The Coronation Bar.
570 Rutherglen Road, Gorbals, Glasgow.
The Coronation Bar 1960s.
The Coronation Bar was originally Andrew McWilliam's establishment. Mr McWilliam owned some of the busiest pubs in the city including premises at 12 Bridge Street, 4 Clyde Place, 16-18 Maxwell Street, 18-22 Canon Street, 46 South Coburg Street, 382 Argyle Street and 64 East Howard Street.
The pub was taken over by Henry Reid in the early part of the 1900s, when Henry died in 1911 his son William took over the business, William put his name above the pubs which then included Rutherglen Road establishment and 16 Bridgeton Cross. William continued in the Gorbals until the end of the First World War.
The Coronation Bar will be remembered by many locals when Donald MacLean owned it during the 1960s. When it was finally demolished by the City Council Improvement Scheme in the late 1960s Donald had a new pub built 500 yards away from the Coronation Bar in 1968 called the Phoenix.
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