Thread: Cliff Vale Inn,Stoke

Went in here something like 10 years ago and we were stunned by how rundown it was inside. Dark and dingy with 2 or 3 elderly men the only other customers. It was so bad that we went back a couple of months later to check if it had improved at all but no,it hadn't. It was a Marston's pub.
(photos taken yesterday)

aww shame you couldn't get inside.

Somebody younger and fitter than me would've been able to

Ladder and an open window...don't know if I'd have been able to resist!!!

I'd only just finished work and was wearing my uniform - it wouldn't have looked very good if I'd been seen climbing through a derelict pub's window dressed like that!

Keep it relevant guys.

Hi Its many years since I have seen this pub... but I can say I know it well. I lived here in the 60's with my Grandparents. Mr Henry Leese was the landlord (my Grandad) in the 60's and early 70's. I lost contact with my Mum's side of the family but I would be interested to find Marlene and Linder Leese. I remember the pub as a buzzing place with a good old sing-song on the piano in the snug.
To the side of the pub was Beeche's plant and builders yard.

Never did get round to having a drink in the vale. But as it was on the main stoke-hanley bus route I've been passed it hundreds and hundreds of times over the years. I was always intrigued by it - I do remember it as Marstons. And as with many pubs owned by this brewery the decor was basic - and better for it, mostly. Anyway, the Vale always looked like one of the smallest pubs in Stoke. The nearest I ever got to it, drinks wise, was The Phoenix on Liverpool Road, and the other Marstons pub on the other side of the road a bit further down (just passed the chinese take away - the Cosmo, I think that was called).