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Old Street, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6LA

Old Street is only a stones throw from the bustling market area but is home to a more traditional retail offer. The Cherry Tree Cafe next door to the closed pub has seen some recent investment and enhances the street scene.

At the eastern end of Old Street, Ashton-under-Lyne.

A very impressive exterior, but it isn't worth discovering the interior.

#2-4 Old Street is currently being marketed as an investment property consisting of 2 shops and 2 apartments. #2 is currently tenanted by Black Karen tattoo parlour whilst #4 is vacant. ##6-8 Old Street opened in the mid 1990s as a 1970s theme pub called Boogie Wonderland but it has now changed its name to Mynt. Above ##6-8 Old Street is the RCCG City of Truth Church managed by the Redeemed Christian Church of God https://www.trccg.org/

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

Compare with a similar view from 1978 Image The end wall above what is now Bridgfords estate agaents has been finished off with white plasterwork covering the wall painting. Chimney breasts which then extended above the roof line have been removed. In the background is Old Cross Street which was then an informal car park. Between 2004 and 2008 the area housed a temporary "Phoenix Market" during the rebuilding of Ashton Market Hall. After that was demolished in 2009 Image a pay and display car park was established there again.

The Angel Hotel is one of the oldest pubs in Ashton, having held a licence since 1762. The original building was nearby in Court House Yard, but was rebuilt in 1868 on the corner of Old Street and St Michael's Square. http://ashton-under-lyne.blogspot.com/2008/02/angel.html

The former Pitt and Nelson pub on the corner of Market Street and Old Street. It was one of the oldest pubs in Ashton, dating from 1685, when this corner was the junction of the roads from Manchester and Oldham. Originally it was The Smithies Arms then The Grapes and The White Hart. It became the Pitt and Nelson in 1807, shortly after the deaths of Admiral Lord Nelson and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger. It closed sometime after 1989 and was later re-born as The Bedroom night club. http://ashton-under-lyne.blogspot.com/2008/05/pitt-and-nelson_23.html Since then its license has been revoked and the building has been boarded up for nearly two years. It looks set to reopen as retail premises.

An exuberantly tiled and mosaic facade, advertising Shaw's Ales, Dukinfield, long since gone; internally two drinking areas with back counter, TV, table football, games machine, pool table, but no cask ale available.