351 Main Street, Blantyre, Glasgow G72 0DJ. Tel: 01698 327300.
The Apollo Bar, Blantyre. 2005.
Other images from the main thoroughfare.
The Masonic Hall next door to the pub date 1884 is prominently displayed on the side of the building.
The Apollo Bar apparently sold Tennent’s Lager.
Auchinraith Vaults,High Blantyre.
Barnhill Tavern (Hoolets West).
Another well Known firm in Blantyre was the Springfield Mineral Water Company, High Blantyre. 1895.
The Queen’s Hotel was sold in 1892 to Mr MacDonald for £2,410. On four separate occasions this hotel was submitted to public auction without success.
Berwick.
Mrs Hannah Grieve. 1970.
It was the END of an era when the doors of the Queen’s Head bar in Berwick closed for the last time on Saturday,31st October 1970. Coincidental with the retirement of Berwick’s oldest licensee, 83 year old Mrs Hannah Grieve, Vaux have decided to close down the 200 year old pub.
Hannah, who had been behind the bar of the Queen’s Head bar for 41 years and had spent her whole life in the trade is pictured pulling the last pint of Guinness. 1970.
In the Ednam House Hotel, Kelso.
Border Trade Have A Ball.
Licensees from Berwickshire at the Berwickshire Licensed Trade Association Ball in the Ednam Hotel, Kelso. The above photograph was taken in 1970, the guests were on their way to be seated for dinner.
John Smith, secretary of the Scottish Licensed Trade Veto Defence Fund, Arthur Squair, president of the Berwickshire Association, Morris Barr, junior Vive-president of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association and Des O’Brien, general manager, Guinness (Scotland), with Mrs Squair, Mrs Barr and Mrs O’Brien. 1970.
Berwick Licensed Trade Association.
News In 1970…
John Carlin the mine host of the Bewcastle Arms Hotel at Coldstream, Berwickshire, Councillor John C Carlin has died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He was 45 years of age.
Councillor Carlin was licensee at the Killingworth Arms Hotel, Killingworth, Newcastle before moving to Coldstream 18 months ago.
