224 Hope Street, Glasgow. G2. Tel: 0141 332 2757.
Molly Malones. 2007.
Opened in 1995, this split level Irish Themed pub. This used to be the Telephone Exchange.
224 Hope Street, Glasgow. G2. Tel: 0141 332 2757.
Molly Malones. 2007.
Opened in 1995, this split level Irish Themed pub. This used to be the Telephone Exchange.
14 Hope Street, Glasgow, G2 6AA. Tel: 0141 847 0850.
McGinn’s Bar. 2008.
McGinn’s Bar takes it’s name from one of Scotland’s most famous folk singer’s Matt McGinn. Matt was born in the Calton in 1928 and passed away in 1977. He was not only a Scottish folk singer but was also well known for his song writing, he was also a poet and author and had over 100 songs. To find out more on Matt McGinn there is a fabulous website http://www.mattmcginn.info/
McGinn’s Bar. 2008.
154 Hope Street, Glasgow. G2 2TH. Tel: 01413330908.
The Pot Still. 1991.
Glasgow born William McCall owned these premises away back in 1868. William died at an early age and left his wife Janet as licence holder and son James to run this popular city center bar. In the 1880s Janet was living with her son James daughter Isabella and young William in Renfrew Street, they were fortunate enough to have help around the house from domestic servant Janet Currie.
Mrs McCall and her son James opened another pub in Govan Road in the 1890s and disposed of it later on. McCall’s bar on Hope Street sits on the corner of West Regent Lane, the pub was left to Alexander S Clelland as trustee of the McCall family during the 1930s. Mr Clelland also ran the Hayburn Vaults on Dumbarton Road at this time. Trustee’s of the family ran McCall’s Bar right up until the late 1960s, the last family member to hold the certificate was Mrs Isobel J L McCall Williams.
McCall’s Bar shortly after alterations in 1971.
The pub was sold to Tennent Caledonian Breweries who made extensive alterations and refurbished the pub which included a lounge bar at the back of the premises in 1971. Manager and manageress Mr & Mrs John Norton ran McCall’s for a few years until 1973 when William McClure took over the running of the bar.
In 1981 John Waterston took over and made alterations to the pub and introduced the name Pot Still, with a vast range of over 300 malt whiskies. The Waterston family are still involved in the Scottish Licensed Trade today. With this amount of scotch whisky to choose from many travellers came as far as London to have a nip of one of the best whisky bars in the city of Glasgow. Americans, Japanese, Swedes and Canadians are just a few of the nationalities to be found at the bar counter.
Another view of McCall’s Bar.
The pub had a name change to Cask & Still but was renamed back to The Pot Still.
Today over 500 whiskies from all over the country are stocked in this still famous whisky bar in Glasgow, good home made food is also available at lunch time at very reasonable prices. This is a must for all whisky lovers.
Manager and Manageress Mr & Mrs John Norton. 1971.
Interior view of the Pot Still. 1980s.
Pot Still. 2007.
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The owners took over a pub across the road and called it the Cask and Still.
335 Hope Street, Glasgow. G2 3PT.
MacConnell’s. 1991.
Situated at the top of Hope Street at the Cowcaddens end this pub sits on the ground floor of a tenement building built in 1906.
MacConnell’s. 2007.
29 Hope Street, Glasgow. G2 6AE. Tel: 0141 221 5728.
Park Lane. 1991.
There has been licensed premises here since 1876, landlady Mrs Aiton continued a successful business here for seventeen years. For many years this pub was known as the Central Bar named after the Central Station which is situated across the road from the pub.
At the end of the 1800s John Miller Goudie was licensee, he died in 1913 at the age of 76. He also owned a pub at Roslinlea, Cambuslang.
Photo of John Goudie coming soon.
Now Known as La Ferti’s. 2007.
La Fertis. 2008.
La Fertis. 2008.
111 Hope Street, Glasgow. G2 6LL. Tel: 0141 248 6645.
Adlib. 2008.
Adlib is part of the Baby Grand Group. It has an American Diner theme. There is also an Adlib at 33 Ingram Street, Glasgow. G1 1HA Telephone: 0141 552 5736.
This was formerly called Junkanoo and Pappa Zeb and The Europa.
Advert 1971.
In 1973 the name of this popular disco was called Europa.
Europa Advert. 1973.
Ad-Lib, 111 Hope Street, Glasgow, Advert from 1976.
In the NEWS 1979…
New Night Club for Glasgow…
Our CITY fathers will later this month sit down to consider an application for a new night club, I can reveal. But it’s the enigmatic guy behind the application that I find more interesting.
He’s Eddie Topalion, late of the Ad Lib restaurant, Hope Street. Eddie has been lying low since he sold the restaurant to Gino Romano for a tidy sum, but it was no secret that he had plans to open an entertainments complex with chartered accountant Brian McVey.
That was to have been in Springfield Court, but their plans were set back because Mr McVey was refused a gaming licence for a proposed casino on the grounds that he did not have any experience.
Peculiarly, Eddie has the experience, having managed a casino in London’s Soho district, but he insisted that he was not interested in the gaming side of things.
Now it would appear that Messrs McVey and Topalion have parted company. The site proposed for Mr Topalion’s licensed nightclub is in the basement of 33 Virginia Street.
“I want people to be happy,” was one of Mr Topalion’s favourite sayings, and with our city fathers’ consent he might just get the chance.
Junkanoo, 1991.
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