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David Lawson, publican	Picture source: Paul Skirrow
The Cross Keys was situated on Church Street. In 1851 it was The Shoulder of Mutton with the Innkeeper listed as John Dickinson, born in Bewerley, nearby, in the 1780s. At some point it is believed that it was called The Cricketer's Arms, probably its first name. In the late 19th century as The Cross Keys it was under the Metcalfe brewery of Pateley Bridge. In this picture it seems to be tied to John Smith’s. An elderly man in the 1980s who had drunk in the Cross Keys as a younger man, said that the room behind where the landlord is standing, the first bay window, was the men’s room, or tap room, with sawdust on the floor and access to the cellar for the beer. He said the second bay window to the landlord’s right was the women’s room where they could sit, drink tea, knit and chat. The pub closed in 1957 and is currently divided into three separate dwellings.
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