{"id":202785,"date":"2025-06-21T14:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T14:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202785\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T14:57:18","slug":"old-school-pub-with-no-telly-no-pool-just-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202785\/","title":{"rendered":"Old school pub with ‘no telly, no pool, just ale’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manager Jenny Gribbin was 22 when she started working at the then newly opened bar – she’s still there 29 years later\"StampsStamps Bar in Crosby Village(Image: Trinity Mirror NW2 )<\/p>\n

On Coronation Road in Crosby, Stamps Bar has been doing its thing since 1996 – no gimmicks, no flat-screens, no pool table. Just proper pints, a loyal crowd, and the kind of atmosphere you can\u2019t fake.<\/p>\n

At the centre of it all is Jenny Gribbin, who\u2019s been behind the bar since day one. She told the ECHO<\/a>: “I\u2019m the manager. I\u2019ve been here 29 years this year. The owners have had it for 29 years as well.<\/p>\n

“I was 22 and was working at The Liver in Waterloo<\/a> and someone told me about this place opening, so I came along and I\u2019ve been here ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long for Jenny to realise that Stamps was going to be something special. She continued: \u201cWhen we started putting the bands on. We used to have a jam on a Saturday evening and it got really busy. It was a great atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the focus on live music has scaled back in recent years – partly due to changing habits post-covid – Stamps still keeps things interesting with regular events and its friendly vibe.<\/p>\n

Jenny explained: \u201cWe do a ‘slam jam’ once a month. We do karaoke every Friday and a quiz night twice a month. We concentrate more on our real ales, which keeps people coming. People in the area really like it.”<\/p>\n

And the drink selection is a big part of the appeal. With a strong focus on cask and craft beers, and support from their own brewery – Republic of Liverpool Beer Company – there’s always something new on tap, alongside the staples.<\/p>\n

Jenny said: \u201cWe have a lot of cask ales. We do six cask ales and then craft ales too, which are becoming a lot more popular now. And, of course, we have lager, cider, a lot of different bottles and a lot of different spirits.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an old school pub. It\u2019s got that vibe – cask ales and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just the drinks that keep regulars coming back. It\u2019s the warmth of the place – the kind that\u2019s hard to find in chain bars or modern gastropubs. Jenny adds: \u201cIt\u2019s nice to work for an independent company as well. They get to know you and it\u2019s more personal. You\u2019re just a name and number for a bigger business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of regulars in the daytime and evening. They\u2019re all really nice people – all different ages as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

And those people span the generations. Jenny said: \u201cIn the daytime, we get an older clientele but we get the age of 18 all the way up to 90.\u201d<\/p>\n

What makes Stamps truly stand out is what it doesn\u2019t have: no TV screens, no sport, and no distractions from the good old art of conversation.<\/p>\n

Jenny says: \u201cThat\u2019s a part of our thing. We\u2019ve never had tellies, we don\u2019t do sport or football or anything like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that culture is making a return. People like to just have background music on, sit, chill and have a chat. We stopped doing as much live music because it was getting a little quieter and we found that\u2019s what people want to do now: talk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps that\u2019s the secret to Stamps’ longevity: an authentic, community-driven pub. Jenny said: \u201cWe\u2019ve had good staff and a good base of regulars who\u2019ve all drank in here for years and years.\u201d<\/p>\n

After 29 years behind the bar, Jenny still speaks about Stamps with a quiet pride – not just as a job, but as a part of her life: \u201cIt\u2019s been my job for 29 years and it means a lot to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manager Jenny Gribbin was 22 when she started working at the then newly opened bar – she’s still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,5765,393,4884,179,15650,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-202785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crosby","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-liverpool-pubs","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}