22-24 West Nile Street, Glasgow. G1 2PW. Tel: 0141 221 6883.
The Brasserie. 1991.
The Brasserie was a great place in the 90s. It closed and was taken over by the China Buffet King and by 2015 became Bill’s.
Update… 2019.
It is still called Bill’s.
Do you remember this as the Brasserie? If so please get in touch.
1 Ardmaleish Road, Glasgow. G45 9JH. Demolished.
Bennigan’s. 1991.
Also known as Bennigans II, The Castle Arms.
Owned by the McFarlane Group, to read more click here.
Also see Bennigan’s, Gartloch Road.
The McFarlane Group had big idea’s for this establishment. It is sad to see that there is nothing left of this place.
Do you have any memories of Bennigans? If so please leave a comment.
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236 Swinton Road, Baillieston, Glasgow., G69 6DP. Tel: 0141 737 6830.
Brannigans. 1991.
This pub is better known as the Swinton Tavern.
To read the history of this old pub and view an old photograph of the Swinton Tavern, check back soon for our second book.
Update… 2005.
This pub is now called Tatlers.
Tattlers. 2005.
The Swinton Tavern. 2015.
This Easterhouse public house has had a few names changes over the years.
In the NEWS 1977…
I was gunned down after row in pub…
A teenager claimed today that he was shot by another youth after he had thrown beer over him in a pub.
Paul O’Neil (19) said he spent three weeks in hospital after the shooting and had several operations. At one stage he made a dying deposition to a sheriff in hospital.
During the incident outside the pub, Paul O’Neil’s brother James was also shot. O’Neil of 12 Aberdalgie Road, Easterhouse, was giving evidence at Glasgow High Court in the trial of brothers Thomas and William Bagan, who deny attempting to murder him and his brother James by shooting them in Easterhouse Road on October 9.
They are also accused of pointing the gun at a friend of the O’Neil’s, Mario Jacovelli, and trying to stab him.
ASSAULT
Thomas Bagan and a third man Francis Drummond are also accused of assaulting three people with intent to rob them in a house in Mount Florida on the same day.
O’Neil told the court that the beer throwing incident happened as he, his brother, and Jacovelli were drinking in Easterhouse’s Swinton Tavern.
“I had an argument with Thomas Bagan, and I threw beer over him,” he said. Later, as he and his friends were walking home, the Bagans appeared from a close. O’Neil said Thomas had a gun and his young brother a knife.
Cross-examined by Mr John Dowdall defending Thomas Bagan, O’Neil denied going up to Bagan with a hatchet and a razor and telling him he would be injured if he saw him in the street again.
But he agreed that he had been a member of a local gang called “The Aggro” for four years until he left it three years ago.
Consultant surgeon Thomas Menxies (54) of Glasgow Royal Infirmary, said that early on Saturday, October 10, he was called out to operate on the O’Neil’s, who had serious injuries.
The surgeon said without doubt both men would have died without medical treatment.
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1047 Gartloch Road, Glasgow., G33 5AL. Closed.
Bennigan’s. 1991.
This pub is now called the Roadhouse. 2007.
Owned by the McFarlane Group, to read more click here.
Also see Bennigan’s Ardmaleish Street.
Do you remember this pub? If so please leave a comment.
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41 Brandon Street, Glasgow.
The Brandon Bar. 1960s.
Note the name above the door “Elena” she was the licensee, Elena Breen.
The Brandon Bar was situated at the corner of Brandon Street and Annfield Street in the east end of the city.
In 1868 David Hamilton purchased a piece of ground on Annfield Street and erected buildings expressly for the licensed trade. The frontage of the business was in Annfield Street where the buildings were of two storeys, exclusive of a sunk flat. On going through the main entrance there was a spacious rectangular court yard surrounded on three sides by business premises and on the other by a high wall, which separated it from a range of four storey buildings in Brandon Street also the property of Mr Hamilton.
Mr David Hamilton. 1887.
The cellarage was massive in size, extending under the court yard and the entire premises. There were no obstructions except the buttresses which support the superstructure and the numerous recesses which these necessitate were all occupied with gantries on which were stored hogs-heads of beer and porter, from the leading brewers of Burton on Trent and Scotland as well as London and Dublin stout.
The cellars were huge with ten feet tall walls, the bottling of ale and beer was accomplished by one man who filled the bottles, another corked them, a third supplied the empties and removed the filled bottles and the fourth attached the labels. By this method two dozen bottles per minute were ready to be stored.
