The Definitive Guide to the History of
Pubs and Beerhouses in Coventry

Drinking in an Old English Town

Dog and Duck, Bayley Lane

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1693	?	ROYAL EXCHANGE
	1756	1770	DOG and DUCK
	1770	1773	CROSS GUNS
	1773	present	GOLDEN CROSS
This name is a reference to duck hunting. In 1756 4 soldiers were billeted here. In1770 a Birmingham gunsmith acquired a public house at the corner of Bayley lane and Hay Lane called the Dog and Duck, which he renamed the CROSS GUNS. This later became the Golden Cross. In 1693 a document records the purchase of the ROYAL EXCHANGE which forms "the Hay lane corner-house there with Bayley Lane" which is probably the same property.