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Post by Waverley on Dec 10, 2007 14:05:19 GMT 1
The Coffin Bar was in Whitevale Street directly facing the swimming baths. This is a photocopy of a photo which was in a book about the bar which was loaned to me by my old friend Jimmy Porter of the Glesga Barras...sadly someone stole the book from Jimmy soon after I returned it to him. The pub was used by visitors to Glasgow over the years including many boxers and people from the folk scene who would perform their acts in the upstairs lounge. Buffalo Bill Cody is reputed to have used it on numerous occasions.
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Post by bettyb on Dec 10, 2007 15:51:15 GMT 1
You won't believe me Charlie but Stewart and i were just talking about The Coffin Bar just the other day, we all went there when we Visited Friends Big May and wee Fred Owen ,a way back in the late Fifties and early Sixties. bettyb
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Post by amethyst on Feb 7, 2009 17:03:12 GMT 1
Hi Patrick, I used to go swimming at Whitevale baths too :-) After work a few girls at the office would go there and come out and cross the road to the wee chip shop and get a few big penny onions and fritters with tomato,and brown sauce and walk home to Camlachie feeling great. Oh HAPPY DAYS! My dad made the BEST fritters in the world!!The chip shops were good but i always told him and this pleased him always your fritters are to die Da! XXXXXXXXXX
Amethyst
Amethyt
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Post by holywell37 on Feb 7, 2009 21:29:33 GMT 1
When i was a boy, the pub was called the coffin but the name above the door was "the ring bar". I remember going in the bub selling the pink times on saturdays and seeing all the photo's on the walls of world famous boxers' the only one i can still picture is primo canerra. they were all taken in the pub, i think.
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Post by holywell37 on Feb 8, 2009 18:39:31 GMT 1
The swing park was on the opposite side of the road from the cobbles.
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Post by amethyst on Feb 8, 2009 22:33:46 GMT 1
My mouth is watering Patrck for your hot pies and peas,and pie and beans. :-)
Amethyst
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