Frank and Clara Ackroyd managed The Crown for a few years in the late 40s and their children attended Dean school.
I asked Tony Ackroyd what he remembered about the pub, and in particular if he remember the location of the cellar. He replied:
"The cellar was not really a cellar but a room about 2 steps down from bar floor level, it was situated diagonally opposite the front door, there was a piano to the left and I think the bar was facing the door, I remember a row occurring when a workman was hammering on the outside wall round by Darlow's and a couple of Whisky bottles came crashing down from a shelf, he came round a bit later on with some replacements, a bit shamefaced.
I remember on winter evenings my sister Jen and I would have crisp sandwiches and sit in front of the blacklead grate and listen to the wireless and at bedtime we had a 'hot brick' warmed up in the oven of that grate, wrapped in a sheet or blanket in place of a hot water bottle, I think it worked just as well
Tony Ackroyd (son)