Ahead of Friday's open day at the old Anchor pub, the Rhuthun/Ruthin Blog has been granted exclusive access to the new Ruthin School dorms, now renamed Goodman. It was in late October 2012 that Stephanie's last pub, Rhuthun's Ye Olde A…
I have come across a copy of the Denbighshire Free Press dated February 5th, 2004. Readers may like to know some of the changes within. First, though, is the headline "Waterworld". The article refers to flooding across the region. Rhuthun/…
We now know that Ruthin School has bought Ye Olde Anchor Hotel. It was suddenly in November 2012 that The Anchor closed its doors for the last time, as an inn. It marked Stephanie Booth's final exit from the hotel trade, a business she entered …
I am confident that everyone reading this will wholeheartedly welcome the news that J D Wetherspoon will start work on the Castle Hotel after the bank holiday, on Tuesday. This is because it is one of Rhuthun/Ruthin's most prominent buildings. Oth…
Yesterday, bailiffs acting on behalf of the Myddleton Arms' landlords entered to take possession of the building. This obviously forced its closure and the Myddleton now joins a lengthening list of Rhuthun/Ruthin pubs that have recently closed or …
Pubs, guest houses and eateries in Rhuthun/Ruthin now have nine months before Wetherspoon's is to open. The perceived wisdom is that Wetherspoon's is a-comin' in January 2012 to the Castle Hotel. No one seems sure quite yet when the Castl…
Stephanie Booth And we're not talking about the famous Harmony hairspray TV commercial slogan of the 1970s. Though maybe Stephanie's hairdo has a touch of the 1970s Farrah Fawcett feathered lioness about it (not to be confused with that emula…
The Castle Hotel hasn't closed after all… not quite yet. It *did* close earlier in the month but has reopened. It was expected to have shut again from Monday, to facilitate the Wetherspoon's take-over but this is now expected in another fort…
The big news in today's Free Press seems to confirm the rumour around town (and on this blog via Comments) that Stephanie's Castle Hotel has passed to J D Wetherspoon. Mind you, there's nothing especially concrete from the latter. Not t…
About a fortnight ago, one of Rhuthun's most prominent buildings has relied on two supports to keep its entrance canopy and the balcony above from collapsing. Is this a symptom of Rhuthun at Christmas 2010? We're talking of the Castle Hote…
Talking of repaints as we were yesterday, the owners of the property at the junction of the Square and Well Street, now in the hands of Creative Image, were very quick to remedy the falling plasterwork and bubbling paint on its frontage, having done s…
Wonder whether owner of the Anchor and the Castle Hotel , Stephanie Booth , reads Ruthin Town & Around. This is the newsletter of the civic association. On page three, the September 2010 edition featured her Castle Hotel, but not in a positive way…
The last time I ate in the Castle Hotel, the restaurant was called Off the Square. That was pre-Stephanie and it tells you how far back it was... so it was time, on Saturday, to try again... What does £5 get you these days? Exactly a gallon of petro…
Suddenly, local Stephanie Booth is a TV celebrity. Could she do for Rhuthun/Ruthin what she seems to be doing for Llangollen? Did you catch Monday’s BBC1 Wales fly-on-the-wall on local celebrity Stephanie Booth? I did. “Catch” implies serendipity or …
