I come to you all with a very unusual request and am hoping for some expert help.
I'm working on a close friends family tree at the moment. He was for a time the proprietor of the Butterburn Bar on Gateside Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
The pub lays claim to being one of the oldest in Hamilton and certainly its been there since I was a very small child.
But something doesn't make sense. The buildings around the pub are odd. Indeed the pub itself juts out from under an old tenement. There's evidence that the building to the right of the pub was demolished and then much later another building replaced it which would first be an Iceland Food Store and then later Dimaggios Restaurant.
The Butterburn itself doesnt appear on any Valuation Roles. There is no mention of 44 Gateside street and yet 42 and 46 are listed
Does anyone have any clue as to how I can research this pub - I'm guessing the name Butterburn must be a fairly modern thing and it was previously called something else
Any help would be appreciated
As a starting point the Butterburn is at 44 Gateside Street, Hamilton - Believed to have been established in the 1800's - It looks to me like the lounge part was added at a later date (after the demolition of the building next door)
