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Pub's flower power

DURSLEY pub The Old Spot has won a prestigious flower display competition for the fourth time in five years.

The Old Spot squeaked past rivals the Railway Inn, Cam, to win the Dursley and Cam Society floral displays competition for the second year running.

Landlady Ellie Sainty praised the hard work of her husband Ric, who kept the Old Spot's hanging baskets and garden in winning form.

"Ric has always been very keen on gardening and it is nice to be recognised for something we would have done anyway."

Also celebrating this week was Peter Broomhall, proprietor of the J Broomhall butcher's shop in Parsonage Street, who came first in the large displays category - without even knowing he had entered. "I did not know anything at all until gentleman came in to say I had won!" he said.

Mr Broomhall thanked his wife Cllr Joyce Broomhall for organising the shop's eyecatching 16ft flower trough.

By sheer coincidence Cllr Broomhall also had a hand in the runner-up in the same category - Dursley Town Council's flower tubs. Inches fabric shop, Parsonage Street, was judged the best small display, with Bunters Cafe second. Commended were RA Lister, Cam Co-op grounds and Hewitts newsagents.

CAPTION: Ellie Sainty, landlady of the Old Spot in Dursley with her trophy after winning the Dursley and Cam Society annual hanging basket competition

Reproduced courtesy of Gazette - June 1998.