The aerated water department was very spacious, with a large output of lemonade and soda-water, sarsaparilla, seltzer and potash. In this department the driving power was obtained by an engine of eight horse power. The counting house another large room had large advertising show cards and calendars on the walls, next to the office was the wine store, where brandies wines and spirits were kept in bulk ready for dispatch. This pub started life as a wholesale wine, spirit and malt liquor trade. Mr Hamilton lived at Annfield Lodge, Birkinshaw, near Uddingston.
In 1885 the Brandon Street building was transformed into a full licensed premises, occupied by David Baxter, he also had premises at 262 Rutherglen Road and 220 Pollokshaws Road,south side. His wife took control of the business in 1887 and sold the business In 1914 Archibald Ferguson, she continued as licensee for the Rutherglen pub. Archibald struggled in this old pub during the war years.
George F Todd another well known licensee for the premises also had licence’s for pubs on London Road the old Railway Bar, Albion Street and West Campbell Street. George was secretary of the Trading as Improved Public Houses Scotland Ltd.
On 11 March 1953 Television Sets were allowed in Glasgow Pubs for the first time.
Glasgow Public House owners can, if they wish, install television sets in their premises, it was announced yesterday by the Glasgow Licensing Courts. But they must adhere to three conditions, that the sets be installed in rooms approved by the Chief Constable and not in Public Bars, that normal lighting be retained in the rooms, and that the sets be under the control of the licensee or his staff.
Two former Scottish Footballers, Torrance Gillick and Douglas Gray, were granted Public House licences by the court- Gillick for premises at 41 Brandon Street, and Gray for premises at 464 Paisley Road.
Glasgow has now one public house and two licensed grocer shops fewer than last year. The number of licensed premises in the city is 1350- 1068 Public Houses, 246 Licensed Grocers, two wholesale dealers in Spirits, Wines and Beers.
Torrance Gillick “Torry” born in 1915 died Dec 1971.
Torrance played on the wing for Rangers, Everton and Partick Thistle Football Clubs. Born in Airdrie, Gillick signed in 1933 at the age of 18, for Rangers, by manager Bill Struth. After playing for prominent Glasgow junior club Petershill F.C., he won Scottish cup winners medal in 1935, and that summer was sold to Everton for, then a record fee for the Club £8000, he stayed on at Merseyside until the Second World War. After the war he went back to Rangers, during that time earned 5 Scottish Caps, league Championship medals in 1939.
Gillick left Rangers for Partick Thistle in Aug 1951, he played one season with the Jag’s before retiring to oversee his business interest a Lanarkshire Scrap Metal Firm, and Public House at Brandon Street. Torrance passed away 12th Dec 1971, on the same day as fellow Rangers player Alan Morton.
In 1960 Elena McFadyen Breen was licensee in the Brandon Bar, the last holder of the certificate was James Gallagher, the pub was demolished in the 1970s.
CAN YOU HELP…
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145 London Road, Glasgow. G1 5BX. Tel: 0141 564 2911.
Braemar Bar. 1980s.
Braemar Bar. 1991.
The Braemar Bar an old established east end local. There has been a pub on this site since 1843. James Crawford the owner was a spirit dealer and a general merchant.
In the middle of the 1800s the McLaren family took it over, their name was positioned above the door for years well after the First World War. In the 1930s Andrew Jamieson was running the pub however the name Fletcher has been known in this pub for over forty years now and is still in the same family today. Some will still remember the Breen family. The pub has been up for sale for a few years.
The Braemar Bar on the left. c 1910
In the NEWS 1975…
Three accused under terror prevention act.
Three men appeared on petition at Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday charged with offences under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 1974.
William McGuigan (33), James Fegan (26) and Gerald McMorrow (19) are charged that in a house in Glasgow they solicited support, financial or otherwise, by distributing for sale posters supporting the Irish Republican Army.
Fegan was also charged with displaying and offering for sale in the Braemar Bar, 145-47 London Road, Glasgow, posters supporting the IRA.
Mr Joseph Beltrami, agent for all three accused, made no plea or declaration and Sheriff S. E. Bell remanded them in custody for further inquiries. The three accused are believed to be the first ever to appear before a Court charged in connection with the anti-terrorist Act, which came into force a few months ago.
Paisley police meanwhile are seeking a deportation order from Mr Roy Jenkins Home Secretary, for a man who was detained under the Act at Glasgow Airport on Saturday on arrival from Northern Ireland.
On the order being granted the man, Thomas Cupples, aged 27 of Belfast, will be returned to Northern Ireland. 1975.
Braemar Bar. 1970s.
Note the tenement building above the bar.
The Braemar Bar. August 2005.
Note most of the tenement building is gone.
Do you have any memories of this old pub? If so please leave a comment.
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