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Pear Tree Lane, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 1BD

The emblem over the main door into the 1937 pub. Image William Butler's were taken over by Mitchells and Butlers of Smethwick in 1960. The Springfield Brewery in Wolverhampton suvived until 1991.

The pub has been closed for over a month to be refurbished and rebranded to the 'Farmhouse Inns' brand. Greene King acquired the pub as part of the takeover of the Spirit Pub Company in 2015. The Berry Brook is the old name for the nearby Waterhead Brook and was also used to rebrand the Underhill Primary School.

The 'Pear Tree Inn', a landmark on the town boundary, was until recently branded as the 'Millhouse'. It is refreshing to see that the new management chain has reverted to the original name. For many years this was the terminus for the trolleybuses with a turning circle in the Cannock Road.

A hostelry has stood on this site for many years. The current building was built in 1937 to serve the expansion in trade as the neighbouring Scotlands Estate and private housing developed. The pub marked the terminus of the trolleybus route. The licensee was Bert Adey the noted local boxer, trainer, second and promoter. Contests were held in the field behind the pub drawing crowds of up to 3000. Bert retired after almost half a century. The pub recently reverted to the Pear Tree name after several years as the Millhouse.

Something of a landmark pub, beside the A460 Cannock Road on the outskirts of Wolverhampton.

Built to serve a rapidly expanding population in the area.

At the south end of Pear Tree Lane (right foreground), looking rather out of place among the rather more modern housing along the rest of Blackhalve Lane.

At the intersection of Blackhalve Lane and Pear Tree Lane.

Now partly built over in the foreground, this patch of road was once used as a turning circle by trolleybuses (latterly on routes 12 and 13). The destination shown was "Low Hill (Pear Tree)", the Pear Tree being a pub out of frame to the left; nowadays, Low Hill is more associated with the interwar housing estate a mile or two west of here, and in fact the 1950s Underhill estate just reaches Cannock Road here (right). Nowadays, the main bus service along Cannock Road goes into the estate, leaving only the out of town route to Cannock serving this stop.