Axe and Cleaver, Altrincham.

[Loretogirl47]

Does anyone remember this pub in Altrincham, relatives of mine ran the pup, the surname was Brookes.  If anyone has pictures of the pub or the owners/managers I would appreciate seeing them.

[ricky1]

Hi
here is one photo of it

http://www.altrincham-living.co.uk/axe_and_cleaver.htm

ricky

[Reiver]

For photos - 3 anyway - try the following

Google Trafford Lifetimes
(This is a site of photographs of Trafford which includes Altrincham and Dunham - where the Exe & Cleaver is.)
Choose Dunham under the heading Location
and enter as Keyword Axe.

You should get three photos.

At what period were your family there?

Reiver

[littlej]

Hi,

Be careful about pictures of the Axe & Cleaver Pub - there are two in the Altrincham area. The one sent to you in a previous post is not the one which was in Altrincham Town Centre, it is a few miles away in the village of Dunham Massey.

The Trafford Lifetimes Picture will be the right one,  I have lived in the area all my life and passed it every day on my way home from school. Unfortunately it no longer exists, it was demolished in the early 70's to make way for a new development in the main shopping street. You may be interested to know that the short hill which led up from the pub was always called the 'Axe & Cleaver Brew' and although only a small part of the road remains, most native Altys still refer to it as the 'Axe & Cleaver'

Jac

[LizzieW]

Jac

Which street was the Axe and Cleaver on in Altrincham?  Which school were you going home from when you passed it?  The pub name rings a bell with me, but it's amazing how once you move away from a place you begin to forget the landmarks and it is 45 years since I left the area.

Lizzie

[littlej]

Lizzie,

I've just replied to your post re the Berry family, but now for the Axe & Cleaver pub.

It was at the bottom of Kingsway where it joined George Street. Kingsway runs down from the Old Market Place (where the black & white buildings are). I used to ride all the way down George St on my way home from Altrincham Grammar to my home off Barrington Road. After I married in 1967 I moved away for 8yrs and then returned to live in Sale  where I still live.

My Mum was born, lived all her life and died in the same house in Altrincham. I never really got into FH until after she died in 2002. Don't you just always want to tell your Mum what you've found out?
I find it so frustrating.

Jac

[Loretogirl47]

Thanks for the link to Trafford.  I believe my relatives would have been owners of the pub, in the early 1900s, or possibly right around the turn of the century.  I walked past the pub on my way to school at Loreto almost every day and never knew the history until the past couple of years.

[LizzieW]

Jac

I know where you mean now.  I have on my wall a sketch of the Old Bank, one of the black and white buildings, which I got from my mum's place after she died.  Was/is there a theatre on Barrington Road, called The Garrick?  We used to go there on Saturday mornings for drama school, not that we were any good.

I thought you might have gone to Altrincham Grammar, so did I but I left in 1958 after the Lower VIth form as it was called then.  I see you are about 4 years younger than me, so I guess you would have been at the end of your 2nd year. 

Did you find The Downs on your map.  I imagine when you came out of school and turned left, down the Higher Downs, you then turned left somewhere to get to Kingsway and George Street.  If instead you had continued down the hill, that is The Downs.  It takes you down to Stamford New Road, which is where the Manchester buses used to turn round.

Inprincegeorge - Oddly, I remembered where Loreta Convent was more easily than I remembered where George Street was.  Was North Cestrian School next door?  My brother went there.

Lizzie

[Reiver]

Having blotted ny copybook with forgetting that there was an Axe and Cleaver in Altrincham, I just wondered wheher it was worth adding this memory. 

My memory of the Axe and Cleaver is of the stone(?) steps which were alongside it allowing people to climb from the George Street level up to the Chester Road level. I never saw anyone using them though 

Reiver