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Picture source: Ian Chapman
The Globe was situated at 58 Peckham Hill Street. This pub is now in residential use.
When I was at school, either at Oliver Goldsmiths in Southampton Way or Thomas Calton in Goodrich Road SE22, I had a friend named Mickey Oakley, who’s father either owned or managed the pub. I can’t remember his father, but I do remember being told that his father had been in the R.A.F and had been badly burned around the face, and had been a “guinea pig” in early treatment for severe burns. I seem to remember that there were a stables at the back of the pub, that you entered under an archway to the right of the property. We use to play in that area (horses long gone). I seem to remember, Mickey had a sister as well. I liked playing there, as he always had better toys than me. We used to play along the canal at the rear, but without our parents knowing, as it was so dangerous. Several boys drowned jumping on an off barges whilst they were moored, having misjudged the leap! My time at Oliver Goldsmiths would have been between 1954-1959.
David Good (October 2013)
In 1959 my family moved from Edmonton to Peckham, where our father, William Thomas David Graves (Bill) & mother Olive Patricia Graves (Pat) took over the tenancy of 'The Globe' 58 Peckham Hill Street SE15. At that time The Globe looked a little different to the photo above. The area in front of the pub was not fenced, but open and used as a small car park. There were some tables with umbrellas on the forecourt and an obsolete horse trough, which Mum filled with earth and planted with an array of flowers. To the right of the pub was a side entrance leading to a Ladies outside toilet and a gateway which led to the yard, where our family dog 'guarded the empties'. The pub itself had two bars...on the right was the Public Bar, very sparse and with a meeting room off to the right. In our day the meeting room held a loud juke box and a pinball machine....very popular with friends that my brother and I would bring home! The Lounge Bar or Saloon was to the left, entered by a separate door and was internally separated by a screened wall. It was a little more luxuriously furnished, part carpeted.........leather benches, stools, a piano and a fish tank! Behind the bar area was a collection of rooms, corridors and staircases. The upper front rooms, windows visible from the road, were our bedrooms plus a long spare room. At the back of the building were two large rooms and a kitchen, with a staircase between. Deep within the building were two more staircases, leading to two more large rooms. The interior was quite a maze! The building we were told was at one time three dwellings , which accounted for the unusual interior! I was 12 -13 years old when we moved into The Globe and remember the family before us was called Oakley. It was quite poignant. I was the same age as their daughter Patricia, I replaced her in the pub and went to the same school as she had attended. I was also placed in the same class that she used to be in ....so for a while I felt I had lost my identity!Very soon after we moved in, members of a gang, rumoured to be the Krays, approached Bill (our Dad) to force him to pay protection money. Bill refused (he couldn't afford it anyway) and so a time of fear and upset began for us all. Cars in the car park, including my Grandfather's prized Ford Popular, were vandalised. Customers were threatened and optics smashed during attacks. Police could do nothing, the gang was always long gone before they could get to us. One Sunday afternoon after closing (3pm) a black car moved in front of The Globe and a gun let rip across the front doors and windows. Dad may have been killed if he had been standing preparing his usual order. His habit was to calculate this leaning on the bar. We had, that day, persuaded him to eat with us for once....lucky eh !!??
Sheron Graves (November 2014)
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Name Dates Comments James Kiffin 1980s This was the first pub in Peckham I went to when I moved to peckham in 1987 I lived in a council flat opposite it had a good crowd every night mostly millwall supporters & a dj Saturday nights .when crowds declined wally the licensee tried karaoke but they never came back I smoked my last cigarette there in august 1989 & took my wife there once just before it closed to see a game of darts for the first time its gone but not my memories of it. Terry Meehan 1957-1974 I remember the Graves in the Globe Bill,Pat.Sharon, and I think her brother was Trevor. Sharon came to my engagement party my girlfriend was Rita this was 1960 we got married in 1964 and Pat Graves came to the wedding but I cannot remember If Sharon was there,and we are still married. I hope Sharon will contact me. Laurence Edmans 1963-1971 I lived around the corner in Bells Garden Road. I was a customer in late teens and early 20s. I proposed to my wife on the old bus seat which was the only upholstered seating in the public bar. Often spoke to a lorry driver who had been a boxer. He would usually end up saying,’I fought Rinty Monaghan’.Fights usually happened in the saloon bar, so we avoided them. I think the gang referred to in the description was the Richardsons,not the Krays.
Other Photos
Date of photo: 1966	Picture source: Mick Graves
Pat & Bill Graves, publicans. Date of photo: 1960s	Picture source: Mick Graves
	Picture source: Erum Waheed