35 St Vincent Place, Glasgow. G1 2ER. Tel: 0141 204 5240.
Henry’s Cafe is situated in the old Glasgow Tourist Centre. Opened in 1999.
35 St Vincent Place, Glasgow. G1 2ER. Tel: 0141 204 5240.
Henry’s Cafe is situated in the old Glasgow Tourist Centre. Opened in 1999.
561 Scotland Street, Glasgow.
This old Glasgow howff dates back to 1877 when James McLauchlan acquired it. The address of the premises was then 157-59 West Scotland Street. As West Scotland Street expanded with new tenement buildings and shop the address changed to 161-63 West Scotland Street. James McLauchlan continued to serve the locals here until 1903.
James Smith then acquired the pub on on 29th June 1903. Mr Smith paid an annual rent of £49. The pub was situated at the corner of Broomhall Street.
The address was changed once again when Kinning Park became part of Glasgow and the whole of West Scotland Street became known as Scotland Street. The name of Broomhall Street also changed and became known as Heather Street, hence the name of the pub.
During the early 1930s John Sutherland was the owner, then Peter Forbes. In 1950 Duncan Campbell Spiers was the new owner. Many will still remember Breata Corr who ran the pub in 1960. By 1973 the pub was closed down.
In the News 1971…
Alcoholic boss spent £350 a week.
When £800 went missing from a Glasgow public house suspicion fell on the new chargehand, who was found to be an alcoholic with a police record. The chargehand had taken the money to London, where he enjoyed a seven-day spending spree in which he got through 3350 before being arrested.
Glasgow Sheriff Court was told this today when John McSherry was jailed for two years. He admitted that between January 25 and February 9 this year, while employed as chargehand in the Heather Bar, 561 Scotland Street, Tradeston, Glasgow, he embezzled £800.
Referring to McSherry’s record of four previous convictions for housebreaking, Sheriff T. A. U. Wood described it as extraordinary that he should be given a job as a public house chargehand. The Sheriff remarked, “He must have been living fairly well in London when he spent £350 in a week.”
“Very Lucky”
The Sheriff told McSherry “Anyone with a record like this, who is in charge of a public house for two or three weeks and takes £800 would normally go to the High Court. I will send you to prison for two years, and you can think yourself very lucky indeed.”
Fiscal William Carmichael said McSherry failed to open the public house on February 10 and the owners were contacted by customers. The £800 was missing and it was discovered that McSherry had done no banking since January 29. Police inquiries revealed he had not been at his lodgings at 8 Swindon Street, Dalmuir, for several days.
£450 Left
On February 17 London police heard about a man had been living in various hotels in the West End of London under different names, and their inquiries led to the arrest of McSherry in the Shaftesbury Hotel. He had £450 left. Solicitor Mr Raymond Bainbriggs said McSherry was 35 and separated from his wife and two children. He earned £20 a week as chargehand.
He had received treatment as an alcoholic, but recovered sufficiently to get a job in a public house in London. He was given a reference which enabled him to get the job in the Heather Bar.
Other pubs on Scotland Street…
140 St Vincent Street, Glasgow. G2 5LA. Tel: 0141 530 7985.
Arisaig. 2007.
This was formerly Ha Ha Bar & Canteen, and in 2014 was known as Anatolia.
Iberica. 2016.
Do you know anything about this Bar Restaurant? If so please get in touch.
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235 St. Andrews Road, Glasgow. G41 1PD. Tel: 01414296685.
Honours Three. 1991.
In the News 1971…
Drink to them in right surroundings at “The Honours Three”
Auld Glasgow Auld Scotland.
It’s odd but true that three school boys doing a class project inspired the name and decor of Glasgow’s newest pub. It’s called “The Honours Three,” after the Honours of Scotland, and it stands at the corner of Shields Road and St Andrew’s Drive.
Three decorative panels at the corner, under the name of the new howff, show the Honours Three, the Crown, the Sceptre, and the Sword of State, faith, fully copied from the Honours which you can see in Edinburgh Castle.
Patriotic Chorus
How did the three schoolboys get into the act?. The proud, new owner, Colin Brown, told me that he reads a monthly magazine called “The Pollokshields Gazette” and it told the story of how the three boys were studying the streets in the district. They discovered that most of them were named after Scottish patriots.
Mrs. Moira Brown with her husband Colin. 1971.
This inspired Colin to make his pub a patriotic one and he took the name from that well-known ballad, “Scotland Yet,” in which the last couplet of each
Chorus runs-
I’ll drink a cup to Scotland yet Wi’ a’ the Honour Three!
A friend of his, Bob Buchanan of Hepburn and Ross, painted the whole song on a decorative board, surrounded by thistles and with an official-looking seal attached. It now hangs on a wall of the bar and doubtless will inspire many a patriotic chorus. The outside of the Honours Three has a half-timbered effect. The inside is a sort of replica of a Scottish patriot’s castle, with stone walls and iron grilles, behind one of which is the head of Robert the Bruce, an exact copy of the head on the statue of Bruce at the Borestone near Bannockburn.
Colin Brown got the head from the sculptor Charles d’Orville Pilkinton Jackson (1887-1973), and the grille is there to protect it from too enthusiastic patriots. It stands against a royal purple velvet cloth and it should give many a patron a frisson.
