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Site of The Hessle Pear, 2011	Picture source: Google Streetview
The Hessle Pear was situated on Fenside Road. It has now been demolished and replaced by private dwellings; only the sign remains.
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This pub was previously known as the Hessle House. It was owned by the Soulby, Son & Winch brewery until 1951 when it was purchased by JW Green of Luton.
Adam Cartwright (April 2011)
Originally a private house, Hessle House was built by my great-grandfather Mr Thomas Vinters and lived in by him and his wife and their eight children. The name refers to a type of pear -- my great-grandfather had fruit orchards all round including pear trees.  I remember it as a very run-down pub which closed probably in the 1960s and was left derelict for several years. I think the current modern estate was built in the 1980s or even early 1990s.
Monica Allen (December 2012)
The Hessle Pear closed much later than claimed. I believe it closed sometime in the mid 1980s, and demolished and redeveloped in the early 1990s. I holidayed in the area every year and often used the off-sales which were located in a passage to the left of the bar area. I have also been in it and walked past it several times a day. I was a teenager in the 1970s/80s. My grandfather died in 1986 and I can't remember whether it closed before or after his death, but around that general time.
Ann (April 2016)
From Lincolnshire Heritage:
The early 20th century farmhouse at Hessle House farm was converted into a public house, also named Hessle House, following the construction of social housing nearby at the end of the First World War. Early 20th century building with later alterations, since demolished. Constructed of red brick with later quoining, with a 2 storey, 3 bay front, under a hipped tile roof, with 4 brick stacks at each hip end. The ground floor had a central doorway with overlight, flanked either side by bay windows dressed with ashlar stone. On the first floor were 2 non-bar windows with splayed lintels and a central window (later blocked). Renamed the Hessle Pear in the 1960s or 1970s. It was demolished circa 1990s. A row of modern houses now occupy this site.
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