I can hear the goon train approaching as I type this. If I'm honest I was very surprised that we didn't run into anyone else there considering for the last week and a half or so it's been all over the usual Facebook groups, they don't seem to have woken up quite yet.
It's hard to get a definite date the place closed, but it became The Crying Tree around 2011, and this appears to have only lasted a few years before the building was once again sold in 2015. In 2017 a planning application was approved for conversion into numerous apartments, but so far nothing has happened.
Pubs are almost universally shit. So much so that in my 13 years of exploring I have done precisely one other pub - the Gipsies Tent Inn - which, as any old timers know, was filled with interesting old tat to look at. I, along with most people, tend to steer well clear of them because they are arguably the lowest of the low hanging fruit, frequented usually by social media explorers waving torches around at night proclaiming it to be spooky and haunted. However there have been, over the years, a few standout old pubs - as in, true old pubs in old interesting buildings - that have emerged and broken the usual mould. Case in point is this one, at it's core it's a distinctly average pub which normally I wouldn't give any thought to, but it's located inside a way above average building and made for a fun way to spend an hour and a half or so.
Away from the main entrance hall and the ground floor rooms, there is a maze of back rooms upstairs that eventually spits you out on a balcony above the skylight, there is also an expansive maze-like basement as well - I lost my bearings more than once trying to work out the way back to the entrance hallway.
Thanks for looking....toot toot.
It's hard to get a definite date the place closed, but it became The Crying Tree around 2011, and this appears to have only lasted a few years before the building was once again sold in 2015. In 2017 a planning application was approved for conversion into numerous apartments, but so far nothing has happened.
Pubs are almost universally shit. So much so that in my 13 years of exploring I have done precisely one other pub - the Gipsies Tent Inn - which, as any old timers know, was filled with interesting old tat to look at. I, along with most people, tend to steer well clear of them because they are arguably the lowest of the low hanging fruit, frequented usually by social media explorers waving torches around at night proclaiming it to be spooky and haunted. However there have been, over the years, a few standout old pubs - as in, true old pubs in old interesting buildings - that have emerged and broken the usual mould. Case in point is this one, at it's core it's a distinctly average pub which normally I wouldn't give any thought to, but it's located inside a way above average building and made for a fun way to spend an hour and a half or so.
Away from the main entrance hall and the ground floor rooms, there is a maze of back rooms upstairs that eventually spits you out on a balcony above the skylight, there is also an expansive maze-like basement as well - I lost my bearings more than once trying to work out the way back to the entrance hallway.
Thanks for looking....toot toot.
that wig was on point.
