The just published winter edition of Wetherspoonnews (sic) is out and available from, well, Wetherspoon's . There's a feature on what used to be called Wetherlodges, now simply known as Wetherspoon Hotels. There are 55. Within and on the cover…
A tally of those in our pubs as at 9 pm on Thursday, September 8th, 2022 in the evening: The Wine Vaults 2 The Corporation 3 The Feathers 4 The Boar's Head 4 …
Finished this week, it might look like they bought the fixtures & fittings from B & M's Christmas shop but actually the improved Wetherspoon's exterior is so much better than the unsightly and unwelcoming car park that preceded it. T…
It's been happening for centuries, the conversion of pub to home. Marketed from today as a residential rather than commercial property is the Old Cross Keys, Llanfwrog. The proprietors have since April 2013 tried in vain to sell as an on-going con…
Has Mwrog Street's The Farmers found itself a niche by offering food; or is the market already saturated? Older readers will recall times when The Farmers always did serve but the restaurant had been empty for some years. The Farmers recently ad…
I had to, really. Just couldn't help it. Poke my nose in to see inside Wetherspoon's, that is. It was lunchtime yesterday and it was already busy within. I reckon a lot of people were like me, just taking a look but, unlike me, plenty of them …
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…
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 …
Several comments appeared on & from Monday 12th September regarding the Castle Hotel's ceiling. As an example, "Has anyone seen the mess in the Castle Hotel reception? They have ripped down that lovely ceiling in the entrance way which,…
As I mounted Clwyd Street at about 9 p.m. last night, I marvelled at all the lights glowing in the Castle Hotel, on every storey. The shutters have gone. The brightness gave a little cheer to the gloom that is early autumn. It foretold of what we migh…
I view the proliferation of ugly scaffolding throughout Rhuthun/Ruthin as very much a positive thing. It may not be very nice on the eyes, it may resemble a builder's yard but it indicates optimism in the face of our soon-to-be double dip recessio…
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…
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…
Here's the result of the Castle Hotel survey . Thanks to all who took part. We asked, "Upon take over by Wetherspoon's , should the Castle Hotel change its name back to the original White Lion?" Just over three quarters of respond…
