The Globe Tavern - A Former Pub in Preston with Links to a Brewery in Ince

The Globe Tavern

Probably one of my favourite buildings in town (how I refer to the now city of Preston).

It is currently the Hang Seng Oriental Supermarket at 120 Corporation Street, Preston PR1 2HE

The former Globe Tavern in Preston

The post started off as a question about the origins of the building, because I wasn't having much luck with the search engine results.

However, I was able to join the dots using the Preston Digital Archive and Steve Halliwell's PRESTON'S INNS, TAVERNS and BEERHOUSES website/blog.

The building was built in 1892, on the junction of Corporation Street and Heatley Street. Initially, I was struggling with what is perhaps a logo incorporating I S & L ( ...I thought that it could be another combination of those letters... 🤔 )

The former Globe Tavern in Preston - Logo incorporating I S & L

I understand that it was Tom's Tavern around 1983. It was also known as 'Method' in the period around 2012. It has also formerly been 'The Globe Inn', 'Nonno's' and 'Mercury Flux'. All ascertained from the Preston Digital Archive.

The former Globe Tavern in Preston. Built in 1892.

Information from Steve Halliwell's 'PRESTON'S INNS, TAVERNS and BEERHOUSES' website/blog would suggest that it started life as The Globe Tavern. Steve comments as follows:

1891 - 93

'MINE HOST' is Isaac Wilson Lawrence - Isaac Lawrence was a brewer at Ince Brewery, Wigan.

The house was re-built in 1892, presumably by this brewery?

The I S & L turned out to be I L & S for Isaac Lawrence & Sons.

Isaac Lawrence & Sons

Interestingly, there is a building of similar design on the edge of the site of the former Isaac Lawrence & Sons, Higher Ince Brewery that dates from 1881.

The former BELLE GREEN. Isaac Lawrence & Sons Brewery, Ince

Isaac Lawrence & Sons History

Isaac Lawrence & Sons, Higher Ince Brewery, 165 Manchester Road, Belle Green Lane, Ince

Offered for auction 30th January 1914 with two public houses, but no bids received and the company was wound up.

Isaac W Lawrence died in February 1916, his sons were wounded or lost in the First World War.

The Brewery plant was for sale in February 1917.

Isaac Lawrence may also have been involved with the Crown Brewery, Leigh to circa 1895.

The Brewery became a dairy and was then demolished circa 1978.

Isaac Lawrence & Son, Crown Brewery, Leigh Road, Leigh

Acquired by the Bedford Brewing & Malting Co. Ltd. in 1888.

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Further reading and sources of information

GLOBE TAVERN, Heatley Street
PRESTON'S INNS, TAVERNS and BEERHOUSES

https://pubsinpreston.blogspot.com/2012/02/globe-tavern-heatley-street.html

Tom's Tavern. Corporation Street, Preston 1983
Preston Digital Archive

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpsmithbarney/6692248211/

Isaac Lawrence & Sons, Higher Ince Brewery
165 Manchester Road, Belle Green Lane, Ince

http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Lawrence_%26_Sons

Belle Green Lane, Ince-in-Makerfield, Wigan

https://maps.app.goo.gl/M4hgP2d9R3Qhxz5aA

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The Former Globe Tavern in Preston

The former Globe Tavern in Preston. Built in 1892.

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