Captured here all bricked up and awaiting its fate is The Globe public house, 107 Tollington Rd, N7 7JH.
A fairly substantial three story building with a gently curved façade, there’s not a lot of information about the pub online.
So far, I’ve only discovered that in 1874 the landlord was James Chessher and in 1944 a Wm Thos Hurrey was manning the pumps – if you know more about the pub or used to drink there, please add your comments to this article.
The pub was to last less than a year after this photo was taken in early 2006, with demolition swiftly being followed by the inevitable construction of ‘luxury lifestyle apartments’.
A thread on the urban75 boards asked posters for their memories of The Globe, and the responses seem to suggest that it was something of a “dodgy pub.”
TitanSound: “had a drink in there once a good few years back and was threatened with a glassing within half an hour. Nice place!”
Blossie33: “It was squatted for a while before being demolished – I went to a couple of parties there, maybe five or six years ago (the smell from the toilet area was the worst I’ve ever experienced from any squat, I think things had permeated the carpets!)”
Here’s a screengrab from Google Street View showing the new upmarket development, called Globe Court [planning documents here].
Discuss the Globe pub on our busy bulletin boards
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I was born just around the corner in Hornsey Road in 1947. I then lived right next door to the globe Hotel public house. I lived there until I was 18 it had a part at the side with an enough license to it when you could take bottles empty bottles back and get some money back on and ask kids used to do that so we could get spending money there was never any trouble there obviously because in those days. It was a very nice area and it was a lot of family around there. It was a nice place to live in Islington then.
I used to get in there with my then Brother in Laws Michael, Barry and Brian when living in Talbot House Harvist Estate just before we’d pop off to the Arsenal.