The Pot Still at one hundred and fifty-four Hope Street is identified by the towering gantry behind its bar, which displays over one thousand different whiskies. While the building has hosted a public house since at least eighteen…
Historic Glasgow Pubs
This walking tour leads you from the heart of the City Centre into the historic Merchant City, exploring Glasgow's legendary traditional pubs, Victorian architecture, and working-class social history.
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1. The Pot Still
2. Horseshoe Bar Glasgow
The Horseshoe Bar is defined by an island counter that measures one hundred and four feet, a feature widely cited as the longest continuous bar in Britain. Established on Drury Street in eighteen eighty-four by Cavalry Captain John…
3. Sloans
Sloans is recognizable by its cobbled courtyard, which sits tucked away behind an entrance off the ornate Argyll Arcade. This three-storey building has operated since seventeen ninety-seven, beginning its life as a coffee house known as…
4. The Steps Bar
The Steps Bar on Glassford Street is identifiable by its exterior cladding of vitrolite paneling and etched glass windows, set into the ground floor of an eighteenth-century building. Refitted in nineteen thirty-eight, this interior is a…
5. Scotia Bar
The Scotia Bar on Stockwell Street stands as the oldest surviving pub in Glasgow, dating back to seventeen ninety-two. You can pick it out by the weathered wooden beams lining its low ceiling and the vintage brass match strikers still…
6. Clutha & Victoria Bar
The Clutha and Victoria Bar is identified by the colorful murals painted across its facade on Bridgegate, near the banks of the River Clyde. This pub, which first received a license in eighteen nineteen, is one of the oldest in Glasgow.…
7. Babbity Bowster Bar/Restaurant/Hôtel
Babbity Bowster occupies a neoclassical town house on Blackfriars Street, identifiable by its Roman Doric doorway and columned facade. Built around seventeen ninety and attributed to architects Robert and James Adam, the structure is the…
8. The Saracen Head
The Saracen Head is a public house at two hundred nine Gallowgate, recognizable as a classic tenement corner pub. It carries the name of a famous eighteenth-century coaching inn that once stood nearby, where travelers like Samuel Johnson…