Edit Dry Whiteinch
In 1901 police raided three drinking clubs, the Argyll in Candleriggs, the Rob Roy in Glassford Street, and the Central Union in Gallowgate, and in 1903 new laws demanded registration for all such establishments.
But drink has always been an integral part of the Glasgow man's unwinding process and the clubs went on plying their trade, some with propriety, some downright disreputable.
In 1928 there were 74 licensed clubs in the city, five of them in officially dry Whiteinch.
Where alcohol was too expensive, shebeens sprouted. Back in the 1870s, one supplier hid her bottles of home made spirits in her crinoline and one enterprising domestic distiller kept the stuff in ''gas'' pipes in the walls.
Between the wars, when whisky prices rose steeply, shebeens got a new lease of life and even in 1943, it was reported that US service personnel were being sold rotgut by obliging locals.
But drink has always been an integral part of the Glasgow man's unwinding process and the clubs went on plying their trade, some with propriety, some downright disreputable.
In 1928 there were 74 licensed clubs in the city, five of them in officially dry Whiteinch.
Where alcohol was too expensive, shebeens sprouted. Back in the 1870s, one supplier hid her bottles of home made spirits in her crinoline and one enterprising domestic distiller kept the stuff in ''gas'' pipes in the walls.
Between the wars, when whisky prices rose steeply, shebeens got a new lease of life and even in 1943, it was reported that US service personnel were being sold rotgut by obliging locals.
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