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Welcome Rob. I can’t imagine what it’s like to look after 200 hives!
 
Remember drinking (and filming) in the Nag's head many years ago, probably about 1984 when it was a proper pub with beer served from a jug by old Gwyn . And being proudly shown the giant rat (feral coypu) that his father had killed in his garden by the river and was now stuffed and in a glass case on the windowsill.
 
Remember drinking (and filming) in the Nag's head many years ago, probably about 1984 when it was a proper pub with beer served from a jug by old Gwyn . And being proudly shown the giant rat (feral coypu) that his father had killed in his garden by the river and was now stuffed and in a glass case on the windowsill.

All true JBM. It was later identified as a 'myocastor coypus' which is a resident of S. America and probably arrived on one of the last ships visiting Port Cardigan (further downstream). It went missing from the Nags for a short time but the recent new owners of the establishment tracked it down and now it takes pride of place on the bar. I first started frequenting the Nags back in '67 when I was an apprentice telephone engineer with the GPO as it was then. Many happy times were spent there during the late '60s/70s.
Nag's head Coypu.jpg
 
All true JBM. It was later identified as a 'myocastor coypus' which is a resident of S. America and probably arrived on one of the last ships visiting Port Cardigan
There were plenty of Coypus in the UK (well, East Anglia anyway) they escaped from fur farms in the 1920's and reached plague levels, most were eradicated by the 1970's with the eradication programme being shut down when the last one was killed in a trap in 1982
 

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