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Donnelly’s Tavern

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88 Trongate, Glasgow. Demolished.

Drawing of Donnelly's Tavern 88 Trongate
Donnelly’s Tavern.

Thanks to the Mitchell Library.

Sir John Moore (1761-1809), son of the physician John Moore (1729-1802), was born in this three-storey tenement, Donald’s Land, opposite the Tron Steeple in Trongate. The family moved to Dunlop Street c 1771. Sir John became a national hero following his death fighting against the French at the Battle of Corunna during the Peninsular Wars in 1809.
The building was subsequently occupied by a shoe shop and Donnelly’s Tavern and Billiard Rooms. It is depicted in this engraving during its demolition in 1855. Thanks to the Mitchell Library.

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The Duke of Touraine

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Tollcross Road, near Fullerton Park. Closed Down.

Duke of Torraine, Tollcross Road
The Duke of Tourraine, Tollcross Road, 1998.

The Duke of Touraine was established in Parkhead in 1969. Another opened in Ingram Street with Sylvester’s next door. The one in Tollcross Road is now closed down and became a Kebab shop.

Also see The Duke of Touraine in Duke Street.

Also see Sylvester’s the Pub and Leroy’s

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Chequers.

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Tollcross Road, Parkhead Cross, Glasgow. Closed.

Image of Chequers Parkhead Cross 2005
Chequers. 2005.

This was one of the shortest openings of a Glasgow pub, it only stayed open for a few years and is now closed down. It was formerly the T S B Bank.

Image of Chequers Parkhead Cross 2005
Chequers. 2005.

After a few years it opened again by the people who own Fullarton Park Hotel and renamed it the Bank.

The pub was changed to the Bank and again stayed open for a few years and closed down. It now lies empty. 2008.

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The Charter Bar.

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498-502 Tollcross Road,Tollcross, Glasgow. G31 4XX. Closed.

The Charter. 1991.

The Charter Bar. 1958.

Charter Bar, the lounge. 1958.

The Charter Bars main bar. 1958.

Charter Bar seating arrangement. 1958.

This pub is now called Cotters Bar the locals still refer to it by it’s old name the Charter. To read the history of this pub please check the store for my second book.

Cotter’s Bar August 2005.

Update…2019.

The Charter is now a community hub for the local people of Tollcross.

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The Castle Bar.

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12 Turriff Street,Glasgow. G5 9SB. Demolished.

The Castle Bar. 1991.

Many will still remember this old bar as the Balmoral Bar.

There has been a pub on this site since at least 1875 owned by Mr Gray. Walter Hardie took over the licence in 1891 from publican George Nicol who owned another pub on Caledonia Road at the corner of Thistle Street. Walter then expanded his empire and took over another pub in West Street. When Walter retired from the licensed trade in 1928 his son Alex took over the pub in Turriff Street then known as Elgin Street. Old Mr Hardie enjoyed nine years of his retirement before his death. Alex lost his son also Walter during the Second World War, he was a Sub-Lieutenant and was killed in service on June, he was only nineteen years of age.

Mr Alexander K Hardie. 1945 Licensee of the Balmoral Bar.

Alexander K Hardie was a well known and respected member of the Glasgow Licensed Trade he was licensee of the Balmoral Bar until he retired in October 1959. Taking an active interest in trade affairs, he was for 13 years a member of the Managing Committee of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association and for several years from 1946 was a Director of the Glasgow and District Licensed Trade Defence Association.

Mr Alexander K Hardie.

A K Hardie was a keen Burnsian and was past president of the Royalty Burns Club.

This image was taken in 1958 at the Glasgow Licensed Trade Association Dance.

Left to right Mr H McCrostie, Whitbread’s; Mr & Mrs J Lundie, The Cavendish; Mr & Mrs William Miller “Broon’s Bar”; Mr H L Jenkins, Whitbread’s; Mrs & Mr J K Hardie, Balmoral Bar; Mr F W Bowles, Whitbread’s. 1958.

In the NEWS 1977…

Raiders gag pub owner’s son.

Police today found 25-year-old John Colquhoun bound and gagged in his father’s bar in Turriff Street, Gorbals.

He had been cleaning up shortly before midnight when there was a knock on the door. As he opened it two raiders bundled him back in and overpowered him.

999 CALL

Leaving him lying in a corner with a scarf tied tightly over his mouth, they fled with £300 and some whisky and cigarettes. John eventually managed to reach a phone and put out a 999 call. He was unhurt.

Detectives of Glasgow’s Southern Division are investigating.

Update…2007.

It is sad to see this once popular local closed down.

Castle Bar. 2007. Thanks to Norrie Macnamee.

Colhoun’s Castle Bar.

Facts…
Licence Holders.
1991 John Colquhoun
1973 Alexander Hamilton McCann.
1960 Charles H McCann.
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Britannia Vaults.

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113 Trongate, Glasgow. G1 5HD.

Britannia Vaults. 1880s.

The Britannia Music Hall (The Panopticon) in Trongate, Glasgow, is the oldest surviving music hall in the world.

Built in 1857 by Thomas Gildard and HM McFarlane, it has hosted some of the biggest names on the Music hall circuit.

In 1906 Stan Laurel made his first stage appearance there on amateur night. In that same year A E Pickard bought the building and changed its name to the Panopticon. He also undertook some major works, installing a freak show, a roof top carnival and a waxworks. He also excavated the basement and installed an indoor zoo.

The Panopticon was one of the first buildings in Glasgow become powered by electricity and one of the first cinemas in Scotland. It closed in 1938 when it was sold to a tailors and converted to a workshop. It is currently being conserved by a trust who regularly perform traditional shows in the auditorium. It is now protected as a category A listed building.

The Britannia Vaults was situated at 113 Trongate and 2 New Wynd. One of the earliest licensees’ was John Graham who was landlord in 1858.

When Gildard & McFarlanes’ theatre first opened it appears to have been called Willie Campbell’s Singing Saloon, within a few months John Brand took over and renamed it the Britannia Music Hall.

Before the Britannia was built there was licensed premises on this site and in 1847 John Couper Spirit Merchant was trading at 113-115 Trongate, he also ran a public house at 17 McAlpine Street / 6 William Street, Glasgow.

Britannia Music Hall. 1857-1938. Also known as the Panopticon.

Robert Hillcoat a well-known Wine & Spirit Merchant in town was approached by Albert Ernest Prichard (Panopticon,) he needed to find more space and beneath the pub on the ground floor. Prichard and Hillcoat after months of excavation it was ready to open 4th May 1908. The pub had iron cages with birds, reptiles and curios to attract customers the the Panoptican.

Facts…
The Britannia Public House Licensees’…
John Couper. 1847.
John Graham. 1858.
Robert Hillcoat. 1875.
William Hillcoat. 1899.
Archibald Bulloch Hillcoat. 1902.
George Burden (trustee for the late A B Hillcoat) trading as Robert Hillcoat & Sons. 1925.
Other Trongate public houses…
1837. William Naismith (Britannia the). 80 Trongate.
1843. Mrs A Hendry. 80 Trongate. (Britannia)
1846. Christiana Henry. 80 Trongate. (Britannia)
Bush, 80 Trongate, Robert Smith. 1846.
The Castle, 80 Trongate, John Kinloch, 1846.
Jenny Dean’s, 80 Trongate, Matthew Algie, 1846.
McVey’s Tavern, 80 Trongate, Bernard McVey, 1846.
Salutation, 80 Trongate, Thomas Seton, 1846.
Perth Arms, 80 Trongate, Hector Stephen, 1842.
The Union, 80 Trongate, Alexander McLennan, 1837.

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