41 East Kilbride Road, Glasgow.
Four Seasons. 1991.
Address E
Errigal View.
311 Eglinton Street, corner of 59 Cavendish Street, Glasgow. G5 9DE. Demolished.
Errigal View on the far left. Thanks to Norrie McNamee for the image.
Errigal View. Corner of Eglinton Street and Cavendish Street.
This pub got its name from the beautiful scenic view in County Donegal, Ireland.
There has been a public house on this sit since 1852. Throughout its history the same family had owned it. Founded by Wine & Spirit Merchant Francis B Buchanan.
In 1870 Francis acquired another pub at 213-15 Eglinton Street at the corner of Cumberland Street. For years Francis lived with his wife and family in Eglinton Street. Francis passed away in 1897, his wife Mary then took over the running of the business. Mary was now living at 26 Maxwell Drive. Mrs Buchanan died in 1915. The licence was then taken over by her son James C Buchanan as one of the trustees of her estate.
In 1937 James B Struthers was running the pub for the Buchanan’s. After the Second World War the firm became a limited company. During the 1950s-60s Robert Johnston was licensee and a director of James C Buchanan Ltd.
Other well known licensees to run the pub under the Buchanan’s were…
Mary Herries Friel, E J McMonigle and Mick McGintey. This old pub was still here in the late 1970s and then demolished, just like any of the businesses in the area.
Mr E J McMonigle took over a public house in West Campbell Street, City Centre and called it the City Rendezvous.
Other names this old pub has been known as is Cathkin Bar, Rendezvous Bar.
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Orwell’s, Dorset Bar.
70 Elderslie Street, Glasgow. G3 7AL. Tel: 0141 221 4439.
There has been a pub on this site since 1877.
Many will remember this old pub as the Dorset Bar.
Facts…
Licence Holders.
1991 William McGill.
1978-1962 John Manning.
1960 T Moore.
1950-1937 William B Anderson.
1930 N Campbell.
1920 Thomas Reid.
1910 George Stewart.
1899 John Gilchrist.
1890 A Lindsay.
1885 Joseph Pedelty.
1880-1877 James Kay.
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Devon Bar
355 Eglinton Street, corner of 41 Devon Street, Glasgow. Demolished.
There has been a public house on this site from the 1880s, owned by renowned publican Duncan Cameron. Mr Cameron was also landlord of the famous southside bar which is now known as Neeson’s in Allison Street. In 1885 Duncan Cameron was living at Levenside Villa, Albert Road, Crosshill, and continued to serve the locals here until 1897.
The new landlord John Neish took over the licence on April in the same year. Mr Neish was a wine and spirit merchant trading from 102 Norfolk Street at the corner of Portland Street and lived at 81 Waverley Gardens, Crossmyloof, Glasgow in the southside of the city.
John Neish had a special Old Highland Whisky called ‘Clan Neish’ and the was was then called “The Eglinton Arms Bar.” Mr Neish continued as licensee until 1903. The licence was then taken over by Agnes McNeish in the summer of that year and continued until after the First World War. Mrs Neish was paying an annual rent of £60 for the pub. In 1921 Agnes Innes Dunlop Neish Steel was licensee, she took over from her mother then James Steel was licensee Mrs McNeish’s son-in-law. The pub was then in the same family for 20 years.
Another well known publican to run this popular bar was Peter Smith, he lived at 29 First Avenue, Netherlee, and ran the pub in the 1930s. The pub was still in the same family in the 1960s when Sheila MacCallum Smith was licensee.
In 1963 the licence was once again changes, John S Donaghey took over the pub and continued until the pub was finally demolished in 1981. Jack Donaghey was given 48 hours notice to vacate the premises, a shock to anyone’s system. He also owned a pub called the Mill Inn on the other side of Devon Street.
Thanks to Jack Donaghey’s son Raymond.
Mr John Donaghey, A McAulay, Pig & Whistle and John Waterson, Burns Howff. 1970.
