Date: 17th April 2010
Over 18 years only
Time: 00:00 - 06:00

Venue Details
King Street
Bristol, BS1

 

 

 

 

 

Llandoger Trow

As seen on Most Haunted, The Llandoger Trow is a historic public house in Bristol.

Come and join Weird Investigations for a study of the Llandoger Trow of Bristol that is reputed to be haunted by a child who wears leg braces - referred to as Pierre. He apparently died in the pub many years ago. According to Guy Lyon Playfair in The Haunted Pub Guide, many apparitions have been reported here and one recent story of strange activity includes a mention of two figures being caught on the pubs CCTV cameras, one sat in the Jacobean room, the other in the bar. Staff monitoring the cameras thought some customers may have remained after hours and went to move them on, but they had vanished.

Join us as we try to get to the bottom of what happens after closing time at this historic building. Your investigators for the evening will talk you through the pros and cons of the different methods used by modern paranormal investigators.

Dating from 1664, the building is stepped in a mysterious and interesting history. A trow was a flat-bottomed barge, and Llandogo is a village some 20 miles north of Bristol, across the Bristol Channel and upstream on the River Wye in South Wales, where trows were once built. Trows historically sailed to trade in Bristol.

The pub was partially destroyed by a bomb in World War II but three of the original five projecting gables remain. It is a grade II* listed building.

Tradition has it that Daniel Defoe met Alexander Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe) here, and it was Robert Louis Stevenson’s inspiration for the Admiral Benbow in Treasure Island.
In Victorian times the pub was associated with the Theatre Royal, which is across the road, and was visited by many performers and musicians including Henry Irving.

There are reputed to be underground passages for the use of smugglers. In 1962 it became a Berni Inn, but now belongs to Whitbread and trades as a Brewers Fayre. Another famous Bristol pub, The Old Duke, is situated opposite the Llandoger Trow.