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Windsor Lounge

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814 Govan Road corner of 2-4 Water Row, Glasgow.

Windsor Lounge Water Row

Windsor Lounge, Water Row, Govan. 1963.

The Windsor Lounge sat at the corner of Water Row and Govan Road. In 1880 William Robin was proprietor of this old public house, he also ran another establishment at 62-64 Thistle Street, Gorbals in the south side of the city, he live at 12 Sandyford Street. William was a well-known Spirit Merchant in the Licensed Trade in Govan and Glasgow as Govan was then not part of the City. After the First World War Mr Robin was paying an annul rent of £100 for the pub in Water Row, he continued to run the pub well into the 1900s.

During the 1930s a Mr A Philip was landlord, he served the locals here for many years and some will still remember him as he was still the licensee until the 1960s, the pub was demolished around 1963.

W Allan

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514 Govan Road, Glasgow.

W Allan

W Allan. Circa 1900.

William Allan, Wine & Spirit Merchant traded at 514 Govan Road at the corner of Portland lane.

The tenement was called Portland Buildings.

William Allan removed from these premises and took over a pub at 652 Govan Road at Napier Street, he continued here until his death in 1906. His wife Jane then took over the licence and held the certificate until the end of WW1.

James Walker Page ran the pub in the 30s and 50s, he also had another pub at 709 Govan Road. These pubs were taken over by Donald G C Grant of Rogano Ltd in the 1960s.

1967 John Scott was licensee here until 1973. When the pub closed it’s doors for the last time before it was demolished, Kennedy’s wine & food Ltd occupied the premises.

Wines & Spirits

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244 Garscube Road, Glasgow.

Wines & Spirits

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

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 White House Inn

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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.