13 Walls Street, Glasgow. G1 1PA. Tel: 0141 552 2101.
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42-46 North Frederick Street, Glasgow. G1 2BG. Tel: 0141 559 4331.
The Ark.
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Partick.
The Ark Inn, Partick. c 1850.
The Old Bridge at Partick by William Simpson (1823-1899.)
The watercolour shows the view from Partick looking across the River Kelvin to Yorkhill, c 1850. The house in the foreground was once a Tavern called the Ark. Behind it can be seen the arches of the Old Partick Bridge, built in the late 16th century and demolished in 1895 when access was cut off by the construction of the Lanarkshire & Dumbartonshire Railway. The building just peeping out on the right from behind the inn is the Bishop Mills with distinctive wheafsheaf finials on the gables. It was built on the site of an old mill in 1837 and renovated and converted to contain twenty flats 150 years later. Thanks to the Mitchell Library.
2200-02 Paisley Road West, Glasgow.
This drawing was sketched by Laird-Neon a neon sign makers, 117 Bath Street, Glasgow.
The Argosy was built on the grounds of the old Universal Garage in 1957. The Argosy was advertised as being a modern Roadhouse. Richard Brash was licensee, he formerly owned a pub at 78 Nelson Street in the southside of the city, when the pub was demolished he moved to the new Argosy. He also owned pubs at 245 Hospital Street and 233 Cowcaddens.
Many will still remember these pubs in the 1960s as The Cathcart Bar, 245 Hospital Street at the corner of 53 Cathcart Road and the Subway Bar at 233 Cowcaddens at the corner of 1 Cambridge Lane.
139 Pollok Street corner of 75 Ardgowan Street, Glasgow.
In 1898 Robert Alexander Nixon was landlord, he continued to run a successful business here until 1910. The rent he paid per annum was £49.00.
Robert Moodie then took over the pub, he also ran a good pub which survived through the two World Wars. In 1947 Robert was living at 24 Bruce Road, Pollokshields. The pub was taken over in the 1950s.
Mr George Greig was serving the locals in the 1960s.
One of the last landlords was Mr A McPherson before the premises were demolished in the late 1970s. Mr McPherson also ran pubs at 1287 Gallowgate (The Cross Bar) and 471 Scotland Street.
This 1936 group of Directors of the Glasgow and District Licensed Trade Defence Association with friends photographed at Glencoe on the occasion of the annual excursion. Directors include Messrs James Denholm, president, Archibald McNiven and P B Jackson, vice-president; Lawrence Brady, David Spiers, Peter Wharry, Alex Graham, Kenneth McLean, William Jamieson, Alex Lawson, Robert Moodie, D Stewart, and John Holmes, while others well known in the trade are Messrs George McCartney, Douglas A Wood, Jock Mills, Murdock Macrae, James Paterson and William Cosgrove.
Archibald McPherson ran this pub in 1887. In 1889 Robert A Burnside took over the property and turned it into a very popular bar.
31 Queen Street, Glasgow. G1 3DX. Tel: 0141 204 3189.
Archaos Night Club. 2009.
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253 Argyle Street, Glasgow. G2 8LY. Tel: 0870 240 7528.
The Arches. 2008.
The Arches is reputed to be one of Scotland’s largest night clubs, with three floors, the top bar is called the Sky Bar.
The Arches officially opened for business as an arts venue in May 1991. The building had originally been converted as a temporary exhibition centre for European City of Culture celebrations in 1990 and some theatre was performed as part of the exhibition’s events.
The exhibition, Glasgow’s Glasgow, ended in November 1990 and the building was returned to a bare, empty space. In early 1991, theatre director, Andy Arnold, took on the lease in his own name and produced two theatre shows for Mayfest, the now defunct Glasgow arts festival. The shows were Noise and Smoky Breath – a devised piece based on a book of Glasgow poems and songs – and the Scottish premiere of Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
A few months later, Arches Theatre was formally established as a registered company and non profit making charity – Andy has been its Artistic Director ever since.
The building was very damp and cold in those days and there was practically no public funding available to contribute to running costs, let alone sort out any building repairs. The feeling was that the enterprise would last only a few months before a commercial developer, night club impresario, or even car parking company would move in to take on the lease. However, an incredible energy immediately enveloped this new arts venue and all who got involved with it.
