Under the cover of newspapers blocking the windows of the corner shop which for years was Saddle Up (and a tourist information centre) is a transformation into a tiny café. The problem, however, is that they don't have the necessary permissions (yet) and, till they do, they cannot open. It's a very small space for a café and the tenants have a short lease of three months to see if it'll work.
As the £1mil makeover of the Co-op continues, workers are even attending to the lamp columns, painting the previously white posts a fetching and modish shade of charcoal.
Most welcome, however, is the illumination along the sloping path from Wynnstay Road to the Co-op. This is difficult in the dark, especially when leaves make the surface wet and slippery. For the Co-op's 27 years (including its predecessor Lo-Cost), this path has never been illuminated. Well done, Co-op.
PHOTO OF PATH HERE
Norma Elizabeth has, of course, closed, following the ill-health retirement of its elderly owner (and the recent death of her husband). Its owners (who have a number of units in Ruthin, especially Well Street) are preparing the shop for its next lease of life. There's quite some modernising necessary within, below.
Work has at last restarted on the former Annie's, which previously was a couple of unsuccessful restaurants. After next to no progress over the autumn and winter, there are signs of life again, below. It's anticipated that the place will reopen "Small Plates", an off-shoot of the ever successful On the Hill.
A number of buildings in town are under scaffolding at the moment (e.g. the Co-op, Siop Elfair), including the adjacent State of Distress and Bar Llaeth/Milk Bar. Bar Llaeth is also undergoing something of an internal makeover and it's even suggested by those who run it that it might even change its long-established name.
Meanwhile, Machine Cottage, Well Street, has undergone a much-needed paint-up. Thankfully now gone is the drab, dull, dismal and dreary dark brown in favour of this more pleasant eggshell blue. A good move and well done.
A mild winter and the warmest February ever but we did have snow at the end of January (on and from 22nd), which lingered a little into February, as seen here on Sunday February 3rd, as a snow dog awaits Sunday worship outside Y Tabernacl.
The Upper Clwyd Street premises that was to be known as Brontë and was said to be opening in January hasn't. Meanwhile, another beauty parlour has sprung up, this time under the physio premises in Clwyd Street. It's known as The Brow Basement and seems to offer an HD-trained engineer because, after all, "brows are as unique as fingers prints" (so HD brows maintains). It's also interesting that the salon has a food hygiene rating of 5 out of 5 (though we suspect this is a throwback to the closed Oliver's Fudge, which closed in May 2018 after some six months of trading).
PHOTO OF PATH HERE
Norma Elizabeth has, of course, closed, following the ill-health retirement of its elderly owner (and the recent death of her husband). Its owners (who have a number of units in Ruthin, especially Well Street) are preparing the shop for its next lease of life. There's quite some modernising necessary within, below.
Meanwhile, Machine Cottage, Well Street, has undergone a much-needed paint-up. Thankfully now gone is the drab, dull, dismal and dreary dark brown in favour of this more pleasant eggshell blue. A good move and well done.
