Maisie at Bell s Bar in 1960 IT IS not the most pleasant name for a pub – the Coffin Bar – but for many east end drinkers in the 40s and 50s, this Whitevale Street venue (also called the New Coffin) was a favourite haunt. Times Past reader Jim Brown has got in touch, however, to ask if anyone remembers the Dennistoun pub was also a dance hall? “My parents reminisced about dancing at The Coffin on Whitevale Street in Dennistoun in the 40s,” he says. “I have also heard other relatives mention this as a popular dance hall and judging by the time frame The Coffin must have been a dance venue as far back as the early 1930s.”