{"id":349915,"date":"2026-01-03T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349915\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:22:07","slug":"builder-steve-kind-restores-maenllwyd-pub-where-he-had-stag-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349915\/","title":{"rendered":"Builder Steve Kind restores Maenllwyd pub where he had stag do"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I think most people probably would want to shut the door on whatever happened on their stag do and not be reminded of it.<\/p>\n

“But my family had been associated with the building for many, many decades.<\/p>\n

“My stepfather remembers pumping water here [from a well] for the family when he was a kid and he lived nearby, and when it came on the market, I felt it’d be nice to buy it and restore it.”<\/p>\n

Steve, 57, told Saturday’s BBC Radio Wales Breakfast<\/a> that the country pub was from a bygone era, having been a farm where he had also worked during hay-making in his youth.<\/p>\n

In 1990, he went on to have his own stag do at the pub before the landlord eventually called time on the business later that decade.<\/p>\n

Steve recalled how second generation publican Len Lewis had a tiny drop down bar from where he served beer by a jug after using a brass tap to open barrels of beer.<\/p>\n

Steve and Jo bought the property seven years ago and it took them three years to restore and turn it into a rental property.<\/p>\n

They found old paperwork which showed how customers’ drinks where recorded with their name on a tick list.<\/p>\n

“So anybody who wants to know what their great grandfather consumed is well to look through those papers,” said Steve.<\/p>\n

“It would be nice to think that rural pubs like this one would survive but I think this one would be difficult to keep going looking back at the figures.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I think most people probably would want to shut the door on whatever happened on their stag do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-349915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}