666-74 Garscube Road, Glasgow. G20.
New Springbank Cottage. 1991.
There been an old pub on this site since 1877.
During the 1960s and 70s this pub was known as the Planet Bar.
Planet Bar.
One of the owners James Taylor died in 1929.
666-74 Garscube Road, Glasgow. G20.
New Springbank Cottage. 1991.
There been an old pub on this site since 1877.
During the 1960s and 70s this pub was known as the Planet Bar.
Planet Bar.
One of the owners James Taylor died in 1929.
110-120 Garscadden Road, Glasgow. G15 6QG. Tel: 0141 944 6326.
The Peel. 1991.
Ossy Prosser and his wife were licensed grocers in Cambuslang before becoming one of the well known publicans in the city of Glasgow. Mr Prosser was heavily involved in the Scottish Burns Club. Over the years he owned the Picador the Peel and The Doublet. His wife named all three establishments. His last venture was the Old College Bar, High Street before he retired and moved to Spain.
Now called Murray Bridge. 2007.
also see The Peel, Drumchapel.
54 George Street, Glasgow.
The Marland Bar, George Street. 1959.
The Marland Bar was once one of the haunts for the folk singers in Glasgow that loved to sing in Glasgow pubs, but singing was band in those days.
There’s been a pub on this site since 1830.
This is from a great book called Cod Liver Oil and The Orange Juice, reminiscences of a fat folk singer, Hamish Imlach and Ewan McVicar…
Page 54-55…
There were lots of all-night parties, and SNP dos to go to. People drank in the Eagle Inn or the Dunrobin. Singing in pubs was illegal at the time, and eventually the Marland Bar became the undisputed place to drink in, because they’s allow illicit singing with the drinking.
One Saturday we were thrown out of the Queen’s Own pub, off George Square, for persistent singing. Usually we’d go into the Dunrobin, and mumble the words of the songs in one of the booths. This time we went along George Street, found the next pub along was crowded- it being nine o’clock on a Saturday night- and went into the following one, the Marland Bar. There was a back room, which we all crowded into, and managed to order a couple of rounds before nine-thirty closing time.
The only other people in the back room were an old gent and his wife and daughter. He was a wonderful Donegal singer called Paddy Tourish. I didn’t know him then, but I could see from the murals on the walls it was a Donegal pub- murals which had been done by a guy who had been paid in drink, and it showed. On a sloping counter lay a half crown which was in fact bolted from the bottom, put there to entice strangers into putting a hat over it and trying to scrape it oiff the bar.
I thought “What the hell”, and sang Boolavogue.
At Boolavogue, as the sun was setting
O’er the bright Mary meadows of Shemalier
A rebel band set the beather blazing
And brought the neighbours from far and near
And father Murphy, from old Kilcormack
Spurred up the rocks, with a warning cry
“To arms’, he cried, ‘For I come to lead you
For Ireland’s freedom we’ll fight or die”.
Far from throwing us out the owner, Christie McMenanin, came into the back room with a whisky for each of us. We’d found our place.
A week later, we were lashing into all the Rambling Boy songs, and the Tourish family were there again. Rosie the daughter, said ‘Ma da’s a great singer’. He protested ‘Oh, no, no, I only know old fashioned songs, I enjoy hearing you young lads singing, it’s great. To read more of this great book please buy it.
81 Gorbals Street, Gorbals, Glasgow.
McKellar’s Bar. 1960s.
Before the tenement building was erected and the old Gorbals two storey shops and businesses were here, there was a Victualler called Daniel Innes trading from this site in the 1850s.
When the tenement buildings were built the shop keepers occupied many of the shops on the ground floor. In the 1880s Alexander J Martin opened a public house here and served the locals until 1907.The pubs annul rent was £99. Mr Martin resided at 39 South Apsley Place, Gorbals.
The license was transfered to publican William Thomson in 1907, who kept the business going until the second World War. Mr Thomson was very successful also having pubs at 139 Camden Street and 183 Crownpoint Road in the east end of the city.
After the war Mr John McKellar took over the pub, McKellar’s was to become one of the best known pubs in the area, serving the locals with good quality liquor until it finally closed for demolition in the early 1970s. Mr McKellar was residing at 3 Kings Park Avenue in 1947.
In 1899 there was 12 public houses trading on Gorbals Street also known as Main STreet, Gorbals.
During the 1960s there was still a lot of pubs here, in fact 11 pubs which survived for more than 60 years.
815 Great Eastern Road, Gallowgate, Glasgow.
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.
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
5 Greendyke Street, Glasgow. Tel: 01415523909.
Moray Arms. 1991.
This popular bar dated from the late 1920s.
The Whistlin Kirk 2005.
The Whistlin Kirk, August 2005.
Sites of Interest near the Whistlin Kirk…
1. St Andrew’s by the Green, Episcopal Church, the Whistlin Kirk (1750). Names so because of its Kist (Chest) of whistles which was the church organ. The first of its kind in Glasgow.
2. Jocelyn Square, named after a Bishop of the same name and the founder of the Glasgow Fair, in 1190. It later became Jail Square and public hangings took place here where the bodies of those executed were buried on the site of the present Mortuary. A Dr Prichard, the last man to be hanged in public is buried there.
3. Clyde Street, on the side wall of the High Court is a plaque which shows the height The Great Flood of 1795 rose to. It was originally called Horse Brae.
4. 132-5 Trongate is the site of the bookshop owned by Daniel McMillan a forebear of past Prime Minister Harold McMillan.
5. The Saltmarket, originally called Waulkergate, clothes workers or waulkers as they were called lived here. It adopted its present name when a market was established to sell salt for curing salmon. In 1718 James Duncan had a print shop here and he introduced the art of typemaking to the city and then in 1896 a Celtic Football Club, footballer named Willie Maley had a “Football and athletic clothes outfitters.”
6. Turnbull Street, names after another Bishop of 1450 and contained the famous Tent Hall at the corner of Steel Street, an Evangelical meeting place and site of free breakfasts for the poor. The graveyard at the corner of Greendyke Street contains many old stones, look out for one of a Mr & Mrs W Sutherland who drowned when a steamboat was run down.
7. St Andrew’s Street, The Tontine Hotel who’s building is still standing was really a model lodging house for men only, named after an earlier one, this down market lodge had cubicles to sleep in and a communal hot plate for cooking.
8. Greendyke Street, the very first model was built here at no 49 in 1849. It was rebuilt in 1876 and the prices were one shilling and sixpence (13p) per night for a lower bunk or a weekly rate of ten shillings and sixpence (53p). A small Penny Geggle, fit up theatre, stood in this street and later became a clothes market controlled towards the end by the Glasgow Corporation.
9. Bridgegate, the road or gait to the bridge at Stockwell Street was at one time considered a very posh address but became run down by the influx of squatters and families from Ireland. Robert Carrick established the Ship Bank here in 1750. Glasgow’s very first bank.
10. St Andrew’s Square. In 1785 this was the site of a balloon launching by Italian balloonist Lunardi, it passed over the Glasgow Green watched by an amazed crowd of thousands and landed over 70 odd miles away. The present church was completed in 1756 and it was based on the design of St Martin in the fields church in London. The block of flats at no2 was originally the quarters night shelter for homeless children. In Sir Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy, the ficticious Glasgow Magistrate Baillie Nicol Jarvie describes, “Aw the comforts of the Sautmarket,” and many comforts it certainly had going by the class of people who have stayed there such as Oliver Cromwell, King James VII and Glasgow’s first Lord Provost Ales with the passing of time it became a home for the Fairs and many drinking dens.
From A Smart Alex Publication.