26 Springfield Court, off Buchanan Street, Glasgow. G1 3DQ.
The Lab. 2008.
Front door of the Lab. 2008.
The Lab. 2008.
26 Springfield Court, off Buchanan Street, Glasgow. G1 3DQ.
The Lab. 2008.
Front door of the Lab. 2008.
The Lab. 2008.
427 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. G2 3LG.
The Local. 2005.
This bar was formerly known as Bar Ce Lona, was once called the Ramana restaurant and Colonial Bar.
The Local. 2008.
The Local. 2008.
The Local lay empty for a few years before Broadcast took it over in 2018.
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76 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. G2 3DE. Tel: 01413315180.
Lauder’s, photograph taken 1991.
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Archibald Lauder. 1891.
Lauder’s. August 2005.
Lauder’s April 2007.
Mr James C McIntosh. 1893.
Mr James C McIntosh was cashier in Lauder’s Bar, Sauchiehall Street. Mr McIntosh was a native of Forfar, where he was educated, when he finished school he entered into a Lawyer’s Office, from an early age he showed an unusual aptitude for business, while his conscientious discharge of his duties secured the recognition of his employer, who advanced him from office boy to the responsible position of confidential clerk, still young he was secured his employers thorough confidence, that he was left sole charge of collection of the assessments of Forfar district. Coming to Glasgow in 1889, he entered Mr Lauder’s service as cashier, a position he held for years. Mr McIntosh was civil, obliging and trustworthy, attentive to business, energetic and not afraid of work.
The Highland Light Infantry march from Sauchiehall Street into Renfield Street en route to the front in the First World War.
“Pinta Girl” Marion Forrest, R.T. Blevins, area manager of Tennents; D Wilson, Manager of Lauders and P Woods, district manager of Tennents. 1970.
In the News 1970…
One of Glasgow’s best-known restaurants, Lauders Bar, 76 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, is breaking new ground by serving milk in addition to the usual alcoholic beverages. Another new feature for Glasgow is the introduction of a special Ploughman’s lunch, crusty bread and Scottish cheese, pickles, etc., to be quaffed with either beer or a pinta.
Lauder’s Bar is owned by the Tennent Caledonian Group, and refrigerated milk dispensers are also installed in other four of the group’s licensed premises in Glasgow; The Kind Man, 657 Pollokshaws Road; The Fotheringay, 21 Nithsdale Road; The Waldorf Bar, 57 Cambridge Street; and the Horse Shoe Bar, 17 Drury Street, as well as in the group’s public houses in Wishaw and Stevenston.
Lauder’s with a new paint job. 2008. Big improvement.
In the News 1971…
Poverty Corner, was the north west point of meeting of Sauchiehall Street and Renfield Street, Lauder’s pub, to be exact. It was called “Poverty Corner” because there the out of work comics, ventriloquists, acrobats, singers and shadow graph artists met in the hope of finding something to do.
Lauder’s is still there today, and is the pantomime pub of the Pavillion, just a lane’s breadth from the howff. It’s completely changed from the old days. The former public bar is now a posh lounge. The wee place at the back, with all its theatrical photographs, is now the saloon bar with the cheaper prices.
There are only three theatrical photographs there now. They portray Clifford Smith, conductor of the Pavillion orchestra, Helen Randell a singer with Lex McLean and Sexy Lexy himself. This is odd because as far as I know, Mr McLean is not a habitue of this caravan seral.
In the old days pictures were signed with the autographs of regulars. Now I don’t know what Lauder’s would do without the Pavillion orchestra. It was very different in the days of Poverty Corner. lauder’s then was a kind of employment exchange. If you had 3d for a half pint you went in stood at the bar, and made the drink last as long as possible in the hope that somebody would approach you with the offer of a job for a season, a week or even a night, if you didn’t have 3d, you stood outside Lauder’s at Poverty Corner with the same hope in mind.
Once, in the dear dead days beyond recall, I saw a complete cast for a Glasgow University “Daft Friday” cabaret recruited there in under 15 minute. One and all agreed to give their talents to the students for that evening, free gratis and for nothing on the promise of unlimited free refreshments.
