Old Dumbarton Road, Partick. The Bun & Yuill House Tavern. The large building with a smoking chimney in the centre of this drawing of 1827 was a tavern known as the “Bun and Yill House” or Bunhouse (yill is an old Scots word for ale). It stood on Old Dumbarton Road on the approach to […]
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The Wheat Sheaf Inn
Old Dumbarton Road, Partick. Thomas Fairbairn’s painting shows the Wheat Sheaf Inn at the eastern end of Old Dumbarton Road. The inn was popular with Glaswegians who walked from the city along the Anderston Walk to Partick and the banks of the River Kelvin, to take in the scenery and the country air. It […]
D. F. Sunter’s Vaults
13 Old Wynd, off the Trongate, Glasgow. Mr Alexander Allan. 1893. In the Old Wynd, off the Trongate, round which centre’s many historical associations and grim stories of a bygone age, there was one of the oldest taverns in Glasgow. At the end of the 1800s it was known as the Waverley Bar, owned by […]
Stirling Castle
90 Old Dumbarton Road, Yorkhill, Glasgow. G3 8PZ. Tel: 01413398132. Stirling Castle. 1991. This was originally Galbraith’s Store the grocers. It opened as a public house during the 1950s. William Lyall Henderson was then licensee, he ran a small pub in Guest Street, Anderston before taking this pub on. Situated at the corner of Old […]
Quinn’s Tavern
106 Oxford Street, Glasgow. S.S. Quinn’s Tavern, 106 Oxford Street. Thanks to Norrie McNamee for the image. Oxford Street is not the longest Street by far, but it has had seven Public Houses to choose from. In the entire history of this pub only seven families ran this pub. The first licensee was Wine & […]
The Quarter Gill
42 Oswald Street, Glasgow. Quarter Gill. 1991. There has been a pub on this site since 1870, spirit dealer James Tennent lived just around the corner in Ann Street. Two years later the pub was owned by Thomas Kirkham , the name above the door was Kirkham’s Bar with wine & spirits at each side […]