There are going to be plenty of talking points in the Honours Three. Around the walls is a rich collection of weapons, claymores, broad swords, pistols, rifles, and targes. The targes and claymores were made by that well-known Scottish Nationalist William Wolfe, at his foundry in Bathgate.
There is a collection of old prints that made my mouth water. However, if it makes anybody else’s mouth water; I can tell you that each picture is fixed so securely to the wall that it can’t be moved. Some of them are by Joseph Swan, famous for his “Views of Glasgow” in early Victorian days. Oh the arguments that will arise!
From Edinburgh
There’s a picture of the Duke’s Lodging in the Drygate, 1846, one of Glasgow from Little Govan, Public Offices, Jail, etc, from foot of Charlotte Street, Port Dundas from Garnet Hill, a French print entitled “Cathedral de Glasgow,” and a wonderful work entitled “Engraved for the Complete English Traveller. Perspective View of the City of Glasgow in the County of Clydesdale, with the date 1771.
Colin Brown and his charming wife, Moira have spent months gathering this collection together. Much of it comes from Edinburgh even though nearly all the pictures are of Glasgow.
Honours Three Advert. 1971.
Remarkable Mixture
Colin himself was born in Glasgow but brought up in Dunoon. He’s been a cardiac technician in Stobhill Hospital and a bookmaker’s clerk, but for the last eight years he has worked for his father, who owns four public houses in the city.
Mr William Brown’s pubs are in Cambridge Street and George Street; at Bridgeton Cross and near Paradise. Colin has worked in them all and feels that by this time he knows something about the business. Certainly, in the Honours Three, he has created a remarkable mixture of a pub, a club, a picture gallery and a museum.
Tartan Rigout
When I met Mr and Mrs. Brown they were dressed for their opening cocktail party, Moira Brown, whose maiden name is Campbell, was wearing a sash of the Campbell tartan over one of those white dresses you see in swanky scenes on the telly.
Colin looked fine in Royal Stewart tartan, although he confessed he should really be wearing the Lamont. They can be proud of their pub, and I’m quite sure a lot of people will go along to drink a cup to Scotland, yet, wi’ a’ the Honours Three.
352 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. G2. Tel:01413328205.
Hengler’s Circus, October 2005.
This was formerly Shenanigan’s.
In 2001 J D Wetherspoon took control of the establishment.
Hengler’s Circuc from 1904 to 1924 was a Glasgow Institution, situated at no. 326 Sauchiehall Street.
Shenanigan’s. 1991.
Henglers Circuc. 2008.
Hengler’s Circuc. 2008.
Henglers Circus. 2008.
345 Saracen Street, Possilpark, Glasgow.
The Hawthorn Bar. 1956.
The Hawthorn Bar situated at the corner of Hawthorn Street and Saracen Street. During WW2 this was an old eating house run by Mrs Sarah O’Neil. It was opened as a public house in 1956 by Peter C Byrne, the new bar and lounge was fitted out in the most modern manner, the decor throughout was in oak and walnut paneling on the walls with wallpaper on the upper parts. The lounge had a new cocktail bar in walnut and sycamore with a recessed gantry. The bar and gantry shelves were made from formica. Separating the bar and lounge was a large decorative window, the gantry in the public bar had peach tinted mirrors with concealed flood lighting.
The old premises were demolished in the early 1970s, Mr Byrne then removed to a brand new public house in nearby Bardowie Street in the heart of a housing scheme, naming it the New Hawthorn Bar.
Peter was a director of the Glasgow and District Licensed Trade Association and a convener for the Possilpark Ward of the Association he was also a member of the Glasgow Local Veto Committee.
Interior view of the Hawthorn Bar. 1956.
Left to right Mr B D Dougan, New Royal Oak, Nitshill, Mr D M Ferguson, MacKinlay-McPherson, Mr W Byrne, Hawthorn Bar, Mr G Maxwell, Scottish Brewers Ltd. 1962.
Left to right Mr J J Ferguson, Ferguson’s Bar’s Market Street and Redan Street, Mr J Hurrel, Royal Bar, Gallowgate and Mr Peter C Byrne, Hawthorn Bar. 1962.
The opening of the New Hawthorn Bar, Bardowie Street, 1974. Left to right Peter C Byrne, Dixie Deans (Celtic,) comedian Chic Murray, Johnnie Hamilton (Rangers,) Mr W Byrne and Mrs Peter Byrne.
Mr. Peter C. Byrne, well-known and popular Glasgow licensee, has opened spacious new premises, the New Hawthorn Bar, at Bardowie Street, replacing his former premises, the Hawthorn Bar, Saracen Street.
The new premises, consisted of a public bar and a lounge bar, have accommodation for 300 patrons. Mr. Byrne is a director of the Glasgow and District Licensed Trade Association and convener for the Possilpark Ward of the Association. He is also a member of the Glasgow Local Veto Committee. 1974.
Left to right James McDevitt of the Killearn Bar; John Boyle of Dixon Blazes; and Peter Byrne of the New Hawthorn Bar. 1975.
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In the News 1974…
Pictured at the recent Glasgow Vintners function in the Bellahouston Hotel are (above) Mr. & Mrs. H. Dougan, the Glen Bar: Mrs. & Mr. J. Deery, The Inn, Lambhill; Mrs. M. Byrne, The New Hawthorn; and Mr. W. Lochhead, United Rum Merchants.
The New Hawthorn Bar. 2003.