Photo-a-Day (Friday, 10th January, 2025)
The 'Snow' Globe, Standish
The Drinking Fountain to the right of the War Memorial was constructed to commemorate Queen Victoria's Dimond Jubilee in 1897 and features a lions mask to the front feeding into bow fronted trough. On the top is a cast iron lamp standard.
Photo: Colin Traynor (iPhone)
It looks like a very welcoming pub and apart from the traffic noise and fumes during the summer a bet a lot of customers sit outside on the bench/tables
Best Public house in Standish; Gavin, the landlord, is a Shevingtonian.
Shame about the derelict doctor's surgery across the road.
It’s -5 at the moment, don’t know about the cast iron lamp posts but I think I see a brass monkey in that there tree.
Lovely it just looks like one of those postcards what you used to buy many years ago in wigan what they sold around the different places when visiting wigan.
FYI:
It was 1871 before the Globe Tavern was officially named on census records but prior to that it was the home of Roger Pendlebury and his family from the 1830's. Roger was originally a grocer but went on to work as a clogger and as the beer house keeper at the Globe.
Cure all for owd Victorian folk with ailments, the ancient fountain of.. corporation pop!
TD in Victorian times it was safer to drink corporation pop than drink the water supplied to most houses of that period
It was safer to drink beer or gin than water.
PeterP. I'm intrigued by your comment. I would have thought that both waters would have come from the same source. Just going through different pipes.
PeterP,. changing your lead pipes is strongly recommended.
A lot of people today swear by bottled water from the supermarket…the fact is the water could be in those plastic bottles for months or years for that matter…..
The only time I would buy a bottle of water is if I am travelling a fair distance by coach.