10 White Horse lane
Canterbury
01227 451266
https://www.whatpub.com/cherry-tree
Above photo 1952.
Creative Commons Licence. |
Thomson & Sons ledger.
Creative Commons Licence. |
Above photo, 1953, showing a group of excited children (sons and
daughters of pub regulars) gathers to go off to enjoy the Christmas
pantomime. Kindly sent by Rory Kehoe. |
Above photo, 1961, kindly sent by Tim Timpson. |
Above photo, 1961, kindly sent by Tim Timpson. |
Above photo by Edward Wilmot 1965. |
Above photos taken by Paul Skelton, 19 May 2012. |

Cherry Tree sign left 1980s, sign right May 1991.

Cherry Tree sign left October 1992.
Cherry Tree sign right taken by Paul Skelton, 19 May 2012.
Above with thanks from Brian Curtis
www.innsignsociety.com |
One time this was owned by Charringtons but now (2012) operates as a Free
house.
Originally known as the "Fleur de Lis Tap" the premises changed name in
1949.
From
http://www.ghostpubs.com accessed 17 June 2015.
HAUNTED.
A large medieval street corner inn that, is possibly, to be the
oldest in Canterbury, the original building has history from 1372. It
exhibits ghostly manifestations. These include Gilbert, a traveller, who
was beaten to death at the inn and five men were later hanged for his
murder. His ghost is accompanied by a phantom cat that rubs itself
against customers' legs with faint mewling sounds. The ghost of a
previous archbishop, Simon Sudbury, roams Canterbury Cathedral. In
January 1380, Sudbury became Lord Chancellor of England. For his part in
the Peasants' Revolt against the poll tax, he was taken to Tower Hill
and, on June 14 1381, beheaded. His body was subsequently buried in
Canterbury Cathedral. Authorities removed his head from a wooden post at
London Bridge and carried with reverence to St Gregory's Church,
Sudbury, in Suffolk. However, when Archbishop Sudbury manifests at the
cathedral, his ghost has head and body attached.
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LICENSEE LIST
CUTLER Mrs D 1950-55
WILSON A G 1955-61 dec'd
WILSON D (widow) 1961-63+
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