232 Manchester Road Heaton Chapel Stockport SK4 1NN
So once there was a pleasure gardens, and then in 1901 a pub.
Wilson’s Brewery built The Ash Hotel, a grand boozer in a Jacobean manor manner, complete with bowling green and billiard room.
It lasted through to the 70’s and 90’s but gradually it became harder and harder to manage and fill a pub of such size and stature.
Closed – standing unloved and unused until it was finally converted into the Ash Tea Rooms in 2011.
Only to be closed again in May 2018.
Once ringing with the chink of glass on glass, songs and laughter it awaits its latest fate – conversion to flats.
One can only hope that much of its architectural detail will be preserved – particularly the architectural type fascia sign.
And the mosaic flooring.
Only time will tell – if you’re passing tip your hat take a look and celebrate a grand old building which somehow will prevail.
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My Dad’s cousin ran the Ash sometime up until 1951 their name was Hewitt.
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