Lynton Tavern, Weeping Cross

[darts22]

The pub is now demolished. Just the living quarters building is left which will probably be down by the end of the week.
Read all about its history from the day it was built as The Crossbow in Book 2 of The Inns and Alehouses of Stafford. www.john-connor.co.uk

 

[staffordjas]

I used to work behind the bar when it was The Crossbow, under 'Major' Frank Carey

 

[Gramaisc]

I lived in Porlock Avenue from 1974-78 - I went into the Crossbow once.....

 

[littleme]

I worked for Pullman Foods & phoned twice a week for their frozen food order, I visited a few times too with Ivor the company rep

 

[staffordjas]

I lived in Porlock Avenue from 1974-78 - I went into the Crossbow once.....

Hope it wasn't me who put you off going again (He didn't like me serving in the bar with the blokes, which I prefered . Used to stick me in the lounge most times. Only he could serve in his cockail bar and only once asked me to make an irish coffee for one of his elite few. Wasn't too impressed when I stirred it )

 

[darts22]

Played for the darts team for many years, good crowd in the bar in the 60s and 70s. Put some good food on for us did the Major, had his faults but run a good ship. Sad end for him to pass away in a nursing home. Could never understand why some locals did not like the place, was it the atmosphere, the people or just the landlord? 1/10d a pint when I first went in, so it couldn't be the prices

 

[Gramaisc]

Hope it wasn't me who put you off going again (He didn't like me serving in the bar with the blokes, which I prefered . Used to stick me in the lounge most times. Only he could serve in his cockail bar and only once asked me to make an irish coffee for one of his elite few. Wasn't too impressed when I stirred it )

Basically, it was just that it was like an Officers' Mess and it didn't suit me any more than, I suspect, I suited it...

I, generally, walked down the river to the Prince of Wales and, presumably, returned the same way..

 

[staffordjas]

I lived in Porlock Avenue from 1974-78 - I went into the Crossbow once.....

Basically, it was just that it was like an Officers' Mess and it didn't suit me any more than, I suspect, I suited it...

I, generally, walked down the river to the Prince of Wales and, presumably, returned the same way..

I started in the Crossbow in 1974 and was also frequenting the Prince of Wales around the same time as you (as well as most of the other pubs in town.... )

I finished working there after I'd worked all over xmas and 'Trish' his wife told me that I had to work New Years Eve or I wouldn't get paid for the xmas shifts I'd worked. I walked out and never did get paid for all those hours .

 

[Apricot]

The living quarters are now demolished too. The whole thing is just a big pile of rubble. I feel so sad walking past it and seeing it disappearing more each day, even though I rarely went inside. I left Stafford when I was 18, only came back for visiting parents, and by the time I did move back I had no time or money for pubs.

 

[Now&Then]

I used to visit The Crossbow late 60s in the days before the introduction of "drinking-up" time - mainly just to wait for the landlord's booming out "Ladies and gentlemen, it is twenty-TWOOO minutes paaarst ten. May we have your glaaarsses, please - your glaaarsses, please." It was rumoured that if you were caught taking the final sip just one second after 10.30pm, you would be shot on your way out.