LAST week we visited The Castle Inn, Caldicot, and received the following reply: Rosemary Jones, Gwernesney, Usk: “I recognise the pictures in this week’s Now and Then as being of the Castle Inn, Caldicot.
“I have been there in the past and had nice meals with family and friends. It is good to know that The Castle Inn is still trading with the situation as it is these days with so many public houses closing.”
● “The Castle Inn c.1950 – almost certainly Caldicot’s oldest public house.
Today it’s a ‘free house’ although for a considerable time it was a ‘Hancock’s’ pub.
“Although extended to the back, the frontage has changed little and it is a pleasant reminder of ‘old Caldicot’ forming part of an attractive group of properties around the ancient church and castle.
“For many years if you had walked into the Castle Inn at Caldicot, standing behind the bar would almost certainly have been Mrs Dodd, landlady for over sixty years, who died only a short time after retiring at the great age of 88 in the 1960s.”
Last week’s picture taken from Caldicot and the Villages of the Moor in old Photographs with kind permission of author, Richard D Jones.
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