The Crossways pub and College Road, 1938
1938 · College Road
The Crossways pub and College Road in 1938.
The Crossways stood on College Road at the edge of the Warren Farm estate. Readers of Voices of Kingstanding remember its bowling green, its function room and its landlords.
Local memories
What people who knew this place have said about it, in their own words. These are memories, not checked facts.
“Hi Val what I remember about the Crossways pub was the lovelly bowling green in the back grounds”
“I have happy memories of watching my grandfather Frank Hall playing there (and as a child stubbing my toe on the special bag he had for his three bowls) My uncle Dick Taylor also played there and I think for Warwickshire”
“I worked there in the early 60’s when Reg Paget was the gaffer. The price of a pint of mild was 1/8d in the bar and 1/9d.”
“The landlord at the time was a irish man named Benidict Bresslaw”
“I lived there for 3 years from age of 8 to 11. My parents ran the pub back then. Their names are RAy and Cath Flint from 1972 to 1975 I think”
“We played tennis in the yard behind the pub, badmington in the Function Room and shot our Airguns across the bowling green when the members weren’t around.”
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