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Northumberland House by Canaletto (1752). The Golden Cross Inn is to the left (note the sign hanging outside it)GOLDEN CROSS, THE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune is unique to London music publisher John Johnson's last large compendium of country dances and tunes, Choice Collection of 200 Favourite County Dances, vol. 8, published in 1752. The title perhaps refers the the Golden Cross Inn in Charing Cross, a London junction where where six routes meet. The inn was in existence as far back as 1643, for in that year the Puritans demanded the removal of the offensive (to them) sign of the cross hanging outside the establishment. At that time the inn was a halfway house in the village of Charing, situated between the distinct urban areas of London and Westminster. It was superbly located and for much of its existence a famous establishment, engendering a number of inns over the years (even into modern times) in various locations named 'Golden Cross' in homage. However the inn does not always come off particularly well in literature, for which there are several references. Dickens’ David Copperfield, who came up by coach from Canterbury, encountered the Golden Cross as “a mouldy sort of establishment,” and his bedroom “smelt like a hackney-coach, and was shut up like a family vault.” Edward Shergold wrote in the early 19th century the it was “A nasty inn, remarkable for filth and apparent misery”[1]. It was from the Golden Cross that Charles Dickens' character Mr. Pickwick started on his journey to Rochester. Further, Dickens' has his character Mr. Jingle relate the story of the lady who lost her head, which was based in fact, if elaborated: in 1800, as the Chatham and Rochester coach emerged from the gateway of the Golden Cross "a young woman, sitting on the top, threw her head back, to prevent her striking against the beam; but there being so much luggage on the roof of the coach as to hinder her laying herself sufficiently back, it caught her face, and tore the flesh … in a dreadful manner". Unfortunately, the accident subsequently proved fatal.
The inn was rebuilt in 1828 but demolished two years later to form part of the open space of Trafalgar Square.
Additional notes
Printed sources : - John Johnson (A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite County Dances, vol. 8), London, 1752; No. 33, p. 17. Offord (John of the Green: Ye Cheshire Way), 1985; p. 105.
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