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The Manhattan Bar

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7-9 Peel Street, Glasgow. Tel: 01413392537.

Manhattan

Manhattan Bar. 1991.

In 1947 part of this pub was a fishmongers and a boot repair shop.

In 1890 Margaret Thomas 7 Peel Street went to court against her husband Daniel Thomas formerly a spirit merchant, London Road, Glasgow. The parties who were both married previously in April 1877, Mrs Thomas the pursuer said that after the marriage defender took to the drink and ill treated her. In May 1881 he sold the pub in London Road and left Glasgow for Australia. He wrote on his way there but she had not heard from him since and thought he was dead, she was unable to trace him, therefore she could not file for a divorce.

In the 1990s this pub was called Stumps.

Also see the BEN, Mr. D. Graham.

Licence Holders.
1991 John Grant.
1973-1969 John Campbell Grant.
1960 Robert Walker Dickie Morrison.

The Lemon Tree

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394 Parliamentary Road, Glasgow. Demolished.

Lemon Tree

The Lemon Tree sat at the corner of Parliamentary Road and Pladda Street formerly Calderwood Street.

There has been a pub on this site since 1863, owned by Charles McGilvray. Two year later Robert Lang took over the pub, Mr Lang lived in one of the flats next door to the pub.

The pub was named after Richard Lemon the proprietor in the late 1950s.

In the 1870, Robert Cleat a wine & spirit merchant traded here, he also ran a small pub at 101 East Milton Street.

In 1881 William McLeod a prominent spirit merchant acquire the licence. Mr McLeod was born in 1843 at Lambhill and educated in Springburn, his first initiatory start in life was his engagement as clerk to the firm of Messrs., Leadbetter, Govan & Co, quarrymasters, to whom he remained for 17 years, during which time he married a niece of Mr Govan, one of the partners.

He took over his first pub at 281 Gairbraid Street, Maryhill, premises that had just been built, in 1873 at the corner of Vernon Street, now Queen Margaret Drive. Business was booming and in 1887 he acquired another pub further up Maryhill at 210-12 Main Street the “Redan.” Using his Gairbraid Street establishment as his headquarters, all the finest liquor was dispensed at his premises, blending all his own whiskies and his special blend of “Tiree” which not only had a large home consumption but was known abroad, where it was extensively exported. Read More on McLeod.

In 1911 Patrick Shanley took over the pub he also ran a public house at 117 Bishop Street, Anderston, he ran a successful business here until after WW1.

Richard Lemon acquired the licence in the late 1950s, he held the licence until the pub was demolished in 1964. The following year he acquire the licence for the Cuillins, Kyleakin Road.

Large group of men with John Dougan, Springburn Road 1962
John Dougan fourth from the left. 1962.

Trade personalities who attended the smoker dinner held at Belmont House, by the Cowcaddens Ward. 1962. left to right Mr George Ramster; Mr Hugh Doherty, Symposium Bar, Cowcaddens; Mr Neville Jones, Cross Keys, St. Peter’s Street; Mr John Dougan, Dougan’s Bar, Springburn Road; Mr Richard Lemon, Lemon Tree, Parliamentary Road, ward convener; Mr W J Bennet, Bennet’s, Port Dundas Road; Mr William B Gow, Bristol Bar; Mr James Lanagan, Maitland Street; Mr Thomas F Flynn, Mr Donald McNiven, Argyll Arms, Kennedy Street, Mr W J McDowall. 1962.

Richard Lemon

Some of the members of the Scottish Benevolent on a days trip, left to right Mrs A McCaskill, Kirkhouse, Mr T Brennan, Whitehall Restaurant, George Grier, Mr & Mrs R Lemon.

Other licensees’ who ran this pub were Patrick Breen, Mr Breen was an Irishman, and owned this pub during the 1930s, he sold the pub to move to Donegal. He passed away in 1945 beside his wife who died in 1921 in Kells Co. Meath, Ireland.

Another licensee was William Burke who ran the pub during the 1950s before Richard Lemon look over.

William Macleod

William McLeod.

