{"id":697667,"date":"2026-07-18T01:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/697667\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T01:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:56:18","slug":"ludlow-castle-concerts-bringing-benefits-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/697667\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludlow Castle concerts bringing benefits to town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visitors to the town appear to have been impressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dan Robinson from Toronto in Canada was visiting with his wife and two friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just got here yesterday, but it&#8217;s just a great little town. Went to the Blue Boar yesterday and had dinner and we just love it here. It&#8217;s so relaxing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His friend Paul Robinson said they were thinking of buying property in Ludlow and thought the local people were &#8220;fabulous&#8221; adding concerts like the ones at the castle offered more &#8220;for the community&#8221; than big arena events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Linda Spyby from Wrexham described the castle venue as &#8220;magical&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was enjoying her first visit to the town and said: &#8220;I&#8217;m just starting to have a look around the shops and the cafes and they&#8217;re all independent rather than these big chains and it&#8217;s a real friendly atmosphere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nick Wingett, who came from Yateley in Hampshire, said he had never been to Ludlow before, but was impressed by the friendliness the locals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said said a market trader had handed out free water to people outside the castle gates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought that was wonderful, he didn&#8217;t have to do that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visitors to the town appear to have been impressed. Dan Robinson from Toronto in Canada was visiting with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-697667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697667","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=697667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}