Care home residents say cheers to their own on-site pub

* The sort of cosy pub The Old Vicarage care home aims to create in its garden.

* Residents and staff have fun on the beach they created in the garden,

Cheery residents and staff at the Old Vicarage Care Home in Llangollen are looking for items that will help them create their own lockdown pub. 

Owner Bethan Mascarenhas said: “We’ve been shielding now for months which means we can’t get to the pub and as this situation could go on for some time we decided to bring the pub to us. 

“We’re planning to build our very own hostelry in the garden of the home which residents can visit to have a tipple and some nibbles. 

“We would also put on events like pub quizzes and it would mean families would be able to visit us safely in a more comfortable and fun environment.

“We’d be really grateful for any donations of items some as a pub bar, tables and chairs, beer pumps or spirits optics. 

“Hopefully, someone might know of a pub or club that wants to get rid of stuff. Any help would be massively appreciated.”

Bethan added: “We’ve had a few suggestions for what we could call our pub.

“As we’re sometimes known just as the Old Vic maybe it could be named after the  Queen Vic in Eastenders.

“People have already been doing impressions of Barbara Windsor with her famous ‘get outta my pub!’ line.

“Someone also suggested that Barbara could be the patron of the pub. Her, or maybe a famous actor would be great, we thought.

“We’ve had quite a bit of support for the idea so far but if anyone would like to get in touch with an offer of help could they please Facebook message direct to our Old Vicarage page as we can’t see the comments after it’s been shared.”

Bethan has introduced quite a number of novel ideas to help stave off boredom for residents during the long lockdown.

These have included creating a beach complete with “boats” in the garden and regular online quizzes.