In April 1905, Mrs McCallum, who ran the Larkfield Bar (where the former Doonin/Olive Music Lounge now is) was ordered by a court to close her back door. What was the reason for this? Well it was the licensing courts who asked her to close the back door of the premises, owing to the amount […]
The Larkfield Bar was a public house which once stood on the exact spot of the current front car park of the Doon Inn. In 1875, Mr Alexander Young, a spirit dealer in Blantyre formed a partnership with James Walker, and together they feued a piece of land at Larkfield, which we now know was at […]