61-65 Glassford Street, Glasgow, G1 1UB.
Peckham’s. Glassford Street. 2009.
Peckham’s has five establishments in Glasgow, 1 in Kirkintilloch, 1 in Lenzie and 3 in Edinburgh. Peckham’s sits on the corner of Glassford Street and Wilson Street.
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Old Whitefield Bar
457-59 Govan Road, Glasgow.
The Old Whitefield Bar, (Russell’s Bar).
There has been a pub on this site from the early 1870s.
The first owner of this popular Govan Road pub was Mr Francis Lochrane, who’s father was also a wine and spirit merchant trading at 9 Plantation Street. Francis resided at 2 Walmer Crescent in 1871 before moving to better accommodation 2 Cecil Place, Paisley Road.
In 1875 Francis Lochrane was a wine merchant and Strauraisse Quarry, (not known what this is), at 8 MacLean Street and lived at 2 Cecil Place, Paisley Road.
Interior View of the Old Whitefield Bar, with manager and head-Barman on the right.
In 1880, apart from being a wine merchant, Francis was a house proprietor and Land Factor at 6 MacLean Street.
Business was good and by 1890 Francis had already expanded his bussiness, having a licensed grocer office and store at 2-4 and 6 Eaglesham Street, a public house at Plantation Building, Govan Road, and Family Grocers at 105 Allison Street, and was now residing at 12 Campside Crescent, Langside.
After Mr Francis Lochrane’s death his wife Marie took over the running of the business. By 1919 Marie Lochrane was paying £120 per annum in rent for the Whitefield Bar also having pubs at 132-34 Blackburn Street, another pub at 71 Govan Road and 2-6 Eaglesham Street.
The Lochrane family gave up the trade in 1933. John Russell then became the new licensee. John’s wife Marie was also well-known in the licensed trade. In 1950 John’s wife Elizabeth Shaw Templeton Barclay Philip Russell was licensee, what a very long name. It is said that Mrs Russell ruled with an iron fist. All the gangsters of the day were shit scared of her!
The Russell family continued to serve the locals here until 1960. The last licensee was Patrick C Scouler.
Derelict building with the Old Whitefield Bar, Govan Road at the corner of Whitefield Street.
Old Stag Inn
12 Greenview Street, Glasgow. G43 1SN. Tel: 01416324439.
The Old Stag Inn. 1991.
The Old Govan Arms
907 Govan Road, Glasgow. G51.
Old Govan Arms. 1991.
Once owned by Celtic fame Thomas Colgan in 1916.
Old Govan Arms. 2011.
Licence Holders.
1973-1963 Raymond James Donnelly.
1960-1937 John Donnelly.
1919-1899 Thomas Colgan.
1898 Daniel Docherty.
The Old Canteen Bar
436-38 Gallowgate, corner of Lambert Street, Glasgow.
There has been licensed premises on this site since at least 1847. Mr & Mrs Stenhouse ran a Tea, Wine & Spirit business from here in the late 1840s and continued to do so for many years.
When the old premises were demolished a new tenement of flats and a pub on the ground floor was erected in 1876 a new landlord Mr Mattew Riddell took over. The Riddell family were well established on the Gallowgate from as early as the 1820s as spirit merchants and grain merchants. Their grain store was only 2 door away from their pub at 446 Gallowgate, many well remember this old shop in the 1970s as J R Dalziel (Castings) Ltd, sausage skin merchants.
The Old Canteen Bar on the left along Lambert Street.
The Riddell family traded first traded as Victuallers and Hay Dealers and traded as John Riddell & Sons from as early as the 1850s. In 1897 John Riddell & Sons traded at 10 Lambert Street as Hay, Staw, Grain, Seed and Manure Merchants. The sons Matthew lived at 7 Westercraigs in Dennistoun, apart from running the pub he was a partner in the family business with Robert and Daniel. Generations of the same family continued to run the family business well after the 1930s, by that time Alexander and James were the main partners.
