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Rose & Crown Pub Hingeston St Hockley

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Rose & Crown Pub Hingeston St

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My parents ran the Rose and Crown about 1950 for three or four years. They were Fred and Lill Cross my name is Diane and my sister is Barbara she is five yeads older than me - My dads brother Les Cross was married to Lillie Myatt and lived in the hardwear shop also in Hingeston St. I remember going to Camden St School, also the Red Rec and I had a friend Raymond Crisp he had a sister I think her name was Janet they lived opposite the pub.
Because I was not very old and cannot remember very much about the time we lived there, would love to know if the pub still stands and if anyone remembers my parents.
Thanks Di
 
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hi all
does anyone remember the "Rowley Rag" pub, or "The Hen&Chickens", or the Bear in bearwood, great in there day.
paul stacey
 
I remember the 'Hen and Chickens' pub. Wasn't it on the main road on the way to Wolverhampton. The crossroads it was on went off to Oldbury...is that the one you are thinking od Paul?
 
hi mags
yes you are right, it was on the main wolverhampton road, remember the crooked house and kinver caves,how about the white swan at yardley "the dirty duck" to us lads, great times there though.
regards
paul
 
Paul, I don't remember some of the pub's you mentioned, most of my crazy day's were spent at the ice rink etc., I do remember the Rose & Crown,Hingeston St. I lived in Moreton St, which was just off Carver St. I did however, go to the 'Hen and Chickens' on several occasions.
 
I am sure someone asked for the image of this pub a few months back?

Oh, sorry, the pub was demolished in the early 70s methinks?

I think it is just landscaped & greened over where the pub stood.
 
hi dibb44...yes there is a pic of it on the hingestion st thread...dad lived there from about 3 months old until they moved to hunters vale..hockley...

astoness:)
 
Hi Dibbs
that was the pub that a lovely lady whom lived across the rd from ,
was accused of having an affair with the gather of the pub i have mentioned before in previous thread on the camden st the other day i did not name thetwo pubs previously
but now there is a pic i thought i would mention it and the other pub down the road was the laurells the gather there got stabbed and died he culprit got five years
this rose and crown the lady in question whom i knew personaly was not that way incline she always spent her time in the house with her kids she was a lovely never went any where and i knew her before she moved that house she lived next to the curly family in momument rd she only popped across the rd one lunch time to get her lazy husbands cigs and because she spent ages geting back across the rd with is fags he accused her of having the affair with the gather he picked up the axe and struck her in the head and killed her the other gather was at the laurells whom had trouble got stabbed beleive me hingegestion street had its charactors in the fifties and sixties the guy whom was responible for the laurells came from shakespear rd
lady wood but the rose and crown was a respectfully pub and very family orinatated
whom ever put that picture on the forum many thanks for the memory even thou its a sad memory for me because this lady and her family was my long time freinds foryears before moving to hingestion street i have a lot ofmemories of brook fields and the complete area have a nice day dibbs best wishes astonian ;;;
 
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