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The Globe, Liverpool
Liverpool
L1 1HW
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Strongers . left this review about The Globe
The Globe was closed when I tried to visit early on a Monday evening in February, but I was happy to find it open at around the same time on bank holiday Monday just gone. This is certainly a small pub with banquettes on carpet across the front window and up the left-hand wall to around the rear. A partition screen, with a stained glass insert, is found three quarters of the way up the left hand banquettes creating front and rear seating. The serving counter on the right-hand wall has a tile floored surround and there’s more stained glass around the top of the bar. Standard keg was available alongside Madri and Cruzcampo and four of the five hand pumps were in use drawing Brain’s Rev James, TT Landlord and Boltmaker and Wainwright. The Rev James, served by the friendly landlady, was on good form.
In the rear, on the way to the gents, is a small wooden floored seating area with some tables and a short banquette up the left. A map of Liverpool patterned wallpaper covers the right-hand wall and there’s a small coal fire that was primed for lighting on the rear wall. This is a proper old boozer with an older clientele from at least the 1960s where the background music was from. Worth a look.
On 13th May 2025
- rating: 7
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Ian Mapp left this review about The Globe
My tweet about "never judging a book by its cover" was retweeted by Roger Protz who commented that Liverpool CAMRA first met there 50 years ago next year.
I went viral :-)
What a gem - externally, it looks like you should be walking on by, but inside, its a proper pub that you instantly feel at home in. Small front room around a horseshoe bar. A 2nd, almost secluded back room. Full of puppy trinkets and art work.
TT Boltmaker in fine condition - the pumps for this and landlord emblazoned with the brewery "champion cellar" accreditation.
GBG2023.
On 10th July 2023
- rating: 8
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Globe
Handily located for Liverpool Central station and all of the main shopping streets, this is a small and narrow locals' boozer tucked away off the main drag, but easily found if you're heading to Clayton Square shopping centre.
It's probably been almost 10 years since I was last in here. The ale range is not too inspiring these days and it has dropped out of the Good Beer Guide, despite being the birthplace of Merseyside's CAMRA organisation. Sharp's Doom Bar, Timothy Taylor Landlord & Thwaites Wainwright are the ales. The guest beer yesterday was Coach House Cheshire Oak.
There is a small room and some equally small toilets at the rear, with a deceptive, sloping floor in between. The pub attracts all walks of life, including locals and stag parties (one had just arrived as we were getting ready to depart).
On 16th May 2022
- rating: 5
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Brainy Pool left this review about The Globe
situated by the ghastly Cooper Square shopping centre, yet another of those classic convivial Scouse boozers. this one is particularly tiny and populated by jolly pensioners. beer not bad but it's all about the atmosphere in here.
On 16th August 2018
- rating: 8
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Globe
A small and very traditional old city pub, tucked between a shopping centre and a row of circuit pubs. The main room at the front slopes through to a cosy snug at the back. A couple of local ales were on offer alongside the more usual national brews and in good condition (Cask Marque listing). Well worth a visit.
On 12th April 2018
- rating: 8
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Steve of N21 left this review about The Globe
Just outside the entrance to Clayton Square shopping centre we popped in here for a bit of post retail therapy and mainly for the interior, which is well described by previous reviewers. Four beers were on for our visit and yes they were fairly pedestrian choices including Doombar, TT Landlord, and Thwaites Wainwright, but the Landlord was an excellent pint and we managed to bag a seat in the small back room by the wall length world globe mural.
On 30th August 2017
- rating: 8
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Globe
Improbably located next to a large modern shopping centre, the Globe is a lively old fashioned boozer in a prime location opposite Central station. The pub has a small two room layout, with a nice porch leading you into the main bar area with the servery along the right hand wall. The porch has some nice etched glass panes bearing the pub's name and the word 'Bar', with stained glasswork above and a diving helmet an telescope on the top. The room is part carpet, part tile floor and it takes a little while to figure out that the slightly odd perspective in the room is the result of quite a notable up slope towards the back of the room ('The pub with the famous sloping floor' says the sign outside). The bar has a grand dark wood counter, stained glass canopy and what appears to be a relatively new bar back. Smart button backed banquette seating fills the front window bay underneath more fine etched and stained glass, with similar seating along the left hand side of the room, broken midway by a small partitioning screen. A nice frieze runs around the top of the walls which have been decorated with a smart wooden frame with glazed tile top, retro mirrors, a ship's wheel, model ships, old tobacco tins and other such odds and ends. To the rear, pleasant wallpaper covers a wall adorned with old photos, newspaper clippings, various certificates and a shelving unit full of ceramic barrels. A TV in one corner was showing a muted daytime programme, perhaps for the benefit of the bar staff. Beyond the bar a short passage leads into a smaller rear room which is bare boarded and has space for just three tables served by a compact U-shaped banquette and several low stools. There's a tiled fireplace in the rear corner, low wood panelling and wallpaper showing an old map of the world. Mirrors, jugs and more model ships are displayed above the banquettes, an old typewriter and radio can be seen to the rear whilst to the right there is a plaque commemorating the formation of the local CAMRA branch in this very room. Music of a certain vintage played quietly in the background, more apparent in the back room and the customers, of whom there were plenty at lunchtime, were a friendly bunch, with one chap offering me a seat at his table and engaging in a good chat about Liverpool's best traditional pubs.
A couple of cheery old ladies were running the bar as I assume they have been doing for a great many years, and they were offering four cask ales - Sharps Doom Bar, Taylor Landlord, Thwaites Wainwright and Lancaster English Pale Ale (£3.40). I tried a pint of the latter and it was in fine form - certainly on a par, if not better than beer sampled in some of the city's Good Beer Guide listed pubs.
I'm not really sure how I've never visited this pub before, as it is clearly one of the stand out boozers in the city in terms of its fine traditional interior, warm welcoming atmosphere and well kept beer. I'm glad I finally got round to paying a visit and can imagine missing a train or two to soak up the atmosphere in here again in the future.
On 10th March 2017
- rating: 8
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custodian 42 left this review about The Globe
Good old type of pub let down a bit by the low ABV on the ales. Might be better on another visit.
On 14th October 2016
- rating: 6
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Globe
Fine, traditional pub with a compact bar and rear room accessed via a slight but wonky slope. Short of space, so found a perch with a few older locals who indulged in some good-natured banter (partially at my expense, of course) of just the sort that you would expect in a proper Liverpool pub. Three of four handpumps in operation, with a disappointing selection of Doom Bar, Wainwright and Black Sheep Holy Grail (expensive for the area at £3.40 too). However, I did really enjoy my brief stop here.
On 9th April 2016
- rating: 8
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Al Bundy left this review about The Globe
A great old pub. Descriptions elsewhere. Real ales available. Both the front bar and back room can be busy.
On 28th July 2015
- rating: 8
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