Matthew Riddell died in 1896, the licence was then transferred to his sons Matthew and John as partners.
In 1918 Matthew Riddell and his shopman William Murray were each fined £2.00 at the Sheriff Court, for having on 20th May at 2pm allowed treating on the premises. Mr Riddell was not present when the offence was committed. The Barman went down to the cellar to screw off beer and the shopman took the money from the customer.
In 1927 Alexander Riddell, the licensee sold the business to Daniel McVeigh, Alexander gave up the licence to devote more time to the grain business on the Gallowgate.
Another well known publican to own the Old Canteen Bar was John Wintergill, he started out with his mother in premises on Garscube Road. To read more on John Wintergill keep an eye out for our second book here.
For the sixth time running, the Old Canteen Bar have won the local Guinness Darts League. Des McFarlane right, area representative for Guinness, presenting the Shield to team captain Jimmy Miller. 1969. In the centre is Davie Lamont, his daughter May now works in the Hielan Jessie. Do you know anyone in this image. If so please get in touch.
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Customers of the Old Canteen Bar, Gallowgate, setting out on a bus run to Dunbar, this was a regular event during the summer months with many Glasgow pubs, the bus always left from outside the premises on a Sunday morning as pubs in the city didn’t open on the Sabbath. Mr & Mrs McBride in the center of the photo kneeling down. 1951.
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 [email protected]
Licence Holders.
1975-1960 John Walker Kerr Wintergill.
1959-1951 Mr J A McBride.
1947 Edward Lavelle.
1937 John A Aitken.
1930s-1927 Daniel McVeigh.
1927 Alexander Riddell.
1921 Daniel Riddell.
1919-1896 Matthew Riddell.
1896-1876 Matthew Riddell.
1854 Mrs Stenhouse.
1850 Mr Stenhouse.
1849 Mrs Stenhouse.
1847 George Fisher.
New Normal Bar
32 Great Western Road, Glasgow.
The New Normal Bar, 32 Great Western Road, after the great fire 1972.
Owner Jimmy Hargan opened this pub after his old premises were demolished, the Normal Bar at number 5 New City Road, and called his new bar “The New Normal Bar” at the start of Great Western Road near the junction of St. Georges’ Cross. The pub was demolished along with the tenement building after a great fire.
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In the NEWS November 1972…
Demand for greater precautions after big fire…
Mrs Nancy Ballantyne, convener of Glasgow Corporation police and fire committee, has called for a co-ordination committee to deal with all aspects of fire fighting after a tenement fire on Saturday in which a fireman died trying to rescue a woman, who also died, and 31 other persons were injured.
Twenty-seven firemen have lost their lives in the past 12 years fighting fires in the city. Another councillor, Bailie Albert Long, has called for a full investigation by corporation officials to see if all proper fire precautions were taken.
Mrs Ballantyne’s request is made in a letter which she will hand to Mr William Gray, the Lord Provost, today. In the letter, she will ask that special attention should be paid to all disused property, particularly empty shops beneath occupied tenements.
The fireman who died on Saturday, Sub-Officer Adrian McGill, was said yesterday to have sacrificed his life trying to save the woman, who was trapped on the top floor of a burning tenement in Maryhill Road, Glasgow.
DEMOLITION
The woman, Mrs Alice Mulgrew, aged 48, died after she was brought down from a narrow ledge outside her home by other firemen. In her letter, Mrs Ballantyne refers to the fact that Sub-Officer McGill is the eighth fireman to die this year in fires in the city, seven have died at a warehouse fire in Kilbirnie Street in August.
She will ask the Lord Provost to consider what steps might be taken to have all derelict propery demolished, to have special precautions taken where shops stood empty beneath occupied tenements to ensure the safetly of firemen and the safe entry of fire-fighting vehicles through narrow lanes which were sometimes blocked by cars.
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