When I decided to walk the Great Wall the biggest problem I had was how to raise the £2500 sponsorship money . I came up with the idea of a sponsored pub crawl.

History Of Glasgow's Famous Gallon Club

At 2:00 pm on Saturday 25th of November 2000, the Glasgow's Famous Gallon Club (F.G.G.C) was formed .

The idea behind the G.F.G.C, was to raise much needed funds for Scottish childrens charity Aberlour Childcare Trust by holding a sponsored pub crawl along Sauchiehall Street, having a pint in eight different pubs. 8 pints = 1 Gallon

F.G.G.C paid a fiver to join in which went straight to the Aberlour Child Care Trust, collections were also held in the bars at the managements discretion. In an attempt to raise as much money as possible, Following the success of the Glasgow Famous Gallon Club's (GFGC) first charity pub

crawl along Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street which raised£615 for the Aberlour Child Care Trust,

a second GFGC charity pub crawl was held on Saturday 24th March 2001.
Subway crawl

The intention was that we'd start our day off at Fat Boabs @ St Enoch Square and heading north and then west towards the Hayburn Bar @ Partick, however like all best laid plans we had to rethink our route when the Inner Circle on the Underground was closed due to a fault in the tunnel between Kelvinbridge and Hillhead Stations. So with that in mind we took the Outer Circle to Kelvinhall Station at the Three Judges Public House (missing out Partick & the Hayburn Bar altogether).

We were again accompanied by our director of music - Tam the Piper - and also some of Strathclyde Police's finest officers to keep us on the straight and narrow (more about them later).

We then moved to the Aragon Bar on Byres Road and watched some of the Scotland Vs Belguim and showed the students there how to drink!!! From there the day descended into chaos when the group got split up amongst Curlers, and various drinking establishments in Ashton Lane before all finally meeting up at Bar Oz @ Kelvinbridge for some tinnies

From Bar Oz we made our way to the Captains Rest @ Georges Cross where Tam entertained us by singing us some old Scottish and Glasweigian Songs, and then onto Trader Joes @ Cowcaddens by this time we were about 2 hours behind schedule it was decided that we'd finish the day there and with most people having more than one drink in the other pubs we had completed the task of having 8 pints.

Since then the GFGC have travelled futher a field and have visited some magic places .

THE LIST BELOW IS THE OFFICAL EVENTS OF GLASGOW'S FAMOUS GALLON CLUB

1. SAUCHIEHALL STREET PUB CRAWL
2. SUBWAY CRAWL
3. HENRY WOOD HALL DISCO
4. BEN NEVIS WEEKEND
5. GREAT SCOTTISH WALK EDINBUGH
6. DUBLIN
7. AMSTERDAM
8. BARCELONA
9. LONDON
10. BELFAST
11. PRAGUE
12. BEN LOMOND
13. BERLIN
14. RIGA
15. FRANKFURT
16. MILLPORT
17. KRAKOW
18. BLACKPOOL

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