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Findlay's son, Robert Findlay Jr., developed the nearby Virginia Buildings used by early-19th-century tobacco traders in Glasgow. [3] Findlay Jr. sold 42 Miller Street to the family firm of Findlay, Hopkirk and Co. during this development. The house was later occupied by William Connel, who joined the business then trading as Findlay, Duff and Co.
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In 1843, the Glasgow and Ship Bank merged with the Union Bank of Scotland and the building then became the headquarters of the merged bank. [ 1 ] The building was altered internally to create a telling room to a design by James Salmon in 1853 and then re-fronted to a design by John Burnet between 1876 and 1879. [ 6 ]
There are shops and offices, and numerous open air cafés and restaurants. Home to Glasgow's only restaurant with a rooftop terrace, 29 Glasgow is a Members Club with a publicly accessible reataurant and function room. The square is also the home of the Western Club, whose restaurant is also open to the public.. [14]
The Counting House, part of the brewery complex in central Cork, Ireland. The Cork Porter Brewery was founded in 1791 by Beamish, Crawford, Barrett, and O’Brien. [7] [8] They purchased an existing brewery from Edward Allen (the son of Aylmer Allen who had run the brewery until his death in May 1791) on a site in Cramer's Lane that had been used for brewing since at least 1650 (and possibly ...
Anchor's headquarters building in St Vincent Place, Glasgow, designed by James Miller and completed in 1907, now a restaurant bearing the Anchor Line name. Shipping magnate Lord Runciman saved the company, letting it retain its identity. In the Second World War the Admiralty requisitioned Cameronia and Transylvania as armed merchant cruisers.
He started selling his mother's handmade lace door-to-door and gradually headed north, settling in Glasgow. By the 1940s, Stakis was involved in his first restaurant, the Victory in Glasgow, whose affordable prices began to change the way Scottish people dined out. By the 1960s, he had a chain of thirty restaurants and hotels throughout Scotland.
The site changed hands to the Luke family of goldsmiths, managers of the soaperie in Candleriggs and owners of the glass-works next to the Clyde, who in turn sold it to the Merchants House of Glasgow, [2] and from there to Glasgow City Council who laid the foundation stone of St Enoch Church in 1780. [3] [4] It is one of six squares in the city ...