Pembrokeshire artist Lloyd the Graffiti has been putting his finishing touches to another masterpiece - this time paying homage to one of Wales' most famous sons - poet Dylan Thomas - at the Coach and Horses Tavern - Tenby’s oldest pub, where as legend would have it, the prodigious boozer visited and became so drunk that he left behind his manuscript of Under Milk Wood on a bar stool! The pub located on Tenby’s cobbled Upper Frog Street was visited by Thomas, in 1953 when Mr. Ceslie Stock was the landlord. The