Stretton on Fosse. Golden Cross Inn

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  My father wrote a short book about his childhood in Stretton in the war years. Here is what he wrote about the Golden Cross:
  ‘I spent a lot of my time around the farm buildings and fields of the Golden Cross, it was a combined hotel and farm. Mrs Marsh was the landlady, a real worker, she ran the ‘Cross’ with the help of her daughters. In the 1940’s it was mostly used by local people, as petrol was rationed and there were few passing cars. I used to help feed and muck out, usually with Joan Marsh. Mrs Marsh always gave me a jug of milk as reward for my odd jobs to take to my granny. Joan was very kind to me as I was full of questions about farming and country life. As a boy she helped me along very well indeed. Mrs Marsh would hand out free pints of cider as ‘thank-you’s’ to the chaps at the end of their labours. She kept a couple of cows, reared calves, pigs for the family and many types of poultry. Yes, hey were grand days for a child to grow up in.
  ‘The Edge of the Cotswolds – Childhood country memories of the 1940s’
  Peter David Hall

  By Maureen Smalls (09/05/2021)
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  Was so nice to read this and see the photo, Joan Marsh was my mum, and Mrs Marsh my granny Alice, I was born in Stretton, my mum Joan had 7 children and she married the brother of the man who bought the golden Cross some years later, Richard Hughes,

  By Diana foster (04/05/2022)