140 Nelson Street, Glasgow. G5.
The Gallery. 1991.
This old southside howff dates back to 1873 when landlords Armstrong & Shaw traded from the premises as wholesale and retail wine & spirit merchants. Over the years a few of Glasgow’s prominent licensee’s owned this pub for a short while, Dennis McAuley, Michael Flynn and John Kennedy and John Harvey.
In the 1980s this old pub was called John Harvey’s Bar.
John Harvey’s Bar. 1980s.
17-21 Nithsdale Road, Glasgow. G41 2AL.Tel: 01414231088.
Fotheringay. 1991.
This is now the Horse Shoe owned by ex-manager David Smith of the Horse Shoe Bar in Drury Street.
The Fotheringay was opened in 1965 by east end publican William M Johnston, Mr Johnston owned the Charter Bar on Tollcross Road.
The Fotheringay was a new venture consisting of a buffet lounge, public bar, delicatessen and an off-sales. The new lounge could comfortably seat 120. A novel feature of the lounge was the two natural cellars with wrought iron gates which were used to display wine bottles.
Left to right at the opening of the Fotheringay Mr William M Johnston, Mrs Barr, Mrs Johnston and Mr Barr, president of the Licensed Trade Defence Association. 1965.
Interior view of the buffet lounge.
Some of the guests left to right H Carmichael, J Rankin, J Gow, J Chalmers and M Forbes all well known figures in the licensed trade.
It’s now called the Horse Shoe Bar, with the same lettering as the Horse Shoe Bar in Drury Street and the same manager . It didn’t last long and the place closed a few years later.
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In the NEWS 1978…
The Beer Boss Pulls A Smart One…
The Fotheringay staff (left to right) Andy McCallum, Ricky and Margaret Thom, and David Barclay.
The Fotheringay, which some say is the best pub Tennent Caledonian own in Glasgow, is having some problems these days, from the former sales director of Tennent Caledonian.
When Billy Findlay gave up his director’s job with T.C. he bought the Titwood Bar from the company.
Then it was a place which TC were not too interested in improving because their ace bar, The Fotheringay was directly facing in Nithsdale Street, Strathbungo.
Bill and his brothers John and Jim had no such reservations and spent tens of thousands doing up the place.
NICE BAR
Now Bill, who worked for 21 years with Tennent’s, is taking custom away from their best pub. Says Bill: “My future is staked in this place and I am not going to put my family and home in jeopardy for the sake of Tennent’s Okay, the Fotheringay has a good reputation and I am on good terms with the manager but I want the Titwood to be even better.”
Across the road, manager Ricky Thom told me, “The Titwood now is a nice bar but I don’t think it is going to do the Fotheringay out of business.
The Horse Shoe Bar. 2005.
The Horse Shoe Bar has now a transfer of the lease for anyone interested in running their own pub, a transfer premium of £46,500 is asked for. September 2005.
The bar reopened as the Fother. 2008.
Fother’s. 2008.
148 Nelson Street, Glasgow. G5 8EJ. Demolished.
The Dew Drop Inn sat at the corner of Nelson Street and 93 West Street, Tradeston. It was formerly known as “The Rose”.
There has been a pub on this site since 1863. Landlord James Wilson stayed across the road for his place of business. The old building was demolished at the end of the 1800s and a new tenement building was erected in its place with a public house on the ground floor.
William Urquhart the new landlord acquired a licence to sell wine and spirits in April 1896 and traded here for many years. In 1899 his annual rent was £99. William also ran a pub at 64 Clyde Place called the Ceilidh Bar.
Mr Urquhart lived at 13 Daisy Street in Govanhill with his wife Christina and family. On the outbreak of the First World War William’s wife became licensee, this may have been the cause of William being killed at war or died here in Glasgow. However Christina ran a successful business for many years and was still licensee in 1950.
In 1943 William Urquhart’s Daughter also Christina married Charles Cruikshank. More to follow.
Well-known Glasgow Wine & Spirit Merchant Matthew E Taylor acquired the licence in 1966 until the end of the 70s, the pub was then known as the Green Horn. The old pub stayed open until the 1990s before it too was demolished like many of the other pubs on Nelson Street.
