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Dale Street

The Glen-ythan

January 25, 2017 by John Gorevan Leave a Comment

 

33 Dale Street, Glasgow.

Glenythan

The Glen-ythan. c1900.

The Glen-ythan Bar sat on Dale Street, Bridgeton for many years. in the 1890s there were five pubs and a licensed grocers business on this street.

Thomas McKenna ran this old howff in the 1870s, the pub was taken over by well known spirit merchant Hugh McCabe.

Mr McCabe formerly worked for John Graham & Sons, prominent figure in the Scottish Licensed Trade who owned pubs all over the city. McCabe left his employee to start on his own in the old Glen-ythan Bar.

Hugh paid an annul rent of £19 15 shillings for the premises, he passed away in 1902, his wife Jeanie then took over the licence, she sold up a few years later.

Mary Armstrong then took over this old pub which was then very run down and in great need of alterations to keep up with the rest of the pubs in Bridgeton, however she never spent money on repairs and redecoration. In the early 1920s the pub was visited by the magistrates as there were a number of complaints about the state of her old pub, the main complaint was the smell in the pub which was so bad that strangers going into the pub had to hold their nose, the locals must have been used to it.

The plumbing had to be repaired and so did the decoration, the pub hadn’t been decorated for years Adjacent to the bar was a small sitting room with a partition from the floor to the ceiling, there was glass half way up but was not clear enough to see through, the magistrates suggested that the partition should be removed so that you could see into the sitting room and would help with the ventilation.

If Mrs Armstrong refused to do this she was in great danger of losing her licence, however she did remove part of the partition, four and a half feet from the floor. Her licence was refused a few months later and the pub was demolished.

Licence Holders.
1921-1910 Mary Hodgson Norris Armstrong.
1902 Jeanie Gilchrist McCabe.
1902-1887 Hugh McCabe.
1875 Thomas McKenna.

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The Fern Vaults

January 17, 2017 by John Gorevan Leave a Comment

 

56 Dale Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow.

The Fern Vaults

The Fern Vaults. 1888.

The Fern Vaults sat in the shadow of the Corporation Gas Works at 56 and a half Dale Street, Bridgeton. The proprietor in 1888 was wine and spirit merchant Thomas Ferguson, he got his training in the Auld Hay House, Canning Street, near the Barrowfield Brewery, where he served for seven years.

Thomas stocked large quantities of Avon Dhu (label Red Hand and Cross Swords) a fine old Highland Scotch Whisky, owned by Messrs. John Hair & Company., Glasgow. Mr Ferguson also kept on tap and bottles John Haig Whisky, the finest ales were also stocked including Melvin’s 60 shilling ale, Oswald, Paterson & Co’s nourishing Stout and Adamson’s Stout and Ale, fine Champagnes, brandies and wines were also stocked.

Thomas was a member of the Eastern Merchants and Tradesmen’s Society, his diploma dated back to 1877 and numbers 699. This speaks volumes for a man of 32 years of age. The pub was the hunting ground of the Gas workers and was jam packed on pay day.

Well known publican Francis Meichen owned the pub from 1897, he sold the business to Martin Maloney who traded from here until the pub was demolished during the First World War.

 

Facts…

Dale Street had other well known pub including

Matthew Burnside’s, 98 Dale Street coner of Dalmarnock Road..

John Dyce’s Bar 42 Dale Street corner of King Street.

Agnes Fyfe 45 Dale Street.

Hugh McCabe’s 33 Dale Street.

Mrs Margaret MacPherson 6-8 Dale Street, she also had pubs at Duke Street and Main Street Bridgeton.

Boxer Tommy Milligan had a pub at the corner of Dale Street and Main Street.

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