BAKER STREET

The Globe

43-47 Marylebone Road, Marylebone, London NW1 5JY
Tel: 020 7935 6368
Nearest tube station: Baker Street: Bakerloo, Jubilee, Metropolitan, Circle & Hammersmith & City lines.

Built in 1735, the first ever omnibus service from Holborn Road stopped here. Later, the world’s first underground, the Metropolitan Line was constructed a few feet from the tavern.
Many famous characters have been patrons including Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle and William Pitt the Younger who was prescribed alcohol for pleurisy as a baby and by the age of 12 was an alcoholic. He continued drinking steadily and was made Prime Minister by the age of 24.

In 1836 the publican, William Thornton, being ill in bed sent his barmaid to the cellar for liquor. She returned to find him dead with his throat cut, at least that was her story! Suicide was accepted by the coroner but perhaps not by William whose ghost still walks here from time to time.

Today it remains much as it did in the 18th century, serving traditional English food and ale.

source: http://www.thisislondontown.com/baker-street-pubs.html

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