GLASGOW

Glasgow pubs around Tollcross Road

GLASGOW: Tollcross Road

The trail uses the railway from Glasgow Queen Street to Carntyne and then a walk to Tollcross Road pubs via a refreshment stop on Shettleston Road (trail 21)

From Carntyne station walk under the bridge and town to Shettleston Rd turning left along it to The Town Tavern. Cross the road and there is a 14 minute (th e pubs are much closer together) walk down Wellshot Road past Tollcross Park. At the lights at the end of the park turn left. A minute along the road and Bells Bar is across the road. Crossing back over and above the supermarket is Bar Roma, Cross over again and there is the Waverley Bar and a further two minutes on the same side is the Strathspey Bar. Crossing over agains and along is The Kimberley Tavern.

Cross over and turn down Causiewayside St for four minutes to Elder’s Bar. Return to Tollcross Road and continue along to the right to The Fullarton Hotel. Continue along to the roundabout and turn left for a 15 minute walk to Shettleston Road and turning right at the lights find the The Railway Tavern. Shettleton station is across the road up past Lidl’s.

The Town Tavern is a busy entertainment and food place. The entrance is in the middle of the front of the building. To right of door is a balustrade fenced off area for lots of seats and tables for sitting and dining, the entrance to which is further into the room opposite the servery. Round to left from the door is some seating and large TV.  Then the L-shaped counter starts a few metres along and curves round to go up along left back wall. Comfy chair style stools line the counter. The counter ends at the kitchen while pub continues opening to more dining area. A large pillar opposite servery helps split room into bar area and dining. The right-hand side dining stretches up the full length of pub. Right at the back of the dining area behind a balustrade is a pool table.

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One of The Mighty Local group of 83 pubs.

History

Heavy: John Smiths Lager:  Birra Moretti; Stella,  Tennent’s;  Carling Cider:   Strongbow                             Guinness

Bells Bar is a pleasant one roomed pub with a cetnral entrance and windows to both sides. Inside underneath the windows is brown banquette seating with seperate padding for back. This seating goes arond the left side of the room as well which is seperated into three parts by partitions. Large wooden tables and stools are available with the seating. The servery is in the middle of the right wall. It has a dark wooden gantry and counter with brass footrest and stools along it.

Light: Tennent’s 60/- Heavy:    Caledonia Best Lager:     Tennent’s Cider:      Magners;  Magners Dark Fruit Guinness

Bar Roma is a modern bar above the Coop supermarket. Up the stairs at the entrance to the bar are a couple of comfy sofas. Once inside the rectangular servery takes up the centre of the room. It has a tall counterof black marble with a grey front and stools along it. Just inside the door there are four booths to the right and round to the left is green banquette seating along the wall and dining tables with another row of tables between there and the servery. In the left hand far corner is a stage for bands, discos etc. Continuing round the room is stripped banquette seating and tables. Then a pool table and some dart boards make up the rest of the room. Black, grey and silver is the predominant decor in the high ceiling room with lots of TVs for sport.

Heavy:  Caledonia Best Lager:   Tennent’s ; Stella; Birra Moretti Cider: Strongbow; Strongbow Dark Fruits; Inch’s Guinness

The Waverley has a large bar to the left with servery on the left and large lounge to the right with servery on the right and both of the service areas connected. The dark brown counter has brass foot and elbow rails. After the servery in the bar is a pool table, a door to the lounge and door to the beer garden. Both lounge and bar have dark wood counter, gantry, tables and seating facing red banquette seating around the room.

Heavy:    Caledonia Best Lager:     Tennent’s; Carling Cider:      Magners;  Magners Dark Fruit Guinness

The Strathspey has an central oval servery mainly serving the bar area presnting a hoeshoe shape thereand with a considerably smaller servery to the lounge. There is a dark wood central gantry and a lighter wood cbar counter with stools around it. There is grey banquette seating around the walls of the bar. The walls are decorated by amusing sayings on card.

Heavy:    Caledonia Best Lager:     Tennent’s Cider:        Blackthorn                   Guinness

The Kimberley Tavern is a long thin bar room. Banquette seating to the right of door under the window. The servery then starts against rge right side wall. Opposiye the servery are four wooden tables with comfy chairs and silvery banquette seating. The black/grey/silvery decor is continued beyond the servery and up three steps to seatin then up another three steps to more seating.

Heavy:    Caledonia Best Lager:     Tennent’s ; Menabrea Cider:      Magners;  Magners Dark FruitCaledonia Stout ; Guinness

Elder’s Bar a pleasant small bar with a lounge to the left and bar to the right with some outside seatin to left of building. All recently done up in black banquette seating around the room with black comfy chairs, stools and black wooden tables. The servery for the bar is to the right of the entrance while the lounge servery is to the left so that the same space serves both rooms. The walls above the seating and ceiling are white /silvery decor

Heavy:      Tennent’s Special Lager:     Tennent’s Cider:      Magners Guinness

Fullarton Hotel has a large outside seating area at the front of the building. Once at the building there is a door to the right and one straight ahead. Going in the first door leads you to the servery on the right. There is tall stool seating round to the right of the door with a glass helve looking out of the window. The servery is then along the right wall. Continuing round the room and opposite the servery is a long section with four tables and chairs. Directly opposite the servery is the lift for the hotel.

Going left from the entrance is a large area within the bay window of the original building making a pleasant seating area including couches and tables. Beyond this part is the restaurant which is also enetered by the second door fom the outside.

Heavy:    Caledonia Best Lager:     Tennent’s ; Heverlee; Bud Light; Menabrea; Mahou Cider:      Outcider;  Blackthorn                   Guinness

 The Railway Tavern and is featured in CAMRA’s book “Scotland’s True Heritage Pubs” because of its interior. Once in the door there is a lovely oval island bar running to the right with stools around counter. The oval has two serving areas. At the entrance side of the oval there is a door to the right where there is a small room with the outside windows along the front wall. This has a counter which has four small round wooden tables with wooden chairs opposite it. The remainder of the counter curves round to the rear of the room and along. There is a door near the end of the wall accessing an outside seating area. The island bar counter does not join the two areas at the far end as there is a very small room which was a small off-licence section here. To the left of entrance is the first of two small square sitting rooms with seating and tables. The second is next door opposite the curve of the oval. There is a tiled floor and a wooden wall to a low dido then white above to low ceiling. The ceiling has dark beam edging and central thick beam running the length of the pub.

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History CAMRA Heritage pub

Heavy:    Caledonia Best;  Tennent’s Special Lager:     Tennent’s Cider:      Magners;  Blackthorn                   Caledonia Stout ; Guinness