It's great to see Clarke and Bell's Art Nouveau style saloon bar on Dumbarton Road in Partick finally getting a decent make-over. Built for Philip MacSorley (who also owned MacSorley's on Jamaica Street) in 1900 on the site of an older pub called the Clan Vaults, it's previously been known as The Roost, Wall Street, The Exchequer, The Fitter and Firkin, The Clinic and Boho.
Craignestock Mansions on London Road in the Calton area of Glasgow. This block of tenements, complete with rooftop drying green, was constructed a round 1900. In Glasgow, the epithet 'Mansions' was generally used to indicate a higher quality tenement building, as in Charing Cross Mansions or Anniesland Mansions.
The origins of the ground floor pub pre-date the current building by some time, and there are records of pub in this corner as far back as 1776. Back then, it was called the Old Herb Beer House and it was famous as being the first place to sell herb beer alongside alcoholic drinks in Glasgow. Herb Beer tasted and smelt like real beer, but contained no alcohol.
Love this original lift entrance in Burnet, Boston and Carruthers' 1905 Gordon Chambers on Mitchell Street in Glasgow. I especially like how the pediment in the metalwork mirrors the broken pediment in the stonework over the street entrance.
Love this stained glass on Ross's Original Bar on Mitchell Street in Glasgow. It's housed in Gordon Chambers which was designed by Burnet, Boston and Carruthers. It was built in 1905 and I presume this is also when the stained glass dates from.
Three-storey 1850s Classical tenement on Argyle Street in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. Originally designed by Alexander Kirkland, the pub on the ground floor is a newer addition, and was only established in 1884.
Tennent's Bar on Byres Road in Glasgow. Housed on the ground floor of an 1890s tenement building in a space specifically built to house it, Tennent's bar is a staple of life in the West End of the city. It was created by Hugh Tennent Junior, the grandson of Hugh Tennent of the Wellpark brewery on Duke Street in the East End of Glasgow.
The Arlington on Woodlands Road, Glasgow. A traditional bar in the west end of the city, it claims to be home to the Stone of Destiny, an ancient artefact on which the Kings of Scotland were crowned. Taken to England by Edward I at the end of the 13th Century, it was stolen from Westminster Abbey by four students in 1950 and allegedly ended up in this pub, with a newly minted fake being returned to the Abbey.
Love this lamp outside Victoria, a pub on Dumbarton Road in the Partick area of Glasgow. It seems old, but it doesn't appear on pictures of the bar taken in the early 1990s.
You find many strange things abandoned outside of Glasgow pubs on a Sunday morning, but this is the first time I've found a piano! Needless to say, someone had been sick on it.