'Everyone that comes to see it says it's like stepping into a different world'
Just a few yards from the rumble of traffic on one of Stockport 's busiest roads, there's a hidden idyll that's steeped in history. Vale Close is one of Heaton Mersey 's oldest streets.
Then, around 1830, Heaton Mersey became a fashionable suburb for the well-off. Attracted by views over the Mersey and the easy access to both Manchester and Stockport, newly-rich industrialists built several large villas along the ridge of the valley. Their legacy remains in the form of a board displaying their codewords and fines hung next to the bar. Manager Martin Haugh says the timber-beamed pub is also rumoured to have its own ghost, called Malcolm, who prowls the bar late at night.
"There also used to be a large garden out the back where all the kids used to play. People knock on all the time to say they used to play there when they were children.
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