1305 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow. G14 9UY. Tel: 0141 569 1026.
Victoria Park. 1991.
This look’s more like a petrol station from the outside than it does a bar.
Now Called Granny Gibb’s. Tel: same as above.
Read about the original Granny Gibb’s.
31 Ashton Lane, off Byres Road, Glasgow. G12 8SJ. Tel: 0141 572 1446.
Vodka Wodka is one of the trendy bars in Aston Lane. It was opened by Alan Tomkins in November 2001. If you like Vodka this is the place to go. It also serves beers, whisky and wine.
97-103 West George Street, Glasgow. G1. Tel: 0141 226 2441.
Check back soon for the history of this pub.
Elder Street, Govan.
Seven Years for a Pub hold-up.
How a Glasgow Public House manager was threatened with an open razor and put the safety of his 13 year old son in danger. At the High Court in Glasgow 1970, Lord Cameron, the judge, heard how Mr Doherty (31), an unemployed hairdresser at no settled address, and another man armed with a razor and held up the manager and his son and robbed the safe.
Doherty was sentenced to seven years imprisonment.
Doherty admitted that on October 1969 and an unknown person assaulted the manager Mr Kay in the Vine Bar, 22 Elder Street, Glasgow and struck him with a wooden baton and struck him down, threatened him with an open razor and threatened to kill him. He also admitted placing Mr Kay and his son in great danger and robbing him of six bottles of whisky and £60.
Mr John McCluskey, Advocate-deputy stated that Mr Kay opened the pub at 9am with his son. Mr Kay answered a knock on the door because he expected employees. Mr Doherty and an unknown man confronted him with pieces of wood. They forced him and his son into the public bar and committed the assault.
When son David tried to intervene but was stopped because the accused and the other man threatened Mr Kay with an opened razor.
Lord Cameron said to Mr Doherty ‘you took part in a deliberate raid on a public house, threatened Mr Kay and his son with a lethal weapon and robbed him. Fortunately the razor was not used.
York Street, Glasgow.
The Video Drome established 1987 closed 1991.
This popular night club was once competition for Henry Africas which was almost next door, however Henry Africas seemed a more popular venue.
The Video Drome had which seemed to be hundreds of TV monitors all over the place. It was formerly the Big Apple amusement arcade.
327 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. G2. Tel: 0141 442 6789.
The Viva. 2005.
