Possibly at Rutherglen Road corner of Thistle Street, Gorbals.
Customers of the New Era Bar, Gorbals, 1951.
This picture was taken prior to their outing in the summer of 1951 to Dumfries. The landlord of the New Era Bar at that time was John Scanlan.
DO YOU KNOWN WHERE THIS PUB WAS. iF SO PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.
16 Woodhill Road, Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. G64 1JL. Tel: 0141 762 2262.
Opened in 1965 The Nairn was built to cater for weddings and functions in the area. It was equipped with three bars a function room and a large kitchen. Scandinavian decor was a feature of the lounge bar, a wall separated it from a small cocktail bar in broken wrought iron work with artificial climbing plants.
The ceiling of the cocktail bar was railed into sections by narrow black oak beams, the walls were panelled in elm intersected with ebony strip wood. The bar front was of elm wood with a black speckled bar counter.
The attractive public bar which also has lounge cocktail bars and a large function room which can accommodate 150 people.
The walls were decorated with prints of vintage cars, the light fittings suspended from the ceiling were replicas of old oil lamps. On the upper floor was the function room with a brides room for weddings.
There was also a small stage at the end of the room. Adjacent to this was the large kitchen. Another feature of the Nairn was the stereophonic music system which was wired throughout the whole building.
The Nairn was owned by the West of Scotland Taverns part of J & R Tennent group and managed by John Middleton.
Update 2008…
Passing through Auchinairn Road and noticed that the old Nairn bar has a new name “The Campsie.” Named after the Campsie hills which can be seen from this area. The Campsie still has the 1960s feel to it. This pub has always looked like a function suite than a pub, just the way they the owners intended it to be in 1965.
Update 2010…
The last time I seen this popular bar a new sign was needed above the door. Indeed they must have read this page, even though it took them two years to do it.
Update 2015…
Again the last time I passed The Campsie bar it had a new sign and this time a sign and a different colour too. The interior has not changed that much since the 1960s, this is not a negative but a good thing that the owners have kept it so well.
Do you have any memories of this 1960s lounge bar? If so please leave a comment.
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144 West Street, Glasgow. Demolished.
This photograph was taken in 1965, Eric Caldow, Ranger and Scotland footballer, scrapes £27 7 shillings from the mirror, proprietor Mr T Blue catches the coins in a bucket. The coins were stuck on the mirror by dipping it in your pint and when dried stuck like glue. The customers collected this amount for the home of the mentally handicapped children at Merchiston Hostel.
In 1891 Jane Mitchell was landlady of this popular West Street howff. Mrs Mitchell continued as licensee until the end of WW1.
During the 1930s David Craig ran this old pub followed by his wife Jean who held the licence from 1945.
One late February morning in 1956, just after opening time a three ton lorry and a Corporation bus collided outside the pub, the truck shot tight through the lounge window, showering glass and plaster all over the bar. The lorry became embedded in the masonry and could not be moved until the public house wall had to be shored up. A column supporting the four storey tenement above had been snapped.
Four persons were injured as a result of the crash. The fire brigade and gas board workers were called out in case a fire broke out as there was flooding fuel from the truck and escaping gas from one of the pipes. A no smoking order was issued by the police to the crowd of onlookers.
Inside the premises the burglar alarm was ringing, the trucks horn blared and the lights flickered, the plaster from the ceiling began to rain down on the bar.
65 year old Mrs Craig the proprietrix said “I got the shock of my life, I thought the whole place was collapsing.”
In spite of all this Mrs Craig continued to serve the customers with drink, while the lorry was still embedded in the lounge.
Interior view of the Norwood Arms, note the lorry embedded in the lounge.
Group of Glasgow Licensed Trade Golf Club members, front row left to right Mr H W G Kerr, Queen Anne., Mr A Hart, W MacNair & Co. Ltd., Mr J Blair, W MacNair & Co. Ltd., Back row Mr Norman Smith, Planet Bar, Mr T Salton, Smiddy Bar., Mr T Blue, Norwood Bar, Mr W Newall. 1966.
Glasgow Licensed Trade Golf Club at the Grand Hotel, front row Norman Smith, Mr P Smith, H W G Kerr, Mrs A Hart, Mr T Salton, rear Mr T Blue, Mr V Adkins, Mr W A Simpson, Mr A Hart, Mr J Escourt, Mr B Barclay, Mr J Logan, Mr W Redpath, Mr W Newall, Mr J Ryburn. 1966.
Do you remember this old pub? If so please leave a comment.
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28 Saltmarket, Glasgow.
This is a watercolour by W R Mainds showing the back of a timber building at 28 Saltmarket which housed the Old Nightingale Tavern, reputedly Glasgow’s first singing saloon. Two women are standing in the doorway of the building opposite the saloon. Thanks to the Mitchell Library.
Singing Saloons were especially common on the Saltmarket, offering a cheap and cheerful alternative to music halls with no entrance fee and the added attraction of cheap drink. Patrons sat at long wooden benches and were entertained with renditions of popular songs of the day and sometimes by comic turns. An entertainer who failed to please the audience would have been subjected to a barrage of abuse and rotten tomatoes thrown at them. These saloons gained a reputation for rowdiness, most had been closed down by the 1890s when the City Council’s redevelopments in the area.
32 Great Western Road, Glasgow.
The New Normal Bar, 32 Great Western Road, after the great fire 1972.
Owner Jimmy Hargan opened this pub after his old premises were demolished, the Normal Bar at number 5 New City Road, and called his new bar “The New Normal Bar” at the start of Great Western Road near the junction of St. Georges’ Cross. The pub was demolished along with the tenement building after a great fire.
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In the NEWS November 1972…
Demand for greater precautions after big fire…
Mrs Nancy Ballantyne, convener of Glasgow Corporation police and fire committee, has called for a co-ordination committee to deal with all aspects of fire fighting after a tenement fire on Saturday in which a fireman died trying to rescue a woman, who also died, and 31 other persons were injured.
Twenty-seven firemen have lost their lives in the past 12 years fighting fires in the city. Another councillor, Bailie Albert Long, has called for a full investigation by corporation officials to see if all proper fire precautions were taken.
Mrs Ballantyne’s request is made in a letter which she will hand to Mr William Gray, the Lord Provost, today. In the letter, she will ask that special attention should be paid to all disused property, particularly empty shops beneath occupied tenements.
The fireman who died on Saturday, Sub-Officer Adrian McGill, was said yesterday to have sacrificed his life trying to save the woman, who was trapped on the top floor of a burning tenement in Maryhill Road, Glasgow.
DEMOLITION
The woman, Mrs Alice Mulgrew, aged 48, died after she was brought down from a narrow ledge outside her home by other firemen. In her letter, Mrs Ballantyne refers to the fact that Sub-Officer McGill is the eighth fireman to die this year in fires in the city, seven have died at a warehouse fire in Kilbirnie Street in August.
She will ask the Lord Provost to consider what steps might be taken to have all derelict propery demolished, to have special precautions taken where shops stood empty beneath occupied tenements to ensure the safetly of firemen and the safe entry of fire-fighting vehicles through narrow lanes which were sometimes blocked by cars.
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