Showing posts from January, 2012
Over the past week, it's seemed a little odd peering in through the windows at Wetherspoon's. It's all dressed up yet somehow looks abandoned, left on the shelf, like someone who's made an effort at a dance but who's left as a wall…
31 hours to go before the doors open and the mayor officially opens the refurbished-under-Wetherspoon's-ownership Castle Hotel. This makes me wonder who opened the original, the White Lion (as it was once known), in c.1843 (for the building fron…
You may also have spotted a large advertising board that can sometimes be seen in the occasionally open Castle Hotel entrance. It's not always on display. It reads, "Breakfast open at 7.00 a.m." That'll be Wednesday, then, because th…
Much of the comment in Rhuthun/Ruthin town about the coming of Wetherspoon's refers to its likely impact on other pubs (and even cafés). But there will be more to this particular JDW than that. The Rhuthun branch is one of a select number to offer…
Almost everyone I speak to says the same thing about the restoration job they've done on the Castle Hotel. It looks resplendent. I predict a Civic Society Quayle Award will come their way, this time around. And rightly so. Here we have the view …
It’s been a fair while since I’ve expectantly faced Blogger's 6½ x 2½" white author's rectangle window (yes, that's all the space Blogger gives you). Yet, I feel compelled to break my silence because Rhuthun/Ruthin is on the verge of …
