Each player stands about 8ft (2.4m) away from the pub bench, which has a hole and a draw underneath to hold the pennies.<\/p>\n
Players can throw more than one penny at a time and the first to sink all of them during the round is the winner.<\/p>\n
The coins range from the early Victorian era right up to the decimalisation of the currency in February 1971, Foster said.<\/p>\n
Where the name of the game originates from is not known, however, Foster said there were “lots of theories but no absolute proof”.<\/p>\n
Glenn Thomas, who has lived in Stretton for five years, said the small village had a population of around 150 people.<\/p>\n
When the pub, then called The Jackson Stops, closed in January 2025, villagers continued playing the game in church to try to keep the tradition alive.<\/p>\n
Thomas said: “The pub, when it shut down, it shut down very unexpectedly.<\/p>\n
“In the months that followed we really felt the loss, it felt like the soul had gone out of the village.<\/p>\n
“People weren’t spending as much time with each other. It was very much the heart of the village.<\/p>\n
“Nurdles was just one of those special traditions almost unique to our village.<\/p>\n
“We did try to keep it going, Richard and others made a separate nurdles bench, but it wasn’t the same.<\/p>\n
“It was the wrong ambience and atmosphere.<\/p>\n
“With the pub being shut we could just see that nurdles as a tradition was going to die out. It was heart-breaking.<\/p>\n
“It was one of the big motivations to get the pub open again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each player stands about 8ft (2.4m) away from the pub bench, which has a hole and a draw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-753575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753575","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=753575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}