Poverty Corner and Lauder’s pub were the stamping grounds of the Town Hall Pantomime King J. A. Cox. Mr Cox ran what might be called mini pantomimes in town halls and similar establishments all over the West of Scotland. This system was simple. He had a basket of costumes and a basket of curtains and he’d go along to Poverty Corner and pick up a comic, a “feed,” a sister act, a principal boy, a principal girl, and one or two others and say “Half past five at Glasgow Cross,” or wherever.
The lucky people would assemble at the Cross at the appointed hour and along would come a bus bearing the basket of costumes, the basket of curtains and Mr Cox. Once the cast had embussed, Mr Cox would announce the subject of the evening as “Red Riding Hood” and the venue as Bellshill. Or it might be “The Babes in the woods” and Wishaw
During the journey to Bellshill or Wishaw, the cast would work out the pantomime to suit themselves. They knew the plots of all the principal pantomimes and they could soon apportion paras, work in popular songs of the day, decide where the comics gags should be, and make sure that the orchestra (an indispensable pianist) could vamp the music. By the time they’d arrives at the hall, they were ready to go and give it laldy.
In the News 1971…
Busy family.
The Ron Bacardi Trio, one of the busiest combos in Scotland, have added a new member and now go under the name the Bacardi Family. Newest addition is Margaret Bacardi, on electric organ. They are resident in Lauder’s Bar, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and at the Dumbarton Hotel on Fridays.
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Lauder’s Finest Scotch Whisky Label.
At the Paris Exhibition in 1889, Lauder’s scotch whisky won one of the awards in the international jurors to the exhibitors of the British section of the Paris exhibition.
151 Springfield Road, Glasgow.
L. MacPherson’s bar was situated at the corner of Springfield Road and Lily Street, Dalmarnock. Many residents of this area will remember this old established bar as the 151 Bar.
There was licensed premises on this site since at least 1875, the landlord then was a gentleman called James King.
In 1879 Alexander Taylor took over the old pub, he also owned Taylor’s Bar in Hutcheson Street, now called the Court Bar. Mr Taylor continued trading at Springfield Road until the early part of the 1900s.
In 1907 Lachlan MacPherson took over the premises, he was a well established wine & spirit merchant a bonder and blender having premises called the New City Lights, Castle Street.
MacPherson was born in a small village called Rahoy, fifteen miles from Oban, where he was educated. At an early age he came to Glasgow with his widowed mother and family, he became apprenticed to the trade of gold beating. After three years in this craft his employer gave up the business, young MacPherson was desperate as he was bringing in the money for his poor mother. He then became a messenger boy with Messrs Costigaine Bros., of the Granite House. After a few months here he joined the staff of Mr McLachlan, wine & spirit merchant, a native of his birth place in premises on Clyde Street, Port Dundas.
After a year he left to work for Mr John Watt in his Cowcaddens pub, the old Pop Inn, after 18 months he was managing his premises in Parliamentary Road, the old Forfarshire Bar. MacPherson stayed in this responsible position for fourteen years and left to become his own boss at premises on Castle Street.
Lachlan was one of the originators of the Wine, Beer and Spirit Trade Employees Association, in his spare time he loved music and played the bagpipes. He was a Gaelic Scholar and kept in touch with all the Gaelic literature in Glasgow. A Forester of Royal Ash Lodge, no. 5515. He loved the bowls and played in both St. Rollox and Belvedere Bowling greens. He was a member of the Defence Association, and many others including, Incorporation of Bonnetmakers and Dyers, the Deacon and Free Press, an Anderston Weaver and one of the Clydesdale Merchants. He was still an unmarried man in his 40s.
He took over the old licence for the 151 Bar on Springfield Road in 1907 which was a short distance from the Victoria Racing Grounds, the tramway cars from Anniesland passed the front door every few minutes, the area surrounding this old pub was a thriving part of the east end of Glasgow.
The lettering above the pub was in Gold, the main entrance on Springfield Road was the main bar area and Lily Street was the family department. On entering the main bar you were faced with a large mahogany horse shoe bar with large barrels on the gantry, he was not just a wine & spirit merchant but a bonder and blender too. Small tables and chairs took up the rest of the floor space. Mahogany wood stained panelling adorned the walls with crimson dado, the glasswork was of chaste design, the beer store and cellar was adjacent to the bar, and to the left was Mr MacPherson’s private office and telephone booth.
