566 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
The Grand Hotel Bar was part of the Grand Hotel.
566 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
The Grand Hotel Bar was part of the Grand Hotel.
37 Saltmarket, Glasgow. G1Tel: 01415520567.
Graham’s Bar, 1991.
To read the full history of this old establishment click here.
This old public house is now called O’Brien’s.
O’Brien’s. August 2005.
In 1892 Mr Graham the proprietor once reported what he say in London was awful, “A throbbing mass of drunken humanity of every age and sex, from the girl or youth of fourteen summers to the hoary-headed old man and woman.”
1618 Shettleston Road, Shettleston, Glasgow. G32 9AN.Tel: 01417781102.
The Gartocher Bar. 1991.
The Gartocher was built in 1937 by architect William Ross for publican William Ralston. The exterior was faced with brick and had two large art deco stained glass windows.
This was the site of old Barrowman’s pub, but the original building was pulled down in 1937. Owner William Ralston took over the pub in April 1927. As time went on he saw the need to reconstruct the premises, when the City Council decided to widen Shettleston Road the old pub was in the way. Ralston then thought this was the perfect time to enlarge the pub. It was set back 5 feet to increase the area from 670 square feet to 1939 square feet by taking in the gardens and disused stable premises at the rear. The new pub would have ladies toilets installed for the first time and meals would be available.
William was 38 years of age then and had financial interest in another pub in West Nile Street, Glasgow.
Shortly after I took some photographs of the Gartocher, August 2005, the pub closed it’s doors, steel window and door guards now protect the property which is under threat from vandalism.
It opened shorty afterwards and is still in business today. 2007.
Gartocher Bar. 2006.
490 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. G2 3LW. Tel: 0141332 1120.
The Garage. 2005.
The Garage was formerly a night club called Shuffle’s. Does this place bring back memories, if so please contact us and we will review your comments.
In the 1980s many of the youngsters frequenting Shuffle’s came from Govan.
Shuffles advert 1974.
Email from Bob F… This was once the Electric Gardens night club and later became the Mayfair.
However this old place of entertainment was known as The Macushla.
The Macushla advert. 1972.
Shuffles Advert 1974.
Another 1974 advert.
Shuffles advert 1975.
Savoy advert 1978.
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In the NEWS 1979…
The best Disco in Town gang in action.
If I Could Call The Discotune…
I was a disco freak so long ago that Saturday Night Fever was only a Tuesday morning sniffle.
In the days of Frank Lynch’s first Glasgow disco in the Mayfair Club I leaped around to Proud Mary and Daughter of Darkness.
Although I now appear only at parties in various living-rooms, I still cavort like a windmill caught in a gale. And I adore the disco sounds of today. I’ve a great deal of sympathy for STV’s The Best Disco in Town, which has just finished its run. It was entertaining, danceable, eye-appealing stuff in a second-rate way.
GIMMICKS
I liked the camera flexibility and the easy ensemble atmosphere of the singers. Few technical gimmicks intruded into the natural flow of the songs and dances. Tiger Tim is a belated find for TV, As the host, his brash, common-touch uninhibited patter sparkled like a plink, plink, fizz commercial.
He’s a smasher and STV would be daft not to try to find a follow-up quiz or kids’ show for him. There should be another series of The Best Disco in Town. And there are a few changes I’d like.
ZIPPIER
If technical reasons allow, it should be recorded a couple of days before going out so more chart sounds can be included. They should try for zippier singers than the generally mediocre bunch they had.
With slicker thinking the Best Disco could make Top of the Pops look like The Good Old Days.
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The Penthouse advert 1979.
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The Garage. 2008.
The Garage. 2019.
929 Shettleston Road, Shettleston, Glasgow. G32 7NU.Tel: 01417784226.
The Gantry. 1991.
This old pub was known as Stevenson’s when it was built at the beginning of the 1900s, James Lee Stevenson was a well respected publican in the area, when he died his wife Elizabeth took over the licence in 1914 paying an annul rent of £90.00. Daughter Catherine then took control of the business until the out break of the First World War. The pub became known as the Waverley Bar.
Other licence holders were Robert Skelton 1960s and 70s then Charlie Hugh and Billy Mitchell became partners in the business.
The Gantry with a new paint job. 2009.
The Gantry, August 2005.
647 Shettleston Road, Glasgow..
Interior view of the Forge Bar. 1964.
The pub got a new name The Forge Bar named after the nearby Forge foundry.
Interior view of the lounge 1964.
J Maguire, of Usher’s and manager J Boyle. 1967.
This photo was taken through the mirror, with some of the locals sitting in the new lounge. 1967.
The new lounge was added to the Forge Bar taking over an adjoining licensed grocer’s shop. The alterations meant that up to 180 people could be seated in the lounge. An unusual feature in the lounge was the fiberglass walls and a goat hair carpet laid out in green and brown squares.
Shettleston Road looking west.
Licensees…