27A Main Street, Cambuslang, Glasgow. G72 7EX. Demolished.
Cee Dee. 1991.
Cee Dee’s has now been demolished to make way for new housing accommodation.
Do you remember this Cambuslang venue? If so please leave a comment.
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27A Main Street, Cambuslang, Glasgow. G72 7EX. Demolished.
Cee Dee. 1991.
Cee Dee’s has now been demolished to make way for new housing accommodation.
Do you remember this Cambuslang venue? If so please leave a comment.
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209 Main Street, Rutherglen, Glasgow. G73 2HH. Closed.
The Bower Bar. 1991.
Bower Bar. 2005.
This is an image from the back of the premises.
Mr J Motion, Bower Bar, Rutherglen. 1963.
The above image was taken at the Benevolent function at Sloan’s restaurant in 1963. from left to right J Motion, R Purdie of Archibald Campbell Hope and King Ltd; H Campbell, Grosvenor Restaurant and C Russell.
Update 2008…
The Bower Bar with a for sale sign. 2008.
The Bower Bar has been closed for some time now.
Update November 2009…
The Bower Bar is now a restaurant called Bombay. Thanks to Norrie McNamee.
In the NEWS 1977…
Angry bar boss had the police in a panic.
Bar manager Joseph Docherty was furious when one of his customers hit him on the mouth with a glass full of beer at closing time. He went to the police station and pleaded to be allowed into the same cell as the man.
Doherty (31) even volunteered to spend a penny worth on the floor so that police could charge him and lock him up beside his assailant.
When that didn’t work he stole a policeman’s pocket radio and for the next three hours put the force in a panic. For Glasgow Sheriff Court was told today Doherty went back to the Bower Bar in Main Street, Rutherglen, and began broadcasting bogus messages.
His calls included two emergency “Code 21” messages which meant a policeman needed help urgently. And for three hours he had the staff in three control rooms working furiously trying to trace where the calls were coming from.
PLEAS
Doherty of 529 Springburn Road, Glasgow, admitted stealing a police radio from the CID room at Rutherglen police office on April 17. He also admitted wasting the time of the police by broadcasting and repeating false messages from the pub in Rutherglen.
Doherty, who had five previous convictions, was fined £60.
Mr Ian Angus, prosecuting, said the police told Doherty to go home after his pleas to be allowed into the cell to fight the man who had attacked him.
About midnight police received a “Code 21” message saying that a policeman needed assistance in East Kilbride Road, Rutherglen.
BOTHER
Seven policemen rushed to the scene from various places to find nothing there at all. Another “Code 21” message also proved to be false, and from then on there was a stream of messages some of them garbled, which put the police to a whole lot of bother.
Eventually the radio was traced to Doherty when police returned to the bar. Doherty told the Sheriff the pub was the roughest in Rutherglen and he couldn’t let his assailant get away with it because “everyone else would be trying it on.”
He had now left the pub business and was a self-employed taxi driver.
Update… 2018.
Another name change, it’s now called Padano, restaurant selling pizza, pasta.
Do you remember the Bower Bar? If so please leave a comment.
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228 Main Street, Cambuslang, Glasgow. G72 7EN. Tel: 0141 641 2407.
The Old Black Bull. 1991.
In 1880 William Cook arrived in Cambuslang to set up as a wine & spirit merchant and acquired a licence to sell wines, spirits and beer. This pub was known as the Black Bull.
Another member of the family James Cook also acquired a licence at the same time, his pub was known as James Cook Wine & Spirit Merchant.
The Old was taken away from this Cambuslang local.
One of the nice windows. 2005.
The Black Bull. 2005.
The Black Bull. 2012.
Do you know anything about this pub? If so please leave a comment.
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108 Main Street, Baillieston, Glasgow. G69 6AE.
The Auld Hoose, 1991.
This old pub went on fire around 2003, it was refurbished and renamed to the unusual name of By the Way.
By the Way, 2006.
By the Way, 2007.
The Baillie, 2015.
The Baillie, 2018.
Do you know anything about this old pub? If so please get in touch.
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92 Main Street, Baillieston, Glasgow. G69 6SL. Tel: 0141 573 0110.
Argyle Tavern. 1991.
Argyle Tavern. 2005.
The last time I was in the Argyle Tavern you could smell the disinfectant from the street at 10 paces away. The place is very clean, however the toilets were not. The bog smelt clean enough but there was broken tiles and a few cockroaches running about.
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57 Main Street, Thornliebank, Glasgow. G46 7SH. Closed Down.
The Arden, 1991.
This pub is reputed to be one of the oldest in the district, having been established around the 1850s. A new lounge bar was built in 1954 for Mr John I Lawson, formerly occupied by dwelling houses adjoining Mr Lawson’s original premises on the main thoroughfare. A corridor used only by staff connects the new lounge with the old bar. The interior decor of the new lounge was furnished with small tables of light oak with chairs to match, the wall seating around the room was covered in red leather. The floor was covered in a patterned Korkoid while the walls were panelled halfway up in hard board with plaster board above. The doorway screens were of walnut veneer. A small fireplace was fitted in one wall opposite the entrance. A triple mirror backed the gantry while the bar counter and front was of formica.
Left to right Mr Hugh Campbell manager, Mr James Finlay managing director of Aitken’s and John Lawson, 1954.
Interior view of the new lounge, 1954.
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In the NEWS 1979…
Comfort and Courtesy, That’s the aim at the New Arden…
Many years ago Thornliebank was a hamlet with a thirst. So a pub was built, and business was good. Decades later the rapacious demands of the developers became so great that the village grew and grew, like Pinocchio’s nose, and increased out of all recognition.
Not only did the village multiply, but so did its surrounding policies of Carnwadric and Arden. And with it grew the thirst of the inhabitants.
The growth was not lost on the suppliers, those wise men from the east who trade under the name Scottish and Newcastle Breweries. Tow years ago the realised that their little oasis was too small to slake the thirst of the populace in the comfort and style of which their name has become a byword.
They did something about it and now the “Oasis,” called the Arden Bar, has been remodernised, refurbished, and has doubled in size.
LUXURY
It is certainly good news for locals because the new premises are airy, spacious, comfortable to the point of luxury, and the lounge alone can seat 170 people.
Tommy Farquharson, who has been manager at the Arden for the past eight years, is obviously delighted with the new concept. “It gives people more room to breath, and of course to drink, and the initial reaction is splendid. People seem to like the new decor and it’s getting so busy that we might have to double the size again.”
The increased size of the new lounge has made it possible to put on entertainment and that is what they do four nights a week. Says Tommy: “We are featuring middle of the road entertainment, duos, trios, groups, comedians. I had thought of putting in a resident group but thought our customers might get tired of them.
So at present we are experimenting, by putting on different shows on each of the four nights. That way we can gauge what our customers like best, and ask them back again. It just wasn’t practical to put on entertainment before because we just couldn’t make it pay. Now we can, and it seems to be going down very well.”
At present the Arden doesn’t have an all-day drinking licence, but they hope that that will be rectified at the October sitting of the Licensing Court.
REASONABLE
If it is granted, Tommy intends putting on lunchtime snacks. Until now, he says, “We just haven’t had the space to do it. It won’t be anything too lavish but good food at a reasonable price.”
Apart from “ra bevy” probably the most important thing about any pub is its staff, and that is where the Arden really scores. Most of Tommy’s staff have been with him for many years and the accent is on courtesy and good service.
The Arden Bar fell into bad management with gang members frequenting the bar, the pub was finally closed down around 2013. Only the local people would frequent this bar as it ended it’s life in a very bad way the previous owners would never have let this happen.
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