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Visions

January 25, 2017 by John Gorevan Leave a Comment

577 Gallowgate, Glasgow. G40 2PE. Tel: 01415546269.

Visions. 1991.

This was a short lived pub on the Gallowgate, it is now called Haughian’s and only open’s when the football season is on when Celtic and Rangers are playing.

Haughian’s photo taken August 2005.

The pub had a refurbishment in 2008 and is now called Hagie’s Bar.

Haggie's Bar Gallowgate

Hagie’s Bar. 2009.

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]

The Harmony Bar

January 25, 2017 by John Gorevan 1 Comment

881 Govan Road, Glasgow. G51 3DN.Tel: 0141 237 4806.

Harmony Bar. 1991.

Well known and respected publican John Gow better known as Jack owned these premises during the 1960s.

Glasgow’s New President. 1970.

George Grier, third from the left, accepts chain of office from Donald MacLean. Watching are Peter Smith, Jack Gow, John Flynn, George Ramster, secretary, and Jimmy Milne, honorary member. 1970.

Jack Gow was chairman of the Scottish Licensed Trade Veto Defence Fund.

The Harmony bar was called the Beauty Parlour by the locals and had its own snug for the ladies.

Thanks to David Feeney.

Mrs Anna Mulheron is the licensee 2015.

The Griffin

January 25, 2017 by John Gorevan 1 Comment

Wines & Spirits.

244 Garscube Road, Glasgow.

There has been a pub on this site since at least 1882. The occupier John MacLachlan of G & J MacLachlan of the Castle Vaults and Castle Blend of Scotch Whisky, also owned a public house on Park Road called the Blythswood Cottage.

Mr MacLachlan continued to run this pub until 1905 when he gave up the business to concentrate on his other establishment in Park Road.

John Griffin then took over the pub, he ran another establishment on Hospital Street on the south side of the city, which became known as the Turf Bar. The locals called it the Griffin.

The Griffin.

As one can imagine, when you have a pub next to your close, you had to pass old winey’s on your way up the stairs, this wasn’t as bad, as, most nights you had to pass many of these drunkin bums pissin up the walls. It must have been a chore for the ladies washing the closes the following morning if they ever got cleaned at all.

The Griffin family continued to serve the locals in the Garscube Road establishment until it was demolished in the 1970s.

Licence Holders.

1976-1960 Miss Mary margaret Monica Griffin.

1937 Mary Elliot Griffin.

1919-1905 John Griffin.

1904-1882 John MacLachlan.

The New Camp Bar

January 25, 2017 by John Gorevan 5 Comments

529 Garscube Road corner of 2 Camperdown Street, Glasgow.

The New Camp Bar. 1970s.

There has been a public house on this spot since the 1860s. One of the first names this pub had was the Oakbank Spirit Vaults, the pub was situated next to the Oakbank School at the corner of Barr Street intersects as it was then known.

Mr H Robertson was proprietor in 1863 and traded at number 343 Garscube Road, the numbering of the street changed through time. By the 1870s wine and spirit merchant John Peacock was landlord and served the locals until 1901. Mr Peacock was a good businessman he also owned pubs at 64 North Woodside Road corner of 64 Lyon Street and the Old Basin Vaults, 58 Old Basin which he took over in 1886. John Peacock owned the premises on Garscube Road and sold up in 1901.

Another prominent figure in the Scottish Licensed Trade John Higgie then took over the pub. Mr Higgie lived at 6 Doune Gardens before moving to 2 Oxford Drive in Kelvinside in 1903. John Higgie was also a traveller for the Greenhead Brewery and in 1909 became one of the directors of Steel, Coulson. Ltd., the other director was Simon Cameron. Mr Higgie ran the Oakbank Spirit Vaults until the end of the First World War.

In the 1930s Archibald Hay was running the pub with the help of his wife, Archibald died in 1933, his wife then took over the running of the business and continued as licensee until the 1960s.

Many will remember this old pub as the Camperdown Bar and the New Camp Bar which was run by Murdoch MacKenzie until the pub was demolished in the that 70s.

Allan Rough famed Scottish Goalkeeper owned this pub for a while and renamed it the Goal Post Bar.

Alan Rough’s Bar, the Goal Post Advert.

Alan Rough got his training in a well-known city centre pub.

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In the NEWS 1979…

If ALAN drops a clanger…

It might have been a nightmare at Hampden last night for Scotland goalkeeper Alan Rough, but brother Dough showed today that at least the family are keeping their sense of humour.

Dough is the look-alike relative who runs Alan’s pub in Maryhill and he is getting just a bit fed up with fans coming in and asking for his autograph. So he decided to make it clear that he is his own man, and not the player who one his record equalling 28th cap for Scotland against Austria.

Scotland, if you haven’t heard by now, dropped a vital point in the European Championship match they really had to win to give them a real chance of qualifying for the finals in Rome, and it was a goal keeping blunder by Rough which cost Scotland a point.

BRAVE

And to make Alan’s night worse, he chose to turn up at his pub last night just as the match came up on Television. Said brother Dough, pictured above as he looked at a shot of the Hans Krankl goal which followed Alan’s boob, “It certainly was an unfortunate time to come in for him.

“He had to take a lot of stick from the regulars when they saw the Austrian goal. I felt sorry for him, but he has been brave and honest enough to admit the blame. What more can he do?”

Dough, however, has no sympathy for the twist of nature which made him a dead ringer for the Partick Thistle man who is only one match away from becoming Scotland’s most capped keeper.

