Kym-Louise was a glass collector...but now she runs her favourite pub
Published Date:
27 November 2008
By Brian Coates
TWENTY-two-year-old Kym-Louise Gavaghan couldn't bear to see her favourite pub close – so she took it over.
The Weaver's Arms, Blind Lane, Todmorden, was being shut by administrators last Friday when she stepped in at the 11th hour.
Kym-Louise started in the pub trade as a 16-year-old collecting glasses at the Weaver's and for the last five weeks had been managing it.
But administrators Begbies Traynor, which had been running the pub since July, announced last week it was shutting it along with the town's Queen Hotel and Rope and Anchor.
Kym-Louise and her business partner Martin Mensforth hastily arranged a three-month tenancy with the bank and she was back in business again within hours as licensee.
"I was ready for leaving and ended up having the quickest closing and opening party on the same day," she said.
"This is not like any other pub. You walk in and it feels like home."
The administrators had been running the three pubs after the collapse of Emery Holdings and interest has also been shown in reopening the Rope and Anchor.
Last month the town's Bramsch Bar, which was also being run by the administrators, shut.
The full article contains 215 words and appears in Evening Courier newspaper.
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Last Updated:
27 November 2008 9:12 AM
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Source:
Evening Courier
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Location:
Halifax
