The Swansea pubs and restaurants that now have outdoor areas to welcome back customers
Enterprising businesses have been making the best of the space available to them
The Railway Inn in Killay, Swansea, which has installed outside seating since the pandemic began (Image: Railway Inn)
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WE HAVE, in recent weeks, announced details of almost 3,000 organisations being offered grants and loans to help the culture/heritage sector reopen and recover from Covid. As a member of the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee, I have taken a very close interest in the Culture Recovery Fund (worth some £1.57 billion of public money) but as our constituency MP, I’ve watched it like a hawk. Last year our area did well from the fund and I know many of our most valued institutions received lifeline financial support. It was well covered at the time in this newspaper of course.
BOSSES at two pubs say they were nearly drunk dry in their first week of opening after coronavirus restrictions eased. Pubs in England were able to re-open last Monday with customers having to sit in beer gardens in groups of up to six people. By yesterday The Entwistle Hotel in Entwistle Street, Darwen, had just a few pints in the lines and mostly bottles left after a hugely successful opening week. Landlord Craig Rustidge said: “It’s been brilliant and crazy. I’ve never known anything like this. I’ve never witnessed anything like this past week. “You would really think we were going into another lockdown and nobody was ever going to get another pint.”
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Burnham-On-Sea and Highbridge shops and businesses experienced a ‘busy, hectic’ re-opening day on Monday (April 12th) as lockdown restrictions eased and shoppers returned.
Burnham town centre saw queues of shoppers outside several shops during the morning as they opened for the first time since early January.
Burnham-On-Sea.com spoke to shoppers and shop owners to get their feedback on the long-awaited re-opening day.
Helen Adams at Crusty Cob bakery in Burnham High Street told Burnham-On-Sea.com: “It was a busy day – it was so nice to see the town centre bustling with shoppers again. Everyone seemed to be a lot happier and the atmosphere was really positive.”