Cranston Tea Rooms Glasgow

The team at the willow tea rooms view our menus at buchanan street inspired by the works of charles rennie mackintosh the tea rooms are modelled on kate cranston s ingram street tea rooms from the early 1900s.

Cranston tea rooms glasgow.

The willow tea rooms trust was established in 2014 as a charity with the aim of acquiring miss cranston s tea rooms at 217 sauchiehall street glasgow the building is now in ownership of the trust. Charles rennie mackintosh had been born in glasgow in 1868 and when kate cranston first commissioned him to design the wall murals of her buchanan tearooms he was only 28. The street and surrounding area are part of the new town of blythswood created largely by william harley of blythswood square in the early 1800s. The willow tearooms opened at 217 sauchiehall in october 1903.

1 kate cranston one of scotland s earliest female entrepreneurs was born in glasgow in 1849. The location selected by miss cranston for the new tearooms was a four storey former warehouse building on a narrow infill urban site on the south side of sauchiehall street. Now that the trust have succeeded in restoring the building to its former glory it continues to focus its effort on the advancement of the arts heritage and culture by. Mackintosh at the willow operates as a not for profit social enterprise creating training learning employment and other opportunities and support for young people and communities.

Her older brother stuart became a tea dealer when glasgow s temperance movement was in full swing and tea previously a luxury was being seen as a desirable alternative to alcohol for the working classes. Our tea rooms are open daily monday to saturday 9am to 5pm and sundays 10am 5pm. In 1950 glasgow corporation acquired the ingram street building and the tea rooms were used for storage. The name sauchiehall is derived from saugh the scots word for a willow.

Before the building was demolished in 1971 the rooms were thoroughly documented and catalogued. With a selection of loose teas and freshly ground coffees freshly made cakes scones soups and sandwiches there s plenty to choose from all enjoyed in the stunning historic surroundings designed by charles rennie mackintosh for miss kate cranston. Catherine cranston 27 may 1849 18 april 1934 widely known as kate cranston or miss cranston was a leading figure in the development of tea rooms she is nowadays chiefly remembered as a major patron of charles rennie mackintosh and margaret macdonald in glasgow scotland the name of miss cranston s tea rooms lives on in reminiscences of glasgow in its heyday. Catherine cranston changed how people socialised with her popular tearooms image.

Wikipedia an astute businesswoman with a soft heart. Born on 27 may 1849 kate s father was a baker and pastry.