In the 1920s and '30s people arrived by train from Bolton in Lancashire for holidays, and stayed at the Hotel. Mr and Mrs Garner, the licensees during the Second World War, had a daughter, Betty, who remembers that during the war, when she was still a young girl, American soldiers based at Delamere were frequent visitors. One morning she awoke to find the field opposite the Pub packed with American soldiers waiting to embark a train to join the second front. General Patton, complete with medals and tin hat asked Betty's mother for a double whisky: this was downed rapidly, followed by a request for another. As whisky was rationed, Mrs Garner refused; not even a four star General could make her change her mind!

Betty and her husband Jack Everett took over the Licence from her mother and father in 1950, and carried out substantial alterations in 1954. The old 'hatch bars' were removed and the present bar and central heating were installed, although the two open fires were retained.

In July 1972, the Railway Hotel was renamed the Hazel Pear Inn, to reflect the large number of Hazel Pear trees in the village, including an orchard of 56 behind the pub. Greenall Whitley of Warrington, who owned a brewery and a large number of public houses, including the Hazel Pear and The Maypole, sold their interests in brewing. Recently they sold the pubs to a Japanese bank.