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Report - The Crying Tree/Gorsey Cop - Liverpool - June 2022

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Liverpool Urbex

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As pubs go, this one is pretty decent! Checked this place out after a failed attempt at Woolton Hall. Although the kids have been at it it's still a decent mooch.
That staircase is the redeeming factor!
Ignoring the vandalism the building is structurally in good nick.

Some history I completed robbed from @mookster
Check out their report here, better than mine :thumb

"
Built around 1870 - and named after the much older farm behind - it was one of three large houses built at the north end of Grange Lane. The original entrance was by the stone gate-pier that still survives on the corner of Gateacre Park Drive. The first known occupant was Betsey Cunningham, a Manchester cotton broker's widow, who had moved her family back to Liverpool in the 1850s. She lived at Oakfield in Cuckoo Lane before moving to Gorsey Cop and dying there in 1872. Betsey's sons, Walter and Harold, took over their father's cotton broking business. They also loved horses, which they grazed locally.

The next owners of Gorsey Cop were the McKechnies. Alexander McKechnie lived there for about 30 years. His father was a copper smelter who had moved from Scotland to Widnes. McKechnie Brothers went worldwide, making copper-related products. The family at Gorsey Cop won awards at Crufts for their terriers. After WW2 Gorsey Cop was bought by BICC. It still had grape vines and tennis courts, and was used as a club for managers. It also had a staff welfare function; if an employee at the Prescot factory had a problem, they were told to 'go to Gorsey Cop'.

In the late 1950s the building became a 'closed door casino'. Part of the curtilage became the site of Acresgate Court flats. In the 1970s the (by then legitimate) casino was acquired by Philippe Overd, the Algerian head chef at Liverpool's Adelphi Hotel. Gorsey Cop became Chez Philippe, his 'dream' French restaurant. It was a popular venue - but in business terms not a success. One night, fire broke out in the basement. Although the fire brigade managed to save the building, the insurance company refused to pay out, and Philippe was ruined.

In the 1980s the name changed again, this time to Grange Manor. New owner George Downey installed artworks and stained glass, and turned the stables into the American-themed Penrods bar. More changes followed - Elaine Wilson seeking planning permission for a hotel before going bankrupt, and 'two gentlemen from Blackpool' renaming it Harry's Bar - as successive owners struggled to run the premises at a profit. Eventually Enterprise Inns - a subsidiary of Bass Taverns - took over and it became the Crying Tree."

Some photos are a bit sketchy due to the lack of light in there and our visit was during sunset.
Photos shot on Sony A6400 & RX100iii

Visted with @georgebrwn & a non-member


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Cheers for looking :thumb
 

Nyrian

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You can see the access point in the third photo, that's been open for a long time as it's the same one I used!

Was there two weeks ago. That entrance is definitely boarded up now if that's the one main road side. When we got home and looked at the outside photos we took we spotted a possible high up entrance point though, so will be going back. (Might need the cover of darkness.)
 

mookster

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Was there two weeks ago. That entrance is definitely boarded up now if that's the one main road side. When we got home and looked at the outside photos we took we spotted a possible high up entrance point though, so will be going back. (Might need the cover of darkness.)

Nope, think more hidden than that. No idea if it's still open though.
 

Nyrian

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Nope, think more hidden than that. No idea if it's still open though.

Went back again. They've secured the side gate more and the fence gap down the hill has been repaired. We assume those are where people were getting in before and would also. assume that if those repairs have been done they'll have very likely bolted up the entrance door as well. We'll have to go with our original plan of going when darker and taking the high road.
 

Bikin Glynn

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Went back again. They've secured the side gate more and the fence gap down the hill has been repaired. We assume those are where people were getting in before and would also. assume that if those repairs have been done they'll have very likely bolted up the entrance door as well. We'll have to go with our original plan of going when darker and taking the high road.

I think its for the best, its slowly getting wrecked, will be a shame when the stained glass starts getting smashed.
 

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