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Photo-a-Day  (Friday, 10th January, 2025)

The 'Snow' Globe, Standish


The 'Snow' Globe, Standish
The Globe Inn on a snowy morning is very much a Community Pub hosting many local societies.
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)
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Comment by: PeterP on 10th January 2025 at 07:13

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

Comment by: Big Harold. on 10th January 2025 at 08:23

Best Public house in Standish; Gavin, the landlord, is a Shevingtonian.
Shame about the derelict doctor's surgery across the road.

Comment by: WN6 on 10th January 2025 at 08:24

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.

Comment by: Julie on 10th January 2025 at 08:44

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.

Comment by: Colin Traynor on 10th January 2025 at 09:19

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.

Comment by: T. D. on 10th January 2025 at 13:08

Cure all for owd Victorian folk with ailments, the ancient fountain of.. corporation pop!

Comment by: PeterP on 10th January 2025 at 22:19

TD in Victorian times it was safer to drink corporation pop than drink the water supplied to most houses of that period

Comment by: Big Harold. on 11th January 2025 at 04:37

It was safer to drink beer or gin than water.

Comment by: Owd Reekie on 11th January 2025 at 07:27

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.

Comment by: T. D. on 11th January 2025 at 08:56

PeterP,. changing your lead pipes is strongly recommended.

Comment by: Veronica on 11th January 2025 at 10:43

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.

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