Wheatsheaf Rooms - Paisley Road

[caie]

Hello

Another query I wonder if anyone can help with. Talking to some Aunts I am told that a family member was married in the Wheatsheaf Rooms in Paisley Road Glasgow in 1930. I have viewed the marriage certificate which confirms this - I can find no reference to that place. Has anyone ever heard of this place or able to point me in right direction.

Thanks

Caie

[M.R. Dien]

The 1931 Post Office Directory shows a listing for the Wheatsheaf Rooms at 263 Paisley Road.
The place appears to have been running for some time as the 1913/14 Valuation Rolls show an Annie Martin Restauranteur at that address and searching Google shows several marriages in various years.

[AMBLY]

Hi

Lots of references to marriages in the " Wheatsheaf Rooms, 263 Paisley Road" - the earliest I googled up was 1907 and into the 1940's.   

http://audio32.archive.org/stream/historyofunitedc00reiduoft/historyofunitedc00reiduoft_djvu.txt
The premises was originally the "Paisley Rooms", tearooms as part of the large "United Baking Society". From this link you can elect to open up the book as a pdf (a much nicer read!)

"The address of Mr M'Culloch was published in full in the local Wheatsheaf of the Lisburn Society"

"...The next venture of the Federation was in Paisley Road, where, on 25th May 1895, tearooms were opened. Following on the opening of the Paisley Road  premises, no alterations took place in this section of the Society's business until the end of 1897, when the comnmittee….."

"…...Toward the end of 1903 the Paisley Road tearooms were  destroyed by fire, and in restoring them the committee decided  to add another storey. The landlord agreed to bear a proportion of the cost, and on the reconstruction being completed they were named the " Wheatsheaf " tearooms. "

There is also a lengthy discussion on the viability and success of the tearooms, and then I think it says (after the main bakery business was moved to the huge St Mungos premises (a picture is in the pdf), the ailing Wheatsheaf Tearooms were bought from the United Bakery Co-op by a manageress there

This would be after 1903, and probably before 1907 as I'd guess this manager was a person, who in entrepreneurial spirit then hired out part fo the premises as a  "wedding/cum reception package"

Cheers
AMBLY

[AMBLY]

I trying to establish the loacation - just going by modern maps...

263 Paisley Road would have been near what is now the "Paisley Toll"  and  a couple of blocks in from the Springfield Quay.  Harry's Ramsden's Fish Restaurant is at 251 Paisley Rd. Across the way, is the tiny "The Quay's Garden" Chinese restaurant building at 256 Paisley Rd. Although our modern number logic says it should be on the same side of the road as the Fish Restaurant, all indications (googleMap) are that 263 was probably located  in the area now known "The Quay" Shopping/Casino/Restaurant.Bowling/MeccaBingo complex?

Unless it was at what is now known as Paisley Road West - and in this case 263 is directly opposite the cnr of Harvie St/Paisley Road West -  in the housing block with McCanns Dentist on the corner at 253. Google map and street view the address.

Cheers
AMBLY

[caie]

AMBLY - thankyou so much for this. I had tried searching but couldn't find anything.

Much appreciated

Caie

[gaucho]

Using the info on here http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glasgow/1927address993.jpg
it looks as though this might be under or just on the Govan side of the Kingston Bridge
John

[DDonSco]

My gradparents were married at 263 Paisley Road West on 4th December 1896 "according to the forms of the Free Church of Scotland. The minister was Robert Howie MA of St Mary's Free Church, Govan. Several of my Free Church ancestors were married at addresses at which there was no Church.

[RJ_Paton]

My gradparents were married at 263 Paisley Road West on 4th December 1896 "according to the forms of the Free Church of Scotland. The minister was Robert Howie MA of St Mary's Free Church, Govan. Several of my Free Church ancestors were married at addresses at which there was no Church.

It was quite normal for marriages in the Presbyterian churches not to be held in Church buildings. The most common places were the brides own home or the ministers manse although halls/restaurants could also be used.