Inn on the Green, 25 Greenhead Street, Glasgow Green
The original building dates back to the 1850's when it was used as basic accommodation for Seamen.
Then in 1859 brothers Robert and James Dick bought McPhail's Mill in 1859 and renovated and renamed it the Greenhead Works.  In order that the factory would not look out of place in a residential area alongside the green, the blocks facing onto Greenhead street were designed to look like domestic tenements.
The building and surrounding streets ( Arcadia St./ McPhail St ) were owned by the factory R & G Dick Ltd a massive employer at the time, making transmission belts and pulleys.
    Robert dick came up with the idea of creating belts for driving machinery from balata, a similar gum to gutta percha but grown in South America. When mixed with fibre these belts proved cheaper and more efficient than the traditional leather belts. The world famous 'Dickbelt' made the brothers very wealthy. 
  Unfortunatley the success of the Dickbelt severlely damaged the lucrative leather industry for several Bridgeton firms.
          With the demise of engineering, the factory closed and the building was taken over by McPhail Street Properties Ltd in 1964 and the building was converted into self contained workshops. 
          Downstairs the Inn on the green restaurant opened twenty years later in 1984. The workshops above the restaurant closed in 1998 paving the way for the present day 3 storey building hotel which opened in March 1999.