The Glasgow Arms stood in what is now the Dover Street car park.
In November 1861, an advert declared:
‘A Capital and substantial erected dwelling house now used as a beer house called Glasgow Arms together with two two storey workshops and out buildings in the yard, in the occupation of George Armstrong.‘
Valentine Harris was victualler in the late 1860s. He held an auction here of his furniture and household goods before handing over to John Carnell in February 1870.
John Carnell found himself before the courts for serving on a Sunday. John told the court that the men were travellers and he could prove it. Unfortunately for Carnell, he was not aware that the law had just changed, prohibiting the sale to anyone on a Sunday morning. He was fined 10/6.
John Carnell was to run a successful carriage and cab business from the yard, although he let out part of the business. 1895, saw for sale ‘six high class brakes and cab horses, wagonettes, brougham, hansoms, traps and stable requisites’.
Carnell was still on the premises in 1896, but William Turner was listed as licensee in 1892 and in 1895 Albert Thompson took over the business. In 1896, a court case arose where a young groom was fined for striking Thompson. The boy, aged sixteen, had been drinking and took exception to the way he was spoken to by Thompson.
In 1904, the licensee, was William Johnson. There is no mention after 1907 although the cab making business continued.