Gorbals group photo 1974. The image includes Mrs M Malarkey; Charles Sweeney; Michael Heraghty, convener and Mrs Heraghty; G Watt (Bell’s Whisky); E O’Doherty; Mrs O’Doherty; H Gallagher and Mrs Gallagher; J Donaghey and Mrs Donaghey.
The Devon Bar on the extreme left with a view of Eglinton Street. 1960s. Thanks to Norrie McNamee for the image.
Left to right J McCormack (Harveys); Mrs McCormack; J Park (Harveys); Mrs Park; John Donaghey; Mrs Donaghey; and Mr T S Candlish (King George IV). 1970.
This group photograph was taken during the Glasgow Vintners Golden Jubilee dinner dance in the Bellahouston Hotel, Glasgow in 1970.
Included are Mr. John Donaghey (The Devon Bar); Mr. J. McCormack; Mr. E. Mulgrew, Dewer’s; Mr. T. M. Park (J. & R. Harvey). 1973.
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The Dalriada
678 Edinburgh Road, Cranhill, Glasgow. G32. Demolished.
The Dalriada opened in 1963 by Rio Stakis and was demolished in the 1990s. At the end there was a lot of violence in the pub, someone was severely attacked in the lounge, this was the last straw, the place closed down shortly afterwards.
Interior view of the Dalriada, the bar was massive.
Janet Munro email me on the Dalriada, Janet has an extensive knowledge on Cranhill and surrounding area. .. The Dalriada Hotel on Edinburgh Road was not in Easterhouse. The front door was in Carntyne Road between Springboig and Carntyne. The Hotel had seven bedrooms this was the requirement for a 7 days licence. There were very few places opened on a Sunday. When the Dal was owned by Rio Stakis and was named by his friend Mr Phillips who was a French teacher at Cranhill Secondary School, it was named The Dalriada because that is what the Roman’s called this part on Scotland.
It was said the Dalriada had the longest bar in Scotland at one time. I worked in the Public Bar in 1974 as a bar-maid. The upstairs lounge could hold around 500 people and there was live music on every week-end and also during the week. Some great bands played in the Dal.
On a Sunday night the Public Bar was so crowded it was about 6 deep at the bar with men trying to order drinks. Many a time I told a man “If you want a pint find a glass.” Every Sunday night at least two boxes of pint glasses had to be opened so that drink could be served. In 1974 a pint of Tennents lager cost 2/6p.
Dalriada or Dál Riata (as it was called in Ireland) was the kingdom of the Scots who migrated from County Antrim in Ulster to Argyll and eventually gave their name to Scotland. Aidan mac Gabhráin who reigned from 574 to 608 as king of Dál Riata built a strong navy and waged aggressive war raiding as far as the Isle of Man and the Orkney Islands. He was less successful in land battles and lost the Battle of Degsastan in 603 to the Angles. The kingdom’s power in Ulster was greatly diminished by a decisive defeat by the O’Neill (Uí Néill) in 637 at the Battle of Mag Rath.
Thank to Cranhill arts project.
From then on the Dalriadans focused on their lands in Britain. Their rivals were the Picts to the north and the Angles of Bernicia to the east. On the south they were bordered by Strathclyde a British kingdom. Dunadd, in Argyll, was probably the seat of the kings of Dalriada. It has been excavated archaeologically and in addition to fortifications many moulds for the manufacture of jewellery were found. A census of Dalriada exists, the Senchus fer n’Alba.
Dalriada was conquered militarily by the Picts but eventually overwhelmed them culturally. Kenneth MacAlpin, a Dalriadan, was first King of the united Picts and Scots reigning from 840 to 857, as the king of Alba or Scotland. The Viking raids of the 10th century broke the sea communication between Ireland and Scotland and contact was lost with the western lands of Dál Riata, but not before the Stone of Scone was brought over.
Dalriada Hotel advert 1976.
Mr. J. M. Black was the manager of the Dalriada in 1976.
Entertainment in our lounge bar Monday – Saturday.
For good food, excellent service, come in and have a meal in our Steakhouse.