In the News 1974…
It’s his chain of office again.
Mr. M. E. Taylor, C. & J. F.S.A.Scot., has been installed as Visitor of The Incorporation of Maltmen in Glasgow. A fifth generation in the wine trade in Glasgow, Mr. Taylor already held this office in 1969/70. There are 14 incorporation’s in the City of Glasgow and all their income is disbursed to charity.
As well as running his business, Stevenson Taylor (North) Ltd., Mr Taylor is chairman of the St. John (Glasgow) Housing Association Ltd., who are building a sheltered housing project at Partickhill.
Mr Taylor is pictured wearing the chain of office of the incorporation and insignia of C. St. J. 1974.
In 1978…
“In recent years because of redevelopment the firm have had to face up to the loss of many of their retail premises, more perhaps than any other private concern in Scotland…
Mr Matthew E. Taylor, a respected and honoured personality in the Scottish licensed trade, is a fifth generation of a family with a time-honoured reputation in Glasgow wine and spirit circles and in particular with the firm of Stevenson Taylor (North), Glasgow.
This firm, in fact, is now more than 170 years old, and Matt can trace his family links with it right back to the early part of the last century. As managing director of the concern, with which he has such a long family background, he is not only continuing the good work of his forebears, but by his own qualities has impressed himself upon the trade scene.
He is a kenspeckle figure, recognisable with his trim beard, and often wearing Highland dress. Modest though he is, he takes a natural pride in the honour that have been bestowed on him.
Highlight of his trade career came in 1965 when he was installed as a Chevalier of the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin de Bourgogne, an organisation of Burgundy wine makers, wine merchants and connoisseurs.
This honour was conferred on him at a ceremony in the Chorey-le-Beaune, preceded by an impressive procession through the village. He is also a Knight of the French Order of St. Lazarus.
Prominently associated with the St. John Association, Glasgow, of which he was a founder-member, he was appointed a Knight of Justice of the Order of St. John in 1974, and it was another highlight of his career when he received the accolade of Knighthood at St. James’ Palace in November 1976.
But in Matt Taylor’s opinion, the main highlight of his career came in October, 1975, when as chairman of the St. John (Glasgow) Housing Association he officiated at the opening of the St. John Residential Home, Partickhill, Glasgow, the ceremony being performed by the Duke of Gloucester.
It was after a three-year period of marking time that this project finally got off the ground, Matt recalls, but it was then built, opened and occupied, all within a space of 18 months.
As well as having on two occasions been invested as Visitor of the Incorporation of Maltmen of Glasgow (1969 and 1974), he is a past president of the Forty-Nine Wine and Spirit Club (1975), chairman of the Scottish Veto Investment Company, and a director of the Benevolent Society of the Licensed Trade of Scotland.
IT was within recent months that Matt became a director of the “Ben”. As with various other trade personalities, he has a family connection with that organisation, for a grand-uncle, Henry Taylor, was president of the Scottish Wine and Spirit Merchant’ Benevolent Institution as far back as 1888.
Taking a lively interest and a strong pride in Scotland’s heritage, Matt is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a director of the Grand Antiquity Society of Glasgow (of which he will be Preses in 1980).
It is fitting that he should have interests in this direction, for the origin of his family firm go back to 1806. The founder was James Stevenson, whose son, Robert, was joined in partnership by Henry and Edward Taylor, who were followed by other members of the Taylor family.
Matt’s association with the firm began in 1947, after Army Service in which he held the rank of Captain. By 1959 he became managing director. In this position he succeeded his cousin, the late Mr. Graham Taylor, who had played Rugby for Scotland in the 1920’s and also for Glasgow Academicals at a period when they were rated as invincible.
Matt’s father, Mr. Matthew G. Taylor, C.A., was one of five brothers who were all directors of the business.
Apart from the wholesale wine and spirit aspects of their business, the firm have for long been prominent on the retail side, both with public houses and off-licences. The premises with which they have been longest associated for more than 110 years, in fact is the Glaswegian, at 69 Bridge Street.
