Wetherspoon bosses confirm The Black Boy pub in Mid Wales will KEEP its 17th-century name

Wetherspoon bosses have confirmed The Black Boy pub in Wales will keep its name – despite activists saying it has ‘racist connotations’. The Black Boy in Newtown, Powys, dates back to the 17th century and was named after chimney sweeps who would emerge from local properties covered in soot. Pub regulars have also claimed the name came … Read more

Presenter Kevin McCloud clashes with couple who convert 17th-century flour mill on Grand Designs

Presenter Kevin McCloud clashed with a couple who transformed a derelict 17th century flour mill into a three-bed home for £300,000 on Grand Designs – as they admitted to not giving a ‘t***’ about what outsiders think.  Leigh and Richard, who until recently lived in Derbyshire, where they ran a small plant nursery and Richard was … Read more

Barbados holiday: The delights of a 17th-century ancestral home that’s now a luxurious place to stay

Get set to be wooed by this Bajan beauty: The delights of a 17th-century ancestral home that’s now a luxurious (and inexpensive) place to stay Tom Mangold’s wife, Kathryn, has a familial connection with Barbados that goes back 400 years Her ancestor Sir John Colleton, a Royalist who fled Cromwell, lived on the Caribbean Island … Read more