nside the Anchor Line: From gateway to the world to dining in grandeur
For 130 years, the Anchor Line was the gateway to the world for many Glaswegians. However by 1980, the company had hit troubled waters and was liquidated.
“Unfortunately, when transport changed and airlines came in it rapidly declined and went into liquidation,” Tony Conetta, director of the DiMaggio’s Restaurant Group, explains. “It hibernated for a very long period of time.”
“Unfortunately, when transport changed and airlines came in it rapidly declined and went into liquidation,” Tony Conetta, director of the DiMaggio’s Restaurant Group, explains. “It hibernated for a very long period of time.”
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00:00It's now that we talk about immigration all the time, but back then it was immigration,
00:07people leaving.
00:08So people would leave on these ships, and they would go to, so if you were a good worker
00:14you could go to Canada for two pounds, and all the working men and women and families
00:21would go, and there's an amazing piece of footage where you can see the ship leaving
00:26Glasgow, and everyone's on the ship all very happy, all going to a new life, smiling, waving
00:32at the family and all that stuff.
00:34And then the ship leaves, and you see the mum and dad put the umbrella down and walk
00:40back to their old house without the family anymore, because they don't know the next
00:46time they're going to hear from the family.
00:48So it was an amazing, it was an incredible time.
00:52This is the original first booking office, you can see you would sit in the seats and
00:57have the picture of the ship behind you, but look at that, it's all still the same.
01:03Same lobby, same windows, same cornice, the same floor.
01:08So it's really just a continuation of the theme, you know, of making it a really nice
01:13place for people in Glasgow to come and join themselves.