The licence has been held on their behalf since 1865 and their present tenants there are Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Heenan. Harry has won renown in Scottish darts circles, and as well as going on exhibition tours all over the country he makes an annual visit to the U.S.A.
In recent years, because of compulsory purchase for redevelopment in Glasgow, the firm have had to face up to the loss of many of their retail premises, more, perhaps, than by any other private concern in Scotland.
First to go, Matt recalls, was the Tower Bar in Bishop Street, Anderston in 1966. Among the premises they have lost since 1969 have been off-licence in Govan Road; public house premises at 260 Buchanan Street; the Greenhorn and the Cameronian in London Road; the Buchanan House Bar in Renfrew Street; an off-licence at 602 Gallowgate and the Oak Bar, Gallowgate; and the Gushet Bar, Port Dundas Road.
Matt intends, however, that the firm should remain active on the retail side, an indication of this being that they recently took over the Clansman in Springfield Road on the site about 400 yards from Celtic Park, with Matt himself holding the Licence.
Matt Taylor, who is joined in the directorship of the company by his wife, has two sons, two daughters and seven grandchildren. The elder daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison, Matt’s right-hand, is a sixth generation of the Taylor family in the wine and spirit trade.
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511 New Keppochhill Road, Glasgow.
In the early part of the 1870s Mr David Henderson wine and spirit merchant was landlord of this public house, although under a different name the pub was a thriving business. Mr Henderson also owned another pub on Clyde Street, Port Dundas. When he passed away his wife took over the business around 1880. By this time she was living a few door down from the pub on New Keppochhill Road as it was then called.
In 1892 the licensee was James McIntyre who formerly traded from Stockwell Street for years, he continued serving the locals here until the turn of the new century. Mr Maltman then took over the pub, however in 1916 his wife Mariann became licensee, this may had been due to the fact that he went to fight for his country during the First World War. Marian was still in the pub after the war.
Many people living today may remember the Morrison family who owned the pub from the 1930s until the 1960s when the pub was closed down. William Morrison ran the pub during the 30s and Jeanie Morrison was here in the swinging 60s.
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100 New City Road, Glasgow.
There has been a pub on this site since 1853. The first licensee was spirit dealer Mr James Steel. The following year wine and spirit merchant Matthew Henderson took over the business, he continued as licensee until 1869. In 1870 Francis Crumlish took over the licensee, spirit merchant Francis also had a public house at 124 Garscube Road, however he left his New City Road premises the following year to concentrate on his other pub in Garscube Road.
William Sutherland then took over in 1872 until 1881. George Galloway tried his hand at this pub for a few years and gave it up two years later.
It wasn’t until William Imrie a well-known wine and spirit merchant took over and turned this pub into a very good business. Mr Imrie also had public houses at West Nile Street, and Marlborough Street.
In 1895 alterations of an unusually extensive description has been going on in the premises of William Imrie at 100 New City Road, for some time. These were considered necessary for several reasons, not the least of which was a laudable desire on the part of Mr Imrie that his establishment should rank second to none in the West End of Glasgow, and those who had visited the new City Bar during the last few weeks will readily agree that this desire is now un fait accompli. The inauguration or to use a good old Scotch term “house warming,” took place, when, on the invitation of mine host, a select number of friends met to honour the occasion.
The chair was occupied by Mr W J Davidson, writer (lawyer), while Mr R C Cowan discharged the duties of croupier. The following gentlemen took part in the proceedings.. Messrs Thomas Brown, John Dove, Robert Dunn, William McKean, T Y Paterson, William Imrie, William Imrie jun., H S Donald, John James, J C Turnbull and Thomas Gillespie. Among others, apologies for absence were received from Messrs Gemmell, Croall and Aitken.
The chairman proposing the health of Mr Imrie and success to the City Bar, paid a high tribute to his sterling character as a good citizen and esteemed member of the trade. Speaking as a representative of the trustees under whom Mr Imrie had now for a long number of years been a valued tenant, he referred to the harmonious and satisfactory nature of all their business transactions. Other toasts were from the Brewing and Distilling Trades. Songs were sung at intervals by Messrs Dunn, Brown, Donald, Imrie jun., and other. A liberal supply of cakes, wine and fruit added to” a wee drap o’ the Auld Kirk” was provided for the guests.
