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Great Eastern Road

The Caledonian Wine & Spirit Vaults

August 15, 2017 by John Gorevan Leave a Comment

 

68 Great Eastern Road, Glasgow.

 

The old Caledonian Wine and Spirit Vaults was a prominent site in Camlachie, it was situated across from Stevenson Taylor’s Vaults at the Camlachie Institute. The Caledonian Vaults was an old fashioned tavern, the proprietor lived on the premises in its early history.

During the 1840s cowfeeder and spirit dealer William McNicol was the landlord, Willie was a well-known character in Camlachie, when the circus came to Vinegar Hill all the pubs in the area were packed. Old Willie sold up in the early part of the 1850s. He was followed by William Willox, Issac Stewart then in 1879 James McConnell acquired the business.

James McConnell was a well respected wine and spirit merchant in the east end of the city, his wife Margaret took over the business in 1897 as one of the trustees of his estate for her late husband. She had a long title, being married a few times, she was known at the licensed courts as Margaret Flynn or McConnell or Murphy. She became licensee of several pubs in the east end including The Springfield Vaults, 743-49 London Road, the Mill Vaults, 122 Millburn Street, the Waverley Bar, 37 Preston Street at the corner of Bernard Street.

Margaret prospered during her years as a landlady, the old Caledonian Wine & Spirit Vaults were finally closed down by the magistrates, as it was very old and in desperate need of renovation, they said the the place was falling down under your feet and the premises should be blown up, it would have been cheaper to demolish the building rather than refurbished it. It was closed in 1921.

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The White House Inn

March 27, 2017 by John Gorevan Leave a Comment

820 Great Eastern Road, Parkhead, Glasgow.

White House Inn

The White House Inn, Great Eastern Road, now Tollcross Road.

The White House Inn, Shinty Ha’, Parkhead, c 1905.
Shinty Ha’ was the name given to a row of red tiled cottages which stood in the Great Eastern Road at Parkhead. One of these cottages was said to have been the last home in which handloom weaving was carried on in Parkhead, perhaps even the last in Glasgow. Thanks to the Mitchell Library.

In the 1850s the White House Inn was occupied by George Gourlay. One half of the shop was a licensed grocer’s business and the other a public house, Mr Gourlay had a licence to sell porter and spirits. There was a lane that ran behind this building called Elizabeth Place, many of the buildings in this area had similar names attached to the premises, like one of the tenements further along the road where the Tavern is today, if you look up you will see Hill Park Place on the building even though the property is on the main road.

There was another spirit dealer trading from Elizabeth Place in the 1850s and 60s called Alexander Eadie. Business must have been difficult as there was competition nearby, the Bowler’s Rest owned by Hugh Montgomery was on one side and the Burnbank Tavern owned by John Orr was on the other side of the inn, there was also licensed grocers businesses nearby.

When George passed away his son John took over the business, he was already established as a saddler and a harness maker, probably from the premises at the rear of the inn. John lived next door to the old inn with his wife Mary and their three sons George, John and Robert. Business must have been good as the family could afford a domestic servant. When John died his wife Mary took over the running of the business and let the property to James Anderson at a rent of £29.00 per annum.

William Anderson another member of the family took over the licence in 1897 until the end of WW1, the rent had then doubled in price, he was refused the licence in 1921 as a result in minor charges against him. His wife Susan then acquired the licence but the inn was closed the following year and never opened again as a public house, the property lay derelict for many years afterwards before it was finally demolished.

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Moray Arms

March 6, 2017 by John Gorevan Leave a Comment

815 Great Eastern Road, Gallowgate, Glasgow.

Moray Arms

The Moray Arms was situated next door to the old General Wolfe Inn, Camlachie, Gallowgate. The ground at the back of this pub was called Vinegarhill, the famous east end show ground, where the Carnival and Fair was held. The new Forge shopping outlet now occupies the site of Vinegarhill.

This old pub dated back to the 1860s and probably even earlier, over the years it has been known under many different names. In the 1880s James M Smith the proprietor called it The Goal Post Bar, the name coming from the fact that Celtic Park was nearby.

Another well known wine & spirit merchant to have this pub was Duncan Dunbar Kellie, he renamed it the Moray Arms. He also had another pub in nearby Broad Street also called the Moray Arms. Mr Kellie blended his own whisky, one of them was a favourite of the folk in Camlachie called the Moray Dew. When Duncan died in the early 1900s his wife Elizabeth took control of this thriving business, however it was to much for her in the end and had to give up the licence.

Donald Cameron McMillan took over the pub in 1911 paying an annul rent of £49.00 to the owner an ex-publican Gray Edmiston. Mr McMillan continued as licensee until the end of the First World War when the pub was closed for good and demolished along with the old General Wolfe Inn.

Moray Arms drawing

An old drawing of the Moray Arms.

See other view’s of the Moray Arms, click here.

To read more on the pubs on the Gallowgate read up & Doon the Gallowgate by John Gorevan. A copy can be bought for a few pounds at the Hielan Jessie on the Gallowgate or contact me at john@oldglasgowpubs.co.uk

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George Honeyman Farmer’s Vaults

January 16, 2017 by John Gorevan Leave a Comment

615 Great Eastern Road, Gallowgate, Glasgow.

Farmers Vaults

George Honeyman Farmer’s Vaults.

George Honeyman Farmer’s Vaults was the last pub on the Gallowgate. Situated at the corner of Great Eastern Road as it was called then, and New Road now called Duke Street.

To read the full history of this popular east end howff Click here.

When the pub was demolished a new tenement building with a public house on the ground floor was erected on the same site, the new name of the pub was the Oak Bar.

Mr George Honeyman Farmer

Mr George Honeyman Farmer. 1894.

Oak Bar

The Oak Bar.

To read more on the pubs on the Gallowgate read up & Doon the Gallowgate by John Gorevan. A copy can be bought for a few pounds at the Hielan Jessie on the Gallowgate or via our online store.

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