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The Waverley, Crow and the Clarence Hotels.

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George Square, Glasgow.

Image of the Waverley Globe and Clarence Hotels George Square
Waverley Hotel.

This images shows the west side of George Square and St Vincent Place, with the Waverley, Crow and Clarence Hotels. The first tow hotels were demolished to make way for the Headquarters of the Bank Of Scotland in the late 1860s. All the buildings in the image were replaced between 1850 and 1906, for the best, the replacements were superior to the originals.

When the Bank of Scotland was being erected, part of the Crow was taken down, but the landlord, with a petty wit, put up a placard, “A wing of the Crow still open.” On either side of the entrance was a large zinc plate, with a crow with outspread wings.

Facts…

All the fashionable hotels were mainly centred in George Square. The Wellington, Star, Caledonia, Royal Horse, Franklin, James Watt, Sir John Moore, Old Royal Hotel and McDonalds’ Private Hotel , the Waverley, Crow, Clarence, Globe, Imperial (which became the L & N.E. Parcel Office), Queen’s, Royal and George, while at no. 16 there was a somewhat unpretentious hostel named “The Noddy Drivers’ Eating House.”

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The Clady Bar

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108-10 Govan Street now Ballater street, Glasgow. G5 0TW. Demolished.

Clady Bar. 1960’s.

This 1960s photograph was taken shortly before it was demolished.

There has been a pub on this site since 1834, probably a two storey building with the licensed premises on the ground floor and living accommodation above. Landlord Robert McFarlane, wine & spirit merchant owned the business from that time until around 1851.

Image of the Clady Bar Ballater Street 1960s
Close-up of the Clady Bar. 1960s.

Mr William Kirkwood then took over the running of the pub. He resided with his family at 31 Florence Street before moving to Gallowflat Place, Wardlawhill then to 172 Main Street, Rutherglen. When Mr Kirkwood passed away his wife had no alternative but to run the business as she had a family to look after, she occupied the premises for around ten years before selling up.

In 1898 David Blanche took over, he continued to serve the locals here until the end of the First World War.

From 1920 till 1958 the pub was run by publican Cameron Dey before Magnus O’Donnell took over, who was the last licensee to occupy the premises before it was demolished, just like all the rest of the old pubs in the Gorbals.

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The Cellar Bar

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80 Glassford Street, Glasgow. G1 1UR.

Image of Jim Slavin manager of the Cellar Bar 1970
Jim Slavin. 1970.

The Cellar Bar was part of the Glassford Hotel, at the corner of Wilson Street. also see Traders Bar.

The Hallmark of having arrived as a collector is when your advice is sought as an authority on your speciality.

This is what happened to manager Jim Slavin, of the Cellar Bar, Glassford Street, Glasgow, where the collection of neckties had made him sufficiently qualified for the police to seek his aid in an assault case.

The victim was a young woman who was able to describe her attacker’s tie- a single motif one- accurately enough for a police artist to draw it and then have C.I.D. men check with Jim to see if he could identify it.

However, it wasn’t one which young Jim- he was 23 years of age then, had been involved with ties for only two years at the time of the inquiry- had come across in his time.

The Glassford Hotel, which housed the Cellar Bar, was opened in December, 1965, and the tie collection was started the following year by Jim and his bar colleague, Jim McIntyre, aided by the winning ways of the girls behind the bar when they noticed a tie new to them.

Actually, it’s only the back end of the tie which is snipped off so that the customer still had enough tie to wear if it’s his favourite and he is prepared to assist the collection. Some, of course, were so pleased to be asked that they gave the complete tie.

The tie gathering had increased steadily since the start and Jim’s catalogue lists 370 examples of neckwear in the Cellar Bar collection. First entry in the book’s alphabet was Ayr Technical College and the last was Yorkshire Union of Golf Clubs… so there’s was room for a Zoological Society member’s tie.

The tie rack covered a whole spectrum of clubs, schools, the services and trades. The rarest among the Forces’ representation was the Royal Flying Corps tie (sent by a customer from St. Albans, Hertfordshire); Marylebone Cricket Club was the most uncommon sports example, and the Asparagus Club tie, belonged to a gourmet group from Cambridge University was in the same category for the clubs.

