Bob Coutts, owner of the Bull Hotel, talks about the history of the hotel in this short film as part of a project called Then & Now...
View film Transcript: Hi, I'm Bob Coutts and I'm the owner of the Bull Hotel which is situated in the heart of Denbigh. The picture you see in front of you was taken in the late 1890s, we think. Of course the Bull dates back to 1580 - 1590. Anyway, back to the picture. What you can see there is the hotel's carriage which used to ferry customers up from the railway station to the hotel. Interesting feature there is that the centre shaft of the carriage still hangs in the lounge bar of the hotel to this day along with a pair of swingle trees - swingle trees attach the horses to the centre shaft, in case you are wondering. I have no idea who the people are featured although we think the lady in the doorway on the left hand side was the housekeeper of the hotel at the time. As you can see from the photograph it was Lloyd's Bull Hotel, a family and commercial establishment. In fact, the Lloyds family had it for many, many years until it was taken over by the Trust House Forte group in the early part of the 20th Century. Back to the photograph and you will see on the left hand side a sign which says fire station. Absolutely nothing to do with the Bull Hotel at all at the time but what used to happen was that they parked the steam-driven appliance under that archway and had a restroom above from which they jumped down on to the waggon and off they went in search of the fire. The horses were stabled in the stable block to the rear of the hotel. There have been one or two changes to the hotel over the years but if you look around you'll see some of the original features are still in place.
Bob Coutts, owner of the Bull Hotel, talks about the history of the hotel in this short film as part of a project called 
Hi, I'm Bob Coutts and I'm the owner of the Bull Hotel which is situated in the heart of Denbigh. The picture you see in front of you was taken in the late 1890s, we think. Of course the Bull dates back to 1580 - 1590. Anyway, back to the picture. What you can see there is the hotel's carriage which used to ferry customers up from the railway station to the hotel. Interesting feature there is that the centre shaft of the carriage still hangs in the lounge bar of the hotel to this day along with a pair of swingle trees - swingle trees attach the horses to the centre shaft, in case you are wondering. I have no idea who the people are featured although we think the lady in the doorway on the left hand side was the housekeeper of the hotel at the time. As you can see from the photograph it was Lloyd's Bull Hotel, a family and commercial establishment. In fact, the Lloyds family had it for many, many years until it was taken over by the Trust House Forte group in the early part of the 20th Century. Back to the photograph and you will see on the left hand side a sign which says fire station. Absolutely nothing to do with the Bull Hotel at all at the time but what used to happen was that they parked the steam-driven appliance under that archway and had a restroom above from which they jumped down on to the waggon and off they went in search of the fire. The horses were stabled in the stable block to the rear of the hotel. There have been one or two changes to the hotel over the years but if you look around you'll see some of the original features are still in place. 
