For 300 years, this pub operated as a major city bank.
One of Glasgow’s busiest pubs once housed the riches of the city’s wealthiest merchants and businessmen.
The Counting House on George Square is known as a Wetherspoons pub – but for 300 years, the building operated as a Bank ofWhile it has been adapted to serve the people of Glasgow with cheap pints and gammon and chips, it has retained most of its original features including safes, statues, bank vaults and its beautiful glass dome.by JT Ruchhead between 1867 and 1870 and was the only bank ever to have been established by an Act of Parliament of Scotland.
Enjoy a visual tour of historic Glasgow through the many framed photos depicting the city in the early 20th century, such as the Trongate, Renfield Street and George Square.You’ll recognise some of the most notable public figures associated with Glasgow like Adam Smith, Lord Kelvin and tea merchant Thomas Lipton, as their portraits also don the pub’s walls.
Among the many photographs on the wall are sketches, drawings, and poems. Learn the theories about the real meaning behind the famous Tudor rhyme, Sing a Song of Sixpence, which contains the line"the king was in his counting house; counting out his money." Some believe the ‘maid’ who had her nose picked off by a blackbird was a cruel reference to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife.A poem by Sir Robert Burns, written on the back of a Scottish guinea note, tells of his financial woes and how he considered emigrating to Jamaica before he achieved success with the publication of Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect in 1786.
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