The City Bar was one of the most elegant and commodious pubs in the area at that time, situated on the tramway lines on New City Road and occupied an important and enviable position. It was advertised that the bar was a quiet and steady one and there is an entire absence of the rowdy element. Since Mr Imrie disposed of his other premises on West Nile Street,so successfully conducted for a number of years in the City Bar.
The internal fittings had been renewed after the alterations with a modern fashion. To the left a long range of counter, solid mahogany, extended the whole length of the bar, and, as a background, a uniform row of barrels on which were displayed the various blends of whisky and other liquors in stock. The decorative work here, and, indeed, all over the premises, reflects the greatest credit upon Mr John James, of Wellington Street, H S Donald, Rutherglen Road was responsible for the stained glass work which was of high class and beautifully designed. Passing into the large room seated for about forty, further evidence of artistic skill was apparent. The floor was laid with linoleum and the walls decorated with beautiful colonial engravings.
The family department was entered from Abercorn Street which was thoroughly isolated from the main bar. Snugs were available for the gents who wished for a quiet drink. The beer was raised from the cool cellar from a Harris Beer engine. The beer was supplied by Messrs J & J Brown, East Wemyss, Fife. Mr Imrie’s son was learning the mysteries of brewing.
William Imrie continued to serve the locals here until the end of WW1.
There are no records from 1922 to 1934 as to these premises then in 1935 Neil B Rintoul occupied the premises. Mr Rintoul also have a public house at 1042 Argyle Street but gave up the following year to concentrate on the Argyle Street premises. Many will remember publican Mr James Marshall who ran this pub from 1937 to the 1950s. One of the last publicans to have this pub was John Hastie. The pub was demolished in the 1960s.
Do you remember any of the old Pubs on New City Road? If so please leave a comment.
239 North Street, Charing Cross, Glasgow. G3 7DL. Tel: 0141 221 0061.
In 2000 this was known as the Jedi Bar.
The Jedi Bar.2000.
The Jedi Bar was shaped like Darth Vader’s helmet. The pub was well known for it’s Star Wars decor and attracted many fans of the films. Outside you had one door entrance with two massive rocket engines on each side. The pub had three large projector screens and customers could play console games. In the summer you could enjoy a glass of cold beer and wine if that is your tipple, in the beer garden.
Update…2002 Jedi Bar has closed.
The Halcyon Bar. 2004.
The Halcyon Bar opened shortly after the Jedi Bar closed in 2002. Unfortunately, it only lasted for a short while and closed in March 2004.
Update December 2005…
Passing North Street today and noticed that this pub is now called Chinaski’s.
Chinaski’s. 2018. Tel: 0141 221 0061.
The bar is named after Henry Chinaski, the biographical protagonist of several works by the American writer Charles Bukowski.
Henry Charles “Hank” Chinaski is the literary alter ego of the American writer Charles Bukowski, appearing in five of Bukowski’s novels, a number of his short stories and poems, and in the films Barfly and Factotum. Although much of Chinaski’s biography is based on Bukowski’s own life story, the Chinaski character is still a literary creation that is constructed with the veneer of what the writer Adam Kirsch calls “a pulp fiction hero.” Works of fiction that feature the character include Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live With the Beasts (1965), Post Office (1971), South of no North (1973), Factotum (1975), Women (1978), Ham on Rye (1982), Hot Water Music (1983), Hollywood (1989), and Septuagenarian Stew (1990). He is also mentioned briefly in the beginning of Bukowski’s last novel, Pulp.
Chinaski is a writer who worked for years as a mail carrier. An alcoholic, womanising misanthrope, he serves as both the protagonist and antihero of the novels in which he appears, which span from his poverty-stricken childhood to his middle age, in which he finds some small success as a screenwriter.
Open every day from noon ’til midnight, food is served every day until 9pm. http://www.chinaskis.com
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