Glasgow Press Bar for sale

Press Bar, a city centre pub in Glasgow, is to be put up for sale after 85 years under the ownership of the same family.

The establishment is located in Albion Street and has been a favourite haunt of journalists, office workers and university staff for decades.

The Glasgow Evening Times reported that the business is for sale because the next generation of McEntree family, who have owned the pub since 1928, have no interest in running the pub.

Tom McEntree bought the Press Bar back in 1928 and since then it has been handed down through two generations of the family to its current owner Vincent, who started working in the bar when he was 17 and took ownership of it 14 years ago.

Vincent's children, however, have no interest in running the pub and consequently the Press Bar is for sale.

Mr McEntree told the paper: "I have had a great clientele over the years and I have enjoyed mixing with different people every day of the week. But I started working in the pub 35 years ago which is why I feel like getting out.

"I will be sad to sell the Press Bar but my family have their own careers. I knew I was going to be the last person from my family to own the pub and that it was going to be down to me to let go. It was a hard decision but we can only now wait and see what happens in the future."