MacPherson continued in the Springfield Road premises until the 1920s.
In 1930 James McAloon was licensee, he also ran the Possil Bar, Possil Road. Sarah Duffin McAloon took over the licence in mid 1930s. Malcolm Paterson then took over, he was the last holder of the certificate until it was demolished around 1970. Mr Paterson also owned the Provanmill Inn, Royston Road.
Mr Lachlan MacPherson. 1893.
30 Stockwell Street, Glasgow.
Ronnie’s Bar. 1991.
This old established pub was better known in the 1980s as Kittys’ Bar. When I was a teenager my father drank in here with his many friend, he had a small shop in Brunswick Street next to the Mitre Bar, selling bedding and soft toys. I remember he gave me a massive lion soft toy to carry to Kittys’ Bar, I could hardly lift the feline it was that big, my father had to give me a hand in case I fell. On arriving at Kitty’s everyone gazed at the size of this toy as my father sat it on the bar and said this is Kittys’ bar.
There has been a pub on this site since at least the 1840s. One of the publicans to hold the licence was John White Crichton, born in 1866 in Langloan, he was educated in Thomson Street school, Dennistoun, where he passed through his classes without special distinction. But he seemed to have a taste for mechanical work, his greatest pleasure as a boy was watching the steam cranes at work. He entered into this trade when he left school and passed his apprenticeship with A & P Steven, Provanside Engine Works. He stop his engineering job to help out his father’s business in Townmill Road where he remained for 5 years. In 1890 he was given a transfer to Stockwell Street.
A very fine public house used to stand on the site of Kitties’ Bar and was known all over the city as the Balmoral.
However Mr Crichton was better known for his other profession as an engineer, he invented the “Emergency” beer raising engine, a simple idea and much smaller than the larger beer engines in cellars of that time. John W Crichton went bankrupt in 1897. The pub side of his business was taken over by Robert Black the pub was then known as the “Record Bar” then Robert Paterson took over the business in 1902. Mr Paterson also owned the Park Bar on Main Street, Tollcross which is now closed and called the Village.
During the 1930s the Stockwell Street premises were run by John Lloyd jun he also had a pub on Parliamentary Road at the corner of Black Street. The pub was sold to the West of Scotland Taverns Ltd in 1959, the licensee Joseph Smillie ran a successful business here for many years, he also ran Mill’s Bar in Duke Street, a pub on Morrison Street and Westmuir Street, now called O’Kane’s.
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In the NEWS 1979…
Kitty’s Bar advert 1979.
Kitty’s Bar was owned by Ted Watters and his wife Kitty, the interior of Kitty’s Bar was panelled wall to wall with no particular featured decor. However the Watters and their staff were very friendly.
The couple were old friends of Glen and have been in the trade for a few years. They used to have a pub on London Road, Bridgeton, but when it was demolished they moved the Stockwell Street. It was a move they never regretted.
Darts was a favourite sport in Kitty’s Bar. Their Darts team were champions of the Independent League in 1978.
20 Stirling Street, Glasgow. Now Blackfriar Street. Demolished.
The King’s Head Inn was situated on this Street.
The first listing for the King’s Head Inn was in 1828 the landlord was Mr James McKerracher, a Vintner and Stabler at 20 Stirling Street. However he is mentioned in 1824 as a Vintner & Stabler at 32 Stirling Street. The following year his business was at 20 Stirling Street.
James continued as landlord of the King’s Head Inn until 1831, he then went on to run the White Hart Inn at 4 Dunlop Street.
Next to run the King’s Head Inn in 1833 was a lady called Mrs D Cameron, she also ran the stabling and carrier quarter. The following year Alexander McPhail was running the King’s Head Inn. Alexander continued as Landlord until his death in 1846, his wife then took over the running of the Inn until 1851.
The Inn was then taken over by John Drummond later on in the same year. John was not just the new landlord by was also a Police Dung contractor, letting out the back of the premises for several carrier quarter’s. The last listing of the King’s Head Inn was in 1857 still run by John Drummond, the following year he is found running his Police Dung Contractor, Stables and Offices at 6 North Wallace Street, he was then living at 10 Canning Place in the east end of the city. The old building of the King’s Head Inn was demolished around 1899.
Thanks to David A Stevenson
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