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Cherry Tree
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Picture source: Peter Ashworth |
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The Cherry Tree was situated at 2 Compstall Road,
Romiley. |
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This pub is due for demolition shortly. It had a long
history, being on the grounds of the old farm house for the Cherry Tree Farm
estate. The basement is reputed to be haunted, by the tenant Joseph Adshead
who found his daughter had hung herself from one of the beams. |
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Lee Battersby (April 2012) |
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My grandfather, Robert (not Joseph) Adshead farmed at Cherry
Tree until it was bought by compulsory purchase order just after the war and
before at least one of his sons, my father, Arthur, had returned from
Burma. Newspaper articles letters give local outrage at this decision. His
brother Alec, had been left to run the farm. Alec and his older brother
Haydn lived at 34 Heys Avenue for years afterwards. The youngest son,
another Robert, lived on Cherry Tree Close. Sister Ada, married Harry
Greenhalgh. Mary, the sister who hung herself, remains a mystery until I
can find the coroner's report or similar. She was never, ever mentioned by
any of the family (only my mother referred to it occasionally) but I am
quite sure her death had a devastating effect upon all of them. She was
found in a barn - not the cellar. |
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Frances Tivey (March 2013) |
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I knew this Pub well from my time as a
Brewer with the then owner in the late 1950’s into early 1960’s
I lived in Birkenhead at the time, but stayed on a bed and breakfast basis,
when I was doing shifts, which required a very early morning start
The Manager at that time was a Mr Hughes and his wife
The pub was built and owned by Yates’s Castle Brewery Fairfield Street
Ardwick Manchester
Yates’s were taken over by John Smith’s in circa 1963 The Brewery closed
shortly afterwards. I continued working for John Smith’s as the District
Manager Merseyside and other management posts within the expanded Company
Ending my career as a Regional Director after many more take overs. |
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Michael Poe (June 2021) |
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