“It has been going on for ages,” he said. “And I must say it does get boring after a while. People keep asking me for my autograph when they come into the pub for the first time.

“But I suppose I will have to put up with it.”

Do you remember this pub. If so please get in touch.

Pie Orr’s

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467 Gallowgate, Glasgow. G40 2EG. Demolished.

The Cattle Market Luncheon Bar. 1931. Thanks to the Mitchell Library.

Pie Orr’s was situated near to the corner of Bellgrove Street.

This was originally Pie Orr’s founded by pastry baker William Orr in 1889.

Over the years these licensed premises have enlarged and the name above the door has also changed from William Orr’s to the Cattle Market Bar, Luncheon Bar and the Grove.

In 1889 William Orr took over the old and historic restaurant at 467 Gallowgate. Situated near the meat market and Bellgrove Street, this was once the best place in the east end of the city to dine and have a drink. William Orr named his new restaurant come pub the “Cattle Market Luncheon Bar”, he decorated his place with flowers, casks, bottles, crystal and richly framed pictures.

Mr William Orr. 1891.

The restaurant was unique in the east end as it was the only establishment where the business was a licensed house and a restaurant combined. Mr Orr had a reputation for his excellent pie’s, 50 dozen pies where served over the counter on a Saturday, locals soon adopted a name for the place “Pie Orr’s” a name that stuck for almost 70 years.

William was assisted with his wife and daughters. Coffee, tea and pastry was supplied at all hours.

The Grove. 1934. Thanks to the Mitchell Library.

A large room was set aside for wedding parties. The name changed to the Grove restaurant when the meat market moved to Duke Street, Houston’s furniture store expanded and took over the restaurant in the late 1950s. William Orr’s premises was pushed further east, Houston’s expanded even further and finally took over all the neighbouring shop.

New flats now occupy the site of this once famous resting place

Facts…

There haves been pastry bakers trading on the site of Pie Orr’s since as early as 1847.

License Holders.

1847 Andrew Scott.

1851 William Kelly.

1854 Archibald McLean.

1863 Robert McLeish.

1867 Mrs Ann McLeish.

1889-1937 William Orr.

Do you remember this old pub? If so please leave a comment.

The Grange

January 25, 2017 by John Gorevan Leave a Comment

1023 Gallowgate, Glasgow.

This old Gallowgate pub has been closed for many years now. Not long before it closed down I gave it a visit, it was probably the only bar in the city of Glasgow that had an iron shutter at the bar counter separating the customer from the barman.

The history of this old pub can be traced back to 1853 when Samuel Wellwood was running the pub. Janet then Elizabeth Wellwood continued to run the pub until the 1880s.

By the end of the 1890s John Armstrong was serving the locals here paying an annul rent of £75.00. His wife took over the licence after his death and continued in the business till the 1920s.

In 1926 Patrick Strain took over the licence from Mr Lawrie. Patrick was born in 1883, he took over a small pub in Milton Street, Cowcaddens in 1909. He expanded his small empire by taking over another pub in North Street then opened Strain’s in the Cowcaddens this pub was renamed by the family to the Grange. Another Grange was opened on the Gallowgate in the east end of the city by the family in 1926.

Mr & Mrs Strain’s son Raymond was a well known figure in the Scottish Licensed Trade he started out working part time in the family business, after his father’s death Mrs Strain took over as licensee, Raymond then managed his mothers pub in the Cowcaddens.

Raymond was married in 1961 to Catherine Treanor, her father was a well known figure in the licensed trade in the south side of the city. The wedding took place at St. Aloysius Chapel. Raymond was secretary of the Glasgow Vintners Association.

Strain’s Bar in Cowcaddens 1930s.

The Grange, Cowcaddens. 1960s.

The wedding day of Patrick Strain’s Daughter 1947.

In this prize winners group photograph was taken at the dinner dance and presentation of prizes held by the Glasgow Vintners’ Golf Section in the Grosvenor Restaurant. Left to right… Mr G McEntee, vice-president, Express Bar, winner of the Coronation Cup, presented by Joseph Dunn; D Ferrie, secretary, Bells Bar, winner of the Younger Putter; Ian Kennedy, captain, Morven Bar, winner of the McCall and Pringle Cup; Peter Smith, holding the Calder Rose Bowl on behalf of the winner, Raymond Strain; A Hanlon jun., with the McEwan Shield, won by his father, A V Hanlon, licensed grocer, Govan; R Mahan, Lomond Lounge, Lambhill, winner of the White Horse Cup; B McLaughlin, Town Tavern, Rutherglen, winner of the Vintners’ Tankard. 1962.

Visions

The Harmony Bar

The Griffin

Licence Holders.

1976-1960 Miss Mary margaret Monica Griffin.

1937 Mary Elliot Griffin.

1919-1905 John Griffin.

1904-1882 John MacLachlan.

The New Camp Bar

Pie Orr’s

Facts…

There haves been pastry bakers trading on the site of Pie Orr’s since as early as 1847.

License Holders.

1847 Andrew Scott.

1851 William Kelly.

1854 Archibald McLean.

1863 Robert McLeish.

1867 Mrs Ann McLeish.

1889-1937 William Orr.

The Grange

Licence Holders.

1973 Neil Francis Carlin.

1972 Jessie McLean.

1926 Patrick Strain.

1921 Mrs Smithia Armstrong.

1899 John Armstrong.

1880 MRS Elizabeth Wellwood.

1858 Janet Wellwood.

1853 Samuel Wellwood.