence traders, whose head office was at 220-222 Broomielaw. When this firm was founded in 1910 they had no travellers employed up until around 1949. The firm were proprietors of the well known Strathduie whisky.
Thanks to Fraser Hamilon for the info on Colin More.
Arthur McGowan, manager of the Nipp.
Licence Holders.
1960 William Henry Devlin.
1956 J Smith.
1947-1937 James Sutherland.
1919-1913 Thomas McCall White.
1910 Hugh Mullaney.
1902-1892 Titus Mulholland.
1863 Colin More.
Ninety Two
92 Cambridge Street, Glasgow.
In 1896 Andrew Millar was the owner of this old public house, he paid and annul rent of £85.00. He continued as landlord here until 1911. The licence was then transferred to publican George Williamson until after the First World War.
Well known city spirit merchant Thomas Pattison ran this old establishment until the 1950s, he also ran a pub at the corner of London Road and Nuneaton Street in the east end of the city and premises on Maryhill Road, the Kelvin Dock. The founder of the business Dugald Pattison took over the Kelvin Dock in 1884.
The Ninety Two bar was situated at the corner of Cambridge Street and Ferguson Street and was finally demolished in the 1960s, through the City Council’s redevelopment scheme in the area.
Facts…
In 1899 there were five public houses sitting on Cambridge Street and one licensed grocers business.
The Nile
60 West Nile Street, Glasgow. G1 2NP. Tel: 01412486830.
The Nile. 1991.
This was once a fish mongers run by Thomas Anderson.
Now Pizza restaurant. 2007.
There was a nice wee bar underneath the Nile called the Source.