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Testun Gwreiddiol (Anodiad: EAW041977 / 885379)
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The Cherry Tree Restaurant, Bridge Road (Now "Waitrose" supermarket)- Opened Easter 1921, this was the first subsidiary enterprise of the WGC Company. Situated next to the railway halt, it provided visitors and Garden Citizens with meals and entertainment, and gave the town a much-needed social centre. It certainly looked like a charming building, a timber construction which lay slightly further from the road than its successor (now Waitrose). It featured a larch pole veranda where meals could be taken, extensive gardens, a billiards room and bowling greens which were added in August 1925. A further extension in 1928 saw the Bridge Hall open to accommodate large meetings and dances.
New building
In 1932, the new, permanent Cherry Tree was built to replace the by-now decaying wooden structure and WGC Company sold on their interests to Whitbread the brewers.
The new building had much more space and was a great success at first, but many thought it lacked the charm and intimacy of the old building and it slowly lost its place as the town's social centre, especially after the new Stores was built in 1939, when the Cherry Tree had to compete with the Parkway restaurant.
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