The Crossways pub, 2011
2011 · The Crossways pub, Kingstanding
The Crossway Court, Kingstanding. 2011
From the Voices of Kingstanding page of memories of the Crossways on the Warren’s Farm estate.
Val recalls there: “There was a small entrance way that took you in to the Bar. There was a snooker table that took up a lot of room … it looked bigger from the outside actually, the function room was popular, it was situated on the far right of the pub, as you walked on to the car park.”
Notes
The pub appears empty and boarded in this photo. The bracketed “[in the lounge]” in one memory is an editorial guess at the second price.
Local memories
What people who knew this place have said about it, in their own words. These are memories, not checked facts.
“What I remember about the Crossways pub was the lovely 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 [in the lounge].”
“I lived next door to the Pub in the 60’s + 70’s … We played tennis in the yard behind the pub, badminton in the Function Room and shot our airguns across the bowling green when the members weren’t around.”
“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.”
“I lived at the Crossways, my dad was the landlord, Noel Walsh, 1974 onwards.”
“… wish instead of making it into flats they had redone the pub instead; to me it is criminal to let the pub decay so badly.”
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