Also see Bennet’s other pub

Facts…
Licence Holders.
1964-1959 Richard Lemon.
1950-1947 William Burke.
1937 Patrick Breen.
1919-1911 Patrick Shanley.
1910-1881 William McLeod.
1880 Robert Weir.
1878 Robert Weir.
1875 Robert Cleat.
1870 Robert Cleat also had a pub on 101 East Milton Street.
1865 Robert Lang.
1863 Charles McGilvray.

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

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James Hutchison

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164-166 Paisley Road West, Glasgow.

James Hutchison

James Hutchison’s bar sat at the corner of Paisley Road West and Plantation Street.

There has been a pub on this sit since 1883, William Laird traded here until 1893 at Melrose Buildings.

In 1894 George Blair acquired the licence, he also had a pub at 79 Main Street, Bridgeton now called the Park Lane Tavern.

James Hutchison took over the pub in 1930, he ran the Auld Gushet Hoose, 151 Duke Street and traded in Paisley Road successfully until a few years after WW2.

James Hutchison’s bar became known as the Plantation Inn and was demolished in the late1970s.

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In the NEWS 1977…

Plantation Inn 1977

Mike Sharkey outside the Old Plantation Inn. 1977.

But pub boss Mike has a barricade plan…

Landlord Mike Sharkey is preparing to barricade himself in his Govan pub in defiance of a Glasgow District Council order to move.

The council want Mike out of the Old Plantation Inn because they say the tenement building where it is situated is dangerous and they have a warrant for its demolition.

The 40 year old publican, who lives at 8 Torriden Avenue, Dumbreck, doesn’t want his pub demolished because he stands to lose about £75,000.

And he claims that the building’s dangerous condition was caused by the District Council. Mike, a former civil engineer, who took over the Old Plantation Inn in Paisley Road West four years ago, said the council sent in a demolition squad to knock down a tenement block adjoining his pub.

DANGEROUS

“They thought there was a mutual gable between the two properties,” he said, “but half way through the demolition, they discovered this was not the case. “Apparently there were only two chimney breasts and a thin brick partition separating the buildings, and the fact that the adjoining tenement was taken away meant that the building my pub was in was liable to become dangerous.”

The pub owner was granted an interim interdict preventing the District Council carrying out any further demolition work. The District Council’s building control department examined the property and gave Mike a continuation to draw up a safe scheme for strengthening the gable wall.

“They then decided that the pub tenement be condemned as dangerous, and that the seven tenants and occupiers on the upper floors be removed out and rehoused,” he said.

“No action was to be taken on demolition so that I could come up with a scheme for partial demolition of the property and reroofing the pub. This was to be done at my own cost, and I would have had to buy the upstairs premises.

“However, in the meantime, the Department of Environmental Health obtained a draft resolution condemning this tenement as “sub-tolerable.”

“It takes between six months to a year for a final resolution to come through, so this meant that I would have to spend at least £10,000 in reroofing and demolishing only to have the whole pub knocked down within a year.”

The District Council’s assistant director of building control Mr Robert Dalgleish said that after council workmen started demolition, the chimney breast between the two tenements was found to be loose.

WARRANT

“This matter was continued several times, but eventually we were granted a warrant for the complete demolition of the property of which Mr Sharkey is a part-owner.

“As far as we are concerned there would be no compensation. This would be a matter for District Council consideration.”

When asked about the pub-owner’s claims that the building’s dangerous condition was caused by the demolition work on the other tenement, Mr Dalgleish said that this was not the case.

His view, however, was opposed by a representative of a City firm of consultant engineers who made a report on the tenement.

Meanwhile, the deadline given to the publican is drawing nearer. Mike has been ordered to leave the premises on or before 12 noon on June 27, but he says he is staying put.

“I don’t see why their mistakes should cost me. I have a wife and seven children, and the council want to take away my livelihood. “The one thing I am not going to do is leave. I’m going to barricade myself in if necessary.”

Licence Holders.
1973-1970 Colin Neeson.
1960 Margaret Eyvel MacLeod Campbell.
1950 Mr J D Campbell.
1947-1930 James Hutchison.
1925-1894 George Blair.
1893-1883 Melrose Buildings William Laird.