pubs
New threat to Old College A
n application is currently before the
council to demolish the Old College Bar, the oldest pub in Glasgow, together with surrounding buildings, and replace them with yet another block of flats.
A similar plan was put forward four years ago, and our position remains the same as then: the remaining historic fabric of the pub must be saved and integrated in context in any new development. We are not remotely convinced that this will happen with the planned block. Unlike the listed British Linen Bank next door, the pub has no well-connected lobby making the case for its preservation. Save the Old College!
Renton loses last pub The Central Bar in Renton has closed again and is up for auction. The future of this lovely but neglected pub, which is on CAMRA’s National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, currently looks extremely bleak.
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the Guzzler · spring 2021
