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Crossing, Burton upon Trent

Operator: Stout & Stone Inns Ltd.
50 High Street, Burton upon Trent, DE14 1JS (View on Google Map)
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Large, attractive, two-storey building with bay windows on first floor, located close to the town centre. Renamed several times over the last ~20 years, its current name and logo are derived from L.S.Lowry's 1961 painting "Level crossing, Burton-on-Trent", which features the pub. After struggling for many years and suffering intermittent closure, the pub was revived in 2015 by an experienced Derby-based licensee but has recently (September 2023) changed operator.

Comfortably furnished throughout, there is a L-shaped bar area at the front, and a dining area to the rear which overlooks the garden. The dining area includes a small, more luxurious, raised section, partly partitioned from the remainder. Fairly adventurous menu, ranging from snacks to full meals; steak night Wednesday.

Quiz night Monday; karaoke night Thursday.

Historic Interest

An 18th-century pub, the Blue Posts (also called the Blue Stumps, incorporating Yeomans Brewery from 1745), once stood on the site. (Confusingly, a Blue Stoops pub/brewery also seems to have existed on the High Street around that period.) The Blue Posts appears to have been acquired by Marston’s around 1890. It was sold to Worthington’s in 1925, demolished and replaced by a new Blue Posts in 1927 (the year Worthington’s merged with Bass, Ratcliffe & Gretton). It remained a Bass pub until ~2002/3 (some uncertainty; sale not recorded), then a privately owned free-house until bought by Enterprise Inns in 2006 and renamed the Cosmopolitan. There followed further renaming (amid intermittent closures), the pub eventually re-opening in May 2015 as The Crossing.

Information for this venue is provided by the Burton-on-Trent & South Derbyshire Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Caliente; Brewers Bar; Cosmo; InnStitute; Cosmopolitan; Blue Posts
Local Authority
East Staffordshire District (B)
Last updated
22/06/2024
Last surveyed
25/02/2020
Pub ID
BOT/1054
Asset of Community Value
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Opening
Food
Monday
Noon - 10:30pm
Noon - 2:30pm & 4:00pm - 9:00pm
Tuesday
Noon - 10:30pm
Noon - 2:30pm & 4:00pm - 9:00pm
Wednesday
Noon - 10:30pm
Noon - 2:30pm & 4:00pm - 9:00pm
Thursday
Noon - 10:30pm
Noon - 2:30pm & 4:00pm - 9:00pm
Friday
Noon - Midnight
Noon - 9:00pm
Saturday
Noon - Midnight
Noon - 9:00pm
Sunday
Noon - 9:00pm
Noon - 5:00pm
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Current beers

This Pub serves 3 changing beers and 4 regular beers.

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Facilities
Lunchtime Meals Lunchtime Meals
Evening Meals Evening Meals
Not Sunday.
Garden Garden
Decking at front; patio and decking to rear.
Family Friendly Family Friendly
Disabled Access Disabled Access
Via side entrance from car park; disabled toilet available.
Parking Parking
Dog Friendly Dog Friendly
Front bar area only
Smoking Smoking
At front and rear, no cover other than umbrella shades.
Wi Fi Wi Fi
Free
Features
Real Ale Real Ale
Real Cider Real Cider
Usually 2; choice varies.
Transport
Close to bus routes (100m)
Midland Classic: 1 (inbound only; not Sunday), 3 (not Sunday), 8 (not Sunday), 17 (limited daytime service; not Sunday); Trent Barton: V1 (outbound only except Sunday), V3; Arriva Midlands / Trent Barton: X38 (joint service; outbound only)
Other bus services operate from New Street bus station, some 400m distant.
Closest station (1000m)
Burton-on-Trent
Directions
On north corner of jct with Worthington Way.
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