Like *twitches* Pet Shop Boys, there are things where I feel I really must add the word "The" before their name. This pub is one of them - it is not The Cherrytree. Or at least it isn't now.
I headed here for lunch, but it seems that they only do it on weekdays. Which meant that I was forced to get a Hillbillys instead - what a terrible imposition!
But I could still get a pint and tick it off the list - and could have got coffee and cake, as they are operating a takeaway coffee shop window out of the side of the bar.
Only the main bar area appeared to be open - there were more sections darkened, and stairs going upstairs - but this was still a decent size. A few regulars were in, and there was floor service with a decent enough range of drinks on offer.
I can't nail down when the pub opened, but there was an extensive spread in the Evening Herald in June 1953 about the opening of their new "Cherry Garden", a beer garden (that actual term is used) that doesn't look like it would be too out of place in 2022. Of interest is the promotional plug for Cairnes Ale, making two suggestions that would absolutely not be allowed now!
The "The" falls off the pub name in media references and Thoms by the 1960s. The current pub social media was using a 20 years hashtag about 3 years ago, which would suggest the current owners have been there since ~1999.
Its near neighbour, S1484 The Kestrel has had multiple proposals to replace with apartments; but with a tighter site I'd hope that that common death of a suburban pub doesn't even get suggested here.
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