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Date of photo: 1903	Picture source: Alan Barton
The Crow Inn was situated at 3 Bridge Street. This pub was burnt down in 1903 (see aftermath in photo above). The man in the bowler hat was Arthur Bennett, Mayor of Warrington, who wrote the following poem about this pub:
The Quaint Old Crow (Song of an Ancient Inn) In the days of old when our hearts were young, We have quaffed our draught and have laughed and sung; We have drunk to our local damsels fair, With their melting eyes and their silken hair, We have joked and smoked in the morning glow, For the world went well at the quaint Old Crow In our manhood's crime we have laughed to scorn The foes of old John Barleycorn, We have toasted our British "hearts of oak" And drunk confusion to foreign folk And success to our town and land, I trow, In a foaming cup at the quaint Old Crow. And as time went on and our hair turned grey We have puffed our pints in the same old way; We have talked and gossiped as old men will, While the clock ticked on, and we drunk our fill, Till our pipes we quenched for the fires sank low In the cosy rooms of the quaint Old Crow. And, at last, the thatch on our heads got thin, And our eyes let little of daylight in; And our ribs grew bare - 'tis the same today - Like these crumbling walls, we were built of clay, But the moon shines just as it used to glow, When the world was young at the quaint Old Crow. Arthur Bennett (1904).
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