97 Ruchill Street, Ruchill, Glasgow.
The Ruchill Tavern. 1991.
This pub was used in the Scottish Sitcom Still Game as ‘The Clansman’ that was run by boaby the .
Opened in April 1965 by Beechwood Taverns Ltd. The licence holder then was Robert Porter and managed by Joseph Robb and his wife Netta. The pub was then known as the Gimlet, it consisted of an attractive lounge bar which could hold 50 people, a spacious public bar and an off-sales department.
The Ruchill tavern has now been demolished to make way for a new housing estate.
Mrs Netta Robb and Mr Joseph Robb, manageress and manager of the Gimlet. 1965.
Interior view of the lounge bar, Gimlet. 1965.
Saturday night entertainment when I was growing up in the mid 60s early 70s was the fights from the gimlet was almost directly across from the tenement i grew up in and the viking was another one but the name escapes me the drunks kicking the crap out of each other
Don’t be a boabby
Stop being a boabby
John Richmond managed it before moving to the Hills Hotel, Drumchapel in 1987-88. The public bar was called ‘The Rig’; l know because l was Boaby the barman from Feb 1979 to June 1988 when it closed.
Two pints prick!
I stayed right across the road in 100 Ruchill street 1 up from 1965-1984 & it was called the Gimlet
I stayed through tje back in hugo st it was brian inness ran it .
Boabby’s Clansman!
My granda mclintock drank in it early 80s great pub…Ruchill great place to grow up.
My dad John Carroll and his brothers: Billy, Brian, Toba and Neilly Carroll drank in The Gimlet in the late 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s.
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