On Wednesday 29th September we held a Macmillan Coffee Morning.   We would like to thank everyone who donated cakes, there were so many lovely cakes and they were all sold.   We had a Tombola stall with lots of lovely prizes donated.  In total we raised £280 which has been donated to this great charity […]

As from 1st October, we are standardising our opening hours as follows: Monday – ClosedTuesday – 18:30 to 22.30    This is our Pub games night,  where our Darts Team and Crib players meet Wednesday – 10:00 to Midday – Coffee Shop, Post Office and Library Thursday – 18:30 to 22.30 – (Including Quiz Nights and Monthly Open Mic Night) Friday – 18:30 to […]

Post Lockdown opening It was disappointing news yesterday for the Great Bromley Cross.   We will be in Tier 2 when we come out of lockdown on Wednesday 2nd December which means we will not be able to serve alcoholic drinks unless we serve a “substantial meal” .  Unfortunately at this time we are not in […]

Our Wednesday morning Coffee Shop will be opening again on 26th August, serving coffee and cake from 10am to 12pm. We have a limited number of tables which have been placed for social distancing and a table service will be in operation.  There is no need to book but if you would like us to reserve […]

We are looking forward to welcoming you back on Friday 31st July.   For starters. we will be opening on Friday evenings 6:30pm to 10:00pm and Sunday lunchtimes 12pm to 3pm.  We will monitor these sessions with a view to opening on further days in the coming weeks.   We will not be serving food at present but will […]

Dear Customer/Shareholder/Volunteer We do hope you are all well and missing us as much as we are missing you.  I can’t believe it has been over three months since our doors were open to customers. We wanted to let you know that discussions are underway for the re-opening of the Great Bromley Cross.  The Committee […]

What an excellent night it was, with everyone dressing to impress in their DJs and party frocks. Once again Paul worked his charm and tickets were sold out for this event, so a big thank you to Paul who has now been promoted to “Chief Events Organiser”.  We had three sponsors for the night Barry […]

I am pleased to announce that we won the Tendring Community Business of the Year Award in October. Thank you to Kate who nominated us. This is a big achievement and we would like to thank all our volunteers past and current and our wonderful customers.

Our annual Conker Championship took place on Sunday 13th October. We had a record number of entries and the pub was full of spectators too. A big thank you to Ray Baker who sponsored the event by buying the Trophies. The tournament was judged by Paul and assisted by Christine who kept everyone in order. […]

We have received a suggestion that maybe we should offer our customers a drink on their birthday.  I believe this has been adopted by a number of other pubs in the area.   We have tried to get our heads around how we could manage this and think the best way to do it is […]