Old Street
Introduction
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Old Street
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 31 Oct 2011
Old Street was originally the main road from Stalybridge to Manchester. On the left of the Cherry Tree Cafe is what was the Pitt & Nelson Image which has been closed and turned into various retail units. To the right of the cafe is another closed down public house, recently known as Chambers. The first written records of a pub on this site are from 1808 when it was known as Heap's Vaults and Robert Heap was granted a full licence for the premises. However, it is thought to have existed, perhaps as a beer house, from around 1791. The pub was rebuilt or substantially altered in 1860, as shown by the date stone above the ground floor windows. The Heap family ran the pub for 109 years until 1900, when Walter Newton took over and changed the name to Ye Olde Vaults. http://ashton-under-lyne.blogspot.com/2011/01/ye-olde-vaults.html
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Image Location
Latitude
53.488577
Longitude
-2.091443