OLD WEST BROMWICH PHOTOS

Just heard the Stone Cross pub closes for business this week, could this be the final nail in the coffin for this fine old building. I did hear some time ago the people building the flats next door were interested in the place to flatten and build on.

Chris, did you hear this from a reliable source?  I can see why the developers would be interested, but I'd have thought now would be the wrong time, unless the brewery sold the pub for a song. My dad's cousin Ted Woodward kept the Stone Cross for many years.

My dad was in the chemist opposite the pub today and the chemist told him that it was closing and that it was going to be turned into a Health Centre with 4 doctors in it .

I also heard today, but I haven't seen it anywhere mentioned, that the Methodist Church in Vicarage Rd is also closing in a couple of weeks

Paul

Bob, I read it on the Stone Cross homepage on Facebook, that page is now being transferred and operated from the Queens Head by the hospital which has been shut for some weeks, reading between the lines the gaffer from the Cross must be taking on the Queensl leaving the Cross Gafferless.

I`d rather it was turned into a Health Centre than knocked down like everthing else

Is the Cross a listed building I wonder ?

Bob, I didn`t know your family were related to the Woodwards, I knew Ted and Margy really well and used to knock about with Kelvin their son when we were kids. Kelvin actually now lives right opposite my Mom in Bustleholme Lane having moved from the top end of Bustleholme lane where he lived in my Nans old house right by the Jervoise lane nasty bend.

Hi Chris, Ted's mom and my dad's dad were brother and sister. I know Kelvin by sight, and his sister Dee. I don't know if you've read it, but there was a great little book issued about 12 years ago called ' Best of Times, Best  of Places'. A great insight into life on Stone Cross and nearby.

One of my son's friends was supposed to be having party at The Stone Cross next month. They rang her to say the pub has been sold after being on the market for a while. She say's that the buyer is Chinese, but dosen't know what his plans are. Big Wok anyone?

Oh No !!...Not another takeaway on the Cross !!

I have today heard, from a good source, that it is in fact going to be another Health Centre

I remember, in my youth going into the Stone Cross quite regulary and that old Barman behind the bar with a HUGE red nose, I think his name was Lou ??

Paul

You are correct about the aforementioned Barman being named Lou

If the Chinese have bought it you will find it`s gonna be an all you can eat for a tenner place like the Hen and Chickens in Oldbury.

stone cross was a meeting place for us teenagers during the war,the pub was always full of soldiers,(both sexes) from the artillery camp next door..years later my mate,maurice james,was a bartender,i,m surprised it is closing being in such a populous area,but i guess things have changed in the 37 years since i left..bill phillips

The Off Licences sell 8 cans of Beer for a Fiver or less and a pint  in the pub is the best part of  £ 3 depending where and what you drink

Smoking ban etc etc, no work, short time all add to the Pub`s demise countrywide.

So the Cross has closed for now, the Lions flattened The Manor is closed as is the Spinney, there`s only The Jinglers or the Oak or the Mill on Charlemont to get a pint thesedays unless you are a member of one of the Charlemont clubs.

If you live on the Cross or Charlemont that is

OMG the Cross has gone ??

Mind you, it was always a 'rough' pub because it was on the main bus route and the gangs uses to bus it in years ago and meet there for a shindigg

The Spinney has a new owner. Jit who owns the red lion on all saints way has purchased it and plans to open it any time now.

I remember Lou behind the bar !

We always used to go into the cross then walk down to the Navi, even the Navi has gone and now the Cross.

I went back to West Brom a few months ago for a wedding and I couldn't believe that the Bingo hall had gone, the one that used to be a cinema and there was now some half built houses on there

Who on earth would want to live in the middle of a traffic island ?

They are still half built, run out of money apparently

I went past those houses yesterday and it looks like work has started up again on them but, like Michael, I can't believe anyone would want to live on the island

Chris Hill at 04:13AM on Apr 18, 2009

Bob, I didn`t know your family were related to the Woodwards, I knew Ted and Margy really well and used to knock about with Kelvin their son when we were kids. Kelvin actually now lives right opposite my Mom in Bustleholme Lane having moved from the top end of Bustleholme lane where he lived in my Nans old house right by the Jervoise lane nasty bend.

haha that has really put a smile on my face that i can relate to this comment! i know kelvin through his son alex who i went through primary and secondary school with! really nice family! my family was actually going to buy their old house by the nasty turn on jervoise lane. weird how stuff like this connects.