Hot Cross Bun Ceremony

Each year a sailor or a wren adds a bun to a collection in a ceremony that dates back some 150 years. The story behind the tradition is that a widow, whose house sat on the site now occupied by the pub and whose only son was at sea, put out a hot cross bun on Good Friday in anticipation of his return for Easter. He never returned, but each Good Friday she hung a bun from the ceiling of her house in his memory. As to how many buns remain – you'll just have to visit the pub to find out.