PILOT, 21 GORDON STREET

Gordon Street 2-34, row of houses from left to right, so that would make the Shipstones sign the offie that was once the Pilot (photo DC).

Built in 1871.  Stood on the South West Side of Gordon Street and North West Porter Street.

Corner of Porter and Gordon Street.

Samuel Wilkinson filed for liquidation in November 1880 when landlord of the Pilot beerhouse at no. 21 Gordon Street.

John Brown was still running the Pilot in 1920, but the directory classed him as a beer retailer.

When it ceased as a beerhouse, it continued as a shop.  Compulsory purchased in 1964. 

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