The Ruthin Leisure Centre has reopened, after its third major refurbishment. This time's was a £600,000 facelift to include "village" changing rooms. Previous makeovers were in 2017 and especially 2014. Elsewhere, everywhere probably, authorities are cutting leisure expenditure back and even closing centres but not hereabouts. This advert was observed this month, in County Hall.
As reported on this blog, the welcome and "well needed" £1mil refurbishment of our Co-op began on January 14th. To facilitate work, the store closed early on Mondays to Thursdays.
Perhaps Leonardo's should first concentrate on boosting its food hygiene rating. It was nevertheless offering customers the opportunity to present their own coffee cups and salad bowls, which was a Good Thing.
We're not entirely sure when Uptown Furnishings of Park Road ceased trading but closed it certainly is. And the building's sold, to the D2 Architects, of Chester and Pentre Celyn. This seems to be following a trend, with Tŷ Architecture taking over the former Apparel/Greyhound Rescue building in Clwyd Street, in May 2018.And now there are just three carpet shops in town. "Just".
This is an interesting development: the conversion of the former clothes shop at the corner of St Peter's Square and Clwyd Street. It's to become a café, apparently. These days, it's a little small for such a development, we'd say but, then again, there are suddenly fewer cafés in town than once there were, so who knows whether this'll be a success. One thing's for sure, the tenants certainly read the 65p i newspaper. It alone covers the windows.
Another tiny unit is the shop next to Harris Toys, below. It's been many things in its time. It is currently home to an artist's studio and in spite of the weird settings of the art itself the shop's size certainly lends itself to such a venture.
This January, scaffolding has been erected at Wynnstay House, half of the former Wynnstay Arms/Cross Foxes. The building will undergo a thorough and sympathetic restoration, including righting much of the wronged bodged jobs over the years that are causing problems and damp. The refurb includes re-roofing the building. The internals will be completely gutted, to include the former pub's shoddy alterations when the previous owners hacked the place about to create Fusions and Bar W.
