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Date of photo: 2007	Picture source: Carol Crocker
The Cross House was situated at the junction Pemberton Bank and Neil Street. This pub was present by 1891 when the publican was Joseph Scott. It has now been demolished and replaced by a new house.
Source: M&M Pearson
I currently live in the house built on the site of Cross House Pub. Me and my family have been trying to find out more about the land the house was built on but we don't seem to find much. We did find out that before it was called Cross House it was originally called the Seven Stars Pub. Then there used to be a Photographers Studio in between the pub and my house being built. When the foundation for the house was being made, the builders found old metal beds in what might have been the pub's cellar but we don't know if that was why they were there. We also have a lot of strange goings on in the house for example: The back door to the garden keeps closing itself (even when there is no wind) and the handle lifts up which stops the door from being opened easily often hear a little girl (we think about 8 years old but not sure) giggling and running around. We don't have an 8-year-old girl living in the house which is what makes even more odd. There have been a few times we've seen a woman dressed in Victorian style clothing looking through the living room window. One minute she's there and the next she's gone We did find out that apparently a miner who used to frequent the pub passed away either near by or in the pub itself. This has attributed to footsteps that can be heard walking from the window at the bottom of the stairs (where the original door to the pub was) and walking into what is my grandparent's bedroom on the first floor of the house (we think this is where the bar probably was).
Atlanta Colling (July 2022)
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