The military side was well represented in the collection, with the Brigade of Guards tie holding the square alongside the Inns of Court Regiment, and the Fourteenth was not the Forgotten Army here as it was central in position.

There was also a minor ecumenical movement on display, with the Central Catholic Club of Ireland tie hanging near the Orange Lodge of Belfast.

With it’s specialised interest it’s only natural that the Cellar Bar should have a distinctive tie of it’s own and Jim- who wore the West of Scotland U. K. Bartenders’ Guild tie, he also had a dozen pink pig ties made up for his regular customers… presumably those he knows well enough to realise they won’t object to this group emblem!

In the News 1971…

The Pub is generally recognised as man’s domain, but in recent weeks there is one place in Glasgow that is more interested in women. It is the Glassford Hotel in Glassford Street. Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in their Cellar Bar they run a lighthearted contest lighthearted that is to everyone except the contestants, looking for the best Go-Go girls of the night. The contest is part of the Light Fantastic Discotheque run by disc jockey Allan Kay.

As a novelty Allan picks one girl a night as the best Go-Go dancer and the girl gets a long playing record as her prize. It might not be everyone’s scene, but at least it is different. Incidentally, there is no admission charge to the discotheque.

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Camperdown Bar.

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529 Garscube Road corner of 2 Camperdown Street, Glasgow. G20 7LD. Demolished.

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.

Alan 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.

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.”

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The Cross Bar

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1287 Gallowgate, Glasgow. G31 4DR. Demolished.

The Cross Bar. 1980s.

Opened in 1866 by Glasgow brewer George Dalrymple. Mr Dalrymple owned the Home Brewery on Great Eastern Road now called the Gallowgate. Afterwards he and his family went into the retail wine and spirit trade opening pubs on the Gallowgate, Great Eastern Road, Trongate, Stanley Street, Main Street, Pollokshaws, Langside Road, New Road now Duke Street. Mr George Dalrymple has been trading since 1855 on the Trongate and Saltmarket before moving to the Gallowgate and Great Eastern Road.

Over the years the pub has had name changes, for over 70 years the pub was known locally as Dalrymple’s, in the 1930s the pub became known as the Grove after the owner John Cosgrove and before it was demolished to make way for the new Parkhead Forge the name above the doorway was the Cross Bar.

In the NEWS 1978…

JUST OLD FIRM FRIENDS…

Football fan’s at “The Cross Bar” 1978.

We’re the best of pals, say members of the Helenvale Celtic and the Cross Rangers supporters’ clubs in the Cross Bar, Parkhead.

Fans Support Charity…

This is an “Old Firm” pub. It’s not just for Rangers fans or for Celtic supporters, but for both. The Cross Bar, Gallowgate, Glasgow, acts as the head-quarters for the two rival supporters’ clubs.

Every year they work together to raise a considerable amount of money for the East Park Home for Infirm Children. The two sets of staunch fans support their teams in harmonious rivalry.

The friendship shared between the 56-strong Rangers supporters and the 82 Celts is best summed up by Rangers secretary Joe Hobbs (30).

He put it this way, “There’s no bigotry in this pub at all. And there’s no reason why Rangers and Celtic fans shouldn’t share the same pub.

MATCH

“Our pub belongs to both sets of fans. “We meet in here before the game tomorrow and leave in our separate buses to go to the match at about 12 noon. We’ll be back at night to talk about the game.

“I’ll be having a drink as I always do with George Jardine, secretary of the Celtic supporters’ Club. George (45) said, “The violence at Rangers- Celtic matches is disgusting. I wish both sides would get together and share the pleasure of football.

TOGETHER

“We all get on great with the Rangers fans. “There’s only two types of people in the world. The ones you like and the ones you don’t like. Religion doesn’t come into it.

“It would be ideal if we could all go to the big game on the same bus. We used to go together and stand together. But that was a few years back.

“In today’s atmosphere you couldn’t do that. “There’s no division here. I have visited Joe’s home and he has been to mine. Yet we are both loyal supporters of the different teams.”

