This all changed in the 1950s and 1960s when many tenements were being demolished across the city. It's likely this one only survived becauae it was too expenalsive for the Glasgow Corporation (as the council was then known) to buy out the pub's licence.
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The lone Pinkston Bar tenement on Keppochhill Road in the north of Glasgow. The bar was opened in 1889 by the wine and spirit merchant Timothy Warren, with the current tenement being built in 1892. While this might now seem like an odd location for a bar, it was once a busy residential street lined with tenements, and the surviving metal rosettes on the building indicate it was also part of Glasgow's extensive tram network.
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Another of the rather wonderful modern stained glass windows in the Lismore Bar on Dumbarton Road in Glasgow. These windows were created by Yvonne Smith and Joe Boyle. This one represents the diasporia driven by the Highland Clearances between the 1750s and the 1860s.
Love this brasswork on the door of the Horse Shoe Bar on Drury Street in Glasgow. The JYW initials in the horse shoes at the top of the photo stand for John Young Whyte who took over the licence in 1923, although it had had its current name since the 1880s. It is a legal requirement when posting anything about the Horse Shoe bar to mention that, at 104 feet (32m), it is said to have the longest bar in Britain.
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An 1850s gushet tenement on the corner of Argyle Street and Kent Road in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. The small mural is of the legendary Glaswegian sit-com character Rab C. Nesbitt, and reflects the fact that when the pub on the ground floor was known as Two Ways in the 1990s, its exterior was used for Rab's local in this programme, despite the fact it was set on the other side of the Clyde in Govan.
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Gallus on the corner of Church Street and Dumbarton Road in Glasgow. At one time, this bar was known as Reid's Bar (Pertyk), or Reids of Pertyk, after the publican Thomas C. Reid. Reid also owned pubs on Gascube Road, Argyle Street, New City Road, Hope Street and Maxwell Street, a number of which were also called Reid's Bar, hence the need to add a qualifier to the name of each one.
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Another of the rather wonderful modern stained glass windows in the Lismore Bar on Dumbarton Road in Glasgow. These windows were created by Yvonne Smith and Joe Boyle.
After its liberation by four Glasgow University students, rumour has it the stone ended up in this bar, hidden beneath a seat.
While official records say the stone was eventually returned to London, local legend says that this was a copy and that the original remains in the Arlington, where, as advertised on the sign outside it, it's now on display.
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The Arlington Bar on the ground floor of a tenement which was originally known as Arlington Place when it was built around 1860 (and still bears this name on a nameplate on its roofline).
The pub has been there pretty much as long as the building, but is perhaps best known for its role in the theft of the Stone of Destiny, on which Scottish kings were traditionally crowned, from Westminster Abbey in 1950.
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Love this neon sign on the Star Bar at Eglinton Toll on the Southside of Glasgow. I don't know how long it's been there, but I think it's relatively new as it doesn't appear in photos I took a couple of years back.
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