The Rose And Crown

A Memory of Ramsey.

Mum and Dad (Roy and Joan) were the landlords of the Rose and Crown which is the white building in the middle of this picture. I was 14 at the time and Sarah my sister was 6. The pub also had a birthday while we were there 300 years (built 1661). The living accommodation was basic and the toilet was an outside shed and bucket but there was a flush job for the customers across the yard, I used that! We didn't have a sitting room so our TV was in the pub lounge, I would sit watching it doing homework with customers around me. I remember Jack Longland, the coalman I think, and his pal Bruce would sit behind me and pull my leg a little. Vic Pepper the green grocers just started helping out one busy Saturday night and did so unpaid regularly after that! Sadly the pub was pulled down in the 1970s, it would be listed nowadays. Fond memories.