A constant stream of events of all types were instigated. Arches Theatre Company produced a stream of work including absurd and irreverent theatre productions like Richard’s Cork Leg and Purple Dust and site specific work like The Crucible, Caligari, and Metropolis: The Theatre Cut, which was staged throughout the whole building with a cast of 100 actors and musicians. A new theatrical night club began, Café Loco with cabaret mayhem, Mischief La Bas, Gods of Glam, Stereo MCs, Scottish Sex Pistols, and the like every Saturday night, together with the forerunner of today’s Pressure – the now legendary Friday Night with Slam. Exhibitions and visitor attractions were set up to occupy the largely derelict top half of the building and included Dinosaurs Alive, The Iron Bru Pop Video Exhibition, and an event which quickly acquired cult status – Alien War.
During the first few years, four full time staff were employed, the bar was run by a local publican and any furniture was begged, stolen or permanently borrowed from the likes of Tramway and other public buildings, where old chairs and tables were unearthed from their basements. We felt like squatters in those days – artists and performers claiming an extraordinary home while always feeling that we were living on borrowed time – waiting for the bailiffs to arrive.
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Up To Date News:
18/05/2015.
The Arches have had bad press for over a year now. After the death of a 17 year old Regane MacColl died as a result of taking Mortal Kombat ecstasy. Young people know the dangers of taking drugs in any form. It’s a shame that it takes a death for people to take head of the problem of drug taking in Glasgow’s Night Clubs.
For over 10 years I worked in most of the Night Clubs in the City of Glasgow. On an average night I would be in 6 different clubs. What I noticed very early in my job was that drugs were easily get in all the clubs in town.
The drug dealers in Glasgow had their clubs covered and if another dealer tried to force their way into a club there was war. On many occasions I witnessed many fights and stabbings in and outside clubs where the dealers were protecting their area.
For a drug dealer to have covered a night club meant many thousands of pounds could be made over one weekend.
Different night clubs in different areas in town were covered by different drug dealers. I met a few of them over the years I worked in Glasgow’s nite life. Most of them were very nice and pleasant but if you got on the wrong side of them, well lets say you would be better off not going into town.
Back to the Arches, the police and authorities want to close the night club down. To me I think the authorities want to make an example of the Arches and send a message out to other Clubs in town, if you allow drug dealers into your premises we will shut you down.
Well do you know what a drug dealer looks like, could you spot a dealer in a crowd of a few hundred party goers.” No I didn’t think so.”
When I worked in the clubs I could spot a drug dealer out and I got to know what to look for, but the ordinary clubber couldn’t unless you were an abuser yourself.
For the closure of the Arches will not change anything. The Arches is not just a night club, it is a world-renowned arts centre and vital part of Scotland’s cultural economy.
122 Glebe Street corner of 109 Kennedy Street, Townhead, Glasgow.
This old Glasgow pub was established in the 1860s owned by wine and Spirit Merchant John Hutcheson. the pub sat at the corner of Glebe Street and Kennedy Street. Members of the same family took over the business, in the 1890s William Hutcheson owned the premises, William lived in the poss Charing Cross Mansions. He also owned premises in nearby 100 Glebe Street.
Mr Hutcheson died in 1900, his son David then took over the business but only kept it until 1903. He sold the pub to manager Archibald McNiven. The McNiven family kept the pub until it was demolished in the 1960s. Donald McNiven was the last publican to own the pub. Other pubs that the family owned were
Mr Archibald McNiven. 1936.
To read more on Archibald McNiven and his other pubs see Argyll Arms Paisley Road West.
Stockwell Street.
Andrew Purdon’s Tavern. C 1840.
The “Best Ale Under The Sun” was said to have been served at the Tavern which was located in the building shown above. It stood at the southern end of Stockwell Street close to the River Clyde and had a thatched roof and crow-stepped chimney stacks. A double outside staircase and many colourful signs at the front of the building were also attractions to potential customers. In its heyday the landlord was Andrew Purdon. Cows were milked in the forecourt and nursemaids would queue with the children in their care, the wee ones clutching their tinnies to be filled with warm milk. Thanks to the Mitchell Library.