40 Bridgegate, Glasgow This establishment was known as The Wee Man in the 1970s and known as Blacks in the late 1800s. Selling Whisky to Children – 1889 Joseph Black, spirit merchant at 40 Bridgegate was brought up at the Glasgow Central Police Court in October 1889 charged with supplying three boys – James Goodwin […]
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Westering Winds
123 Bridgegate, Glasgow. G1 5HY. Tel: 01415523674. Westering Winds. 1991. The Westering Winds at the Bridgegate was once called The Ambleside Arms owned by the Hurrel family. The founder Daniel Hurrel took over this old established pub in 1892. To read more on the Hurrel family and their public houses, please check back soon for […]
Victoria Bar
159 Bridgegate, Glasgow. G1 5HZ. Tel: 01415526040. Victoria Bar. 1991. (Vicky’s) On the 13 April 1875 Thomas Neeson acquired a certificate to sell wines beers and spirits from these premises. The Neeson brothers Patrick and Thomas came from Ireland to set up business as publicans in the city of Glasgow. Patrick ran pubs in Rutherglen […]
Hugh McGrail
124 Bridgegate, Glasgow. The pub on the right hand side was Hugh McGrail’s bar, it sat at the corner of Aird’s Lane which was on the other side of the road from Hurrell’s old pub which is now the Westering Winds. Archibald Donely a publican from the High Street occupied these premises in the 1870s. […]