PUB IN QUAY STREET SALTCOATS
PUB IN QUAY STREET SALTCOATS
Does anyone recall the name of the pub in Quay Street opposite what is now the carpet shop? Thank you
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Saracens head maybe?
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burns tavern,nick named the Dardanelles
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thank you both.
It was the Burns Tavern
It was the Burns Tavern
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Sam do we know why it was called the Dardanelles?
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I think it was called the Dardanelles because a lot of the men that drank in the pub got sent to the Dardanelles in the first war.
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Cheers wellparkno9 that's interesting, it's got me thinking now there is/was a pub in Kilmarnock called the kadikoi(the thin red line). Wonder why a bar in Ayrshire is named after a battle in the Crimean war?
Those wimin were in the nip.
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Bonzo, There's a building in Garvan Road in Stevenston locally referred to as the Redan Building - unsure if it's officially named Redan. I believe that too was named after a battle during the Crimean War.
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It seems to have been a common practice in the 19th century. There was a coal pit in Stevenston called Redan Pit. It was just off Garven Road and most likely the reason for the name Redan House.
http://www.ayrshireroots.co.uk/Towns/St ... lfield.htm
From the Ordnance Survey 1856-1857:
"Redan Pit
A new coal pit named, in Commemoration of the Storming of the Redan Sebastapool belonging to Messrs Merry & Cunninghame"
http://www.ayrshireroots.co.uk/Towns/St ... lfield.htm
From the Ordnance Survey 1856-1857:
"Redan Pit
A new coal pit named, in Commemoration of the Storming of the Redan Sebastapool belonging to Messrs Merry & Cunninghame"
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Now you mention it I remember the Redan building but as usual my mind is thinking of pubs
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Those wimin were in the nip.
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my wife who is from the bottom end reckons there was more than one Redan buiding. As well as the Garven Road one she says the building in Lundholm Road was also known as the Redan building as was one in Ardoch Crescent. Is she correct.