Fully Licensed.
Open 7 days a week. 11 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. – 5 p.m. to 11.30 p.m.
Enquiries Welcome for small weddings, parties, Etc –
Catering for up to 25 people –
Funerals up to 50 people.
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The Southern Bar.
60 Eglinton Street, corner of 2 Wallace Street, Glasgow. G5 9DE. Demolished.
The Southern Bar was situated at the corner of Eglinton Street and Wallace Street.
When a new tenement building was erected in 1873 at the corner of 60-62 Eglinton Street and 4 Wallace Street, William Craig was granted a licence to sell wine and spirits.
Mr Craig was already an established liquor merchant in Glasgow having premises at 52-54 West Street, Tradeston at the corner of Nelson Street; he also operated a licensed grocer’s (off sales) shop at 36 Pollok Street formerly owned by Thomas Bennett.
In 1889 he took over the pub at 15-17 Norfolk Street (Garry Owen) near to Gorbals Cross, at that time there were twelve pubs trading on Norfolk Street. William Craig came to Glasgow from Inchinan, Renfrew where he was born.
In 1881 he was living at Craigmiller, Nithsdale Road with his wife Janet and had a large family of three sons and three daughters. Also living with them was his father-in-law Robert Miller a retired Mercantile Clerk, along with his wife’s aunt Susan.
Mr Craig was making enough money in the licensed trade and could afford two domestic servants. When the Mr and Mrs Craig took over a beautiful villa in Nithsdale Road they named it Craigmiller after their surnames.
When the family moved to St John’s Road, Pollokshields they renamed this villa “Craigmiller”.
William was born in Inchinan in 1842. He came to Glasgow in 1862 and identified himself with the retail Trade, entering the service of Mr John Aitken, of Dalmoak, Dumbartonshire, in his public house in High Street. Mr Aitken was at that time one of the best known and highly esteemed members of the Trade in the city. He was one of the founders of the Benevolent Institution and was its second president, filling the chair in 1870 until his death.
After a time Mr Craig left Aitken’s employment and joined the staff of George Robin, remaining with that gentleman until January 1868, when he started business on his own account in West Street, Tradeston. In 1873 William took over new premises at 60-62 Eglinton Street “The Station Bar” formerly owned by Mr Robin since 1842. Mr Craig then acquired the Pollok Street establishment which he made his head-quarters. He then took over premises at Norfolk Street in 1889.
William Craig was heavily involved in all trade matters including the Benevolent Institution in 1876 and a member of the Board of Directors since 1892. He then carried out important work in the Institution’s Committees. He was also involved in the Pension’s Committee and was appointed vice-president in 1896. He was fortunate in having the unique experience of being president during the year of Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee, and of seeing the pensioners of the Institution suitably looked after.
Mr Craig was a member of the Incorporation of Coopers and of the Incorporation of Wrights. Of the former Incorporation he had the honour of being elected Deacon in 1889, and one year he was also Trades’ House representative on the Board of Governors of the Victoria Infirmary. He was a member of the Grocer Company. He was an enthusiastic bowler and was a representative of the Queen’s Park club which carried off the Eglinton cup in 1895. In later years Mr Craig had deserted bowling for Golf and enjoyed playing at Troon or Pollok course. He was a great swimmer and won the life-saving certificate of the Humane Society for plunging into the Clyde and saving a drowning child.
William Craig’s public houses and the grocers business was demolished many years age, West Street was demolished in the 1960s, Norfolk Street followed in the 70s, then owned by Michael Joseph Heraghty the well-known Garry Owen Bar, the Southern Bar was the last to survive and was demolished shortly afterwards.
The Cottage at the corner of Eglinton Street and Wallace Street. 1970s.
The Cottage. Thanks to Norrie McNamee for the images.
Facts…
Other licensees …
M Reuben 1977.
Donald J Grant 1973-1966.
Frederick W Miller 1960.
J N Murdock 1945.
James W Smith 1937.
A Smith 1934.
J W Whittot 1933.
T Quin 1923.
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