George added, “I hope people will see that it is possible to have a drink with the opposite side and not degenerate into violence. “The violence must stop because it is definitely chasing supporters, the good ones, away from the game.”

The rival groups agreed that the true friendship shared over a wee half and a pint meant that there has never been a fight in the Cross Bar over football. Sure, they admit, we’ll argue about disputed penalties, refs decisions, and off-side decisions, but “It’ll be a great night in our pub… win lose or draw.”

The Cross Bar with the Reekie Linn in the background. 1970s.

HATRED

The regulars in this Old Firm friendship pub regret that the big game has such a bad name. It’s supposed to be a great sporting occasion. But as always there is the fear of hatred breaking out into violence.

The result is a bus strike by drivers in protest against violence and vandalism. The match of course, used to be played on New Years Day. That was changed to avoid the combination of celebration drinks and hatred.

POLICE

And of course it’s a 1 p.m. kick-off again to prevent too much alcohol being taken before the game. There will be extra police, boarded-up shops and sadly fear not friendship will stalk certain areas of the city.

There is however a message of friendship from the Cross Bar. “We drink together and we stay on the best of terms.”

Cross Bar. Thanks to Chris Doak.

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]

Facts…
Licence Holders.
1976 A McPherson.
1972 James Irvine.
1961 W J Burns.
1960 G Greig.
1957 J McGill.
1937 John Cosgrove.
1928-1900 Mary Dalrymple.
1899 William Dalrymple.
1893-1866 George Dalrymple.

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Old Tavern

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171 Great Hamilton Street, Glasgow. G40. Demolished.

Old Tavern. c 1916. Thanks to Mitchell Library.

This old Tavern was situated at the corner of Great Hamilton Street now London Road and Craignestock Street. There has been licensed premises here since 1845. The first licensee was wine and spirit merchant Robert McIssac.

I am not sure of the name of this old Tavern, however it was a very old one. In 1866 Bowman Miller was trading from here. Bowman lived next door from the pub. He served the locals until 1888.

 William H Parker took over in 1889, William was not new to the trade as he was licensee of a public house at 155 Graeme Street now Bell Street since 1885. Mr Parker’s public house in Bell Street sat at the corner of St John’s Place and next to St John’s Church. Mr & Mrs William Parker lived at 65 Great Hamilton Street a little west from his pub on London Road.

William H Parker’s wife Margaret took over the as licensee of both pubs in 1896 possibly as her husband concentrated on his other business as a Telegraph Office and Newsagent at 174 Great Hamilton Street which was across the road from the pub. William, Margaret and family were now living at Monteith Row an exclusive address in those days, so business was good. Margaret continued as licensee just before the First World War. By this time the pub on Graeme Street was closed down.

The pub and the tenement building was demolished in 1916. The Parker family ceased to trade and the business across the road was also closed. It wasn’t until 1920 that son John B Parker acquired a licence at new premises at 171 Great Hamilton Street.  In 1928 the address was changed to 431 London Road. John continued as licensee until the 1940s.

However John continued as a Newsagents, Stationers, and Tobacconist, at 581 Alexandra Parade, and was living at 27 Aberfeldy Street.

During the 1950s and 60s the pub was run by Denis McEneny then William Donnelly. The City Council saw that the old tenements in the east end of the city were in need of demolition this resulted in the loss of many shops and pubs disappearing for good during the 1960s and 70s.

London Road. 1968. The white building is where William Donnelly had his business.

Facts…
Today London Road starts from Glasgow Cross to Mount Vernon where Mount Vernon railway station stands. However in the 19th century this stretch of road had four different addresses from Glasgow Cross to Ross Street was known as London Street.
From Ross Street to Craignestock Street it was called Great Hamilton Street.
From Craignestock Street to Bridgeton Cross was Canning Street.
From Bridgeton Cross onwards was London Road.
London Street had 7 public houses.
Great Hamilton Street had 10 public houses.
Canning Street 10 public houses.
London Road had 20 public houses.
Total 47 pubs.
Do you remember this old pub or any of the 47 pubs on London Road? If so please leave a comment.

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