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Demolition of The Cross Keys, 2013	Picture source: John Rowbotham
The Cross Keys was situated on Golborne Road. This was part of a group of houses, terraces and a shop in Stubshaw Cross, at the top of the hill north of Ashton-in-Makerfield.  It survived two wars and the end of heavy industry in the town and the mine closing. It outlasted another pub almost diagonally opposite on the same road - which was demolished to build a Christian Church in the 1990s!  However, despite a huge new estate of houses being built behind it at the end of the 1990s, the Cross Keys was rarely at all busy...and finally closed in 2012.  The husband and wife team were there to the end.  It was resolutely traditional in its look and feel and was demolished in 2013.
Source: Julie Winstanley
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Demolition of The Cross Keys, 2013	Picture source: John Rowbotham