Bye Bye to the Griffin Bar

[DickyHart]

well folks it last orders for the Griffen Bar in Bath street after 100 years, always done a nice pint of lager in there. The company who own it Swallow have went into administration.

I always liked the decor inside, no doubt it will get bought over and poncied up.

[Pripyat]

Yip Dickyhart, another sad loss of a traditional bar in Glasgow.
Soon it will all be "nailbars", with their MDF

[escotregen]

It was one of those Glasgow institutions I always meant to drop into but I never did.

I see you mention it was owned by the Swallow Group. Ah yes, that was the group whose Chief Executive was using the company money to launch a legal challenge to the Scottish Executive's smoking ban... now there was a guy and a company with their finger on the pulse of business and social life; surprising the've gone bust intit?

[John]

This is tragic. Could we all chip in and buy is to preserve it as HG HQ?

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[HollowHorn]

Me & Dicky, Kitty& Pol, & at least three others had a beer in there after the Mitchell (spelt wrang) tour, what a bloody shame, places like that are a Glasgow institution ffs. Stop the rot. Fukkin multinashinals.

[Fossil]

Is the bar or even the front listed>?

-F-

[Josef]

Is the bar or even the front listed>?

-F-

Ach, tell Scottish Heritage that it's mentioned in 'Espedair Street' (the only popular book in world history to mention Paisley, I believe) and Bob will be your uncle, no doubt

[Dexter St. Clair]

Swallow ave been trying to sell for years buit the asking price was too high. It did not fit theri brand as they say.

but hey what about the biscuits

http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1582502006

[Josef]

but hey what about the biscuits

http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1582502006

I presume your interest is in the preservation of the Smashing Orangey Bits, Dex ?

[DVF]

Damn!

Spent many a World Cup game in there. Free pies at half time, fab.

[cumbo]

another fav for HG aftenoon drinkers closed last week:

[Dexter St. Clair]

but hey what about the biscuits

http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1582502006

I presume your interest is in the preservation of the Smashing Orangey Bits, Dex ::): ?

Somebody in the work squandered the tea money on Orange Penguins. I had to double my normal inatke to get rid of them as nobody would eat them. A rubbish biscuit.

I'm a fan of Dark Tunnocks caramel wafers and the long gone college creams.

[marginalwalker]

another fav for HG aftenoon drinkers closed last week:

Do you mean HG work avoiders milking the state?..



Good pub that was. Had a few good evenings in there some included Sydney Rosewater.

A lot of good pubs have gone since I was 18.

[Sydney Rosewater]

Ross's is/was shit i hated it. Donno why.

[scaryman2u]

Is the bar or even the front listed>?

-F-

Most times i`ve been in the Griffen the bar was listed or maybe it was me