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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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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So, was there a Pink(s) Town? So many uses of ‘Pinkston’ the name, all over the area.
Glasgow’s city fathers seemed forward looking with at least two power stations of their own to supply trams & subway.
Pinkston power station & the one near the South rotunda whose name escapes me.
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Glaswegian living in a wee place called Milton of Campsie.
There were numerous mills probably thanks to the regular reliable water supply cascading off the Campsie Hills, hence Milton.
I’m having fun researching place’s history and this morning was told Nappy Lane behind our house is nothing to do with babies garments but was derived from NAPoleonic war prisoners being brought here and put to work in local quarries.
@smsm1 I discovered once that Falkirk is actually about 5 smaller villages glued together - it has what, 3 train stations?
Did the tram travel between them?
The Isle of Bute had trams!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothesay_and_Ettrick_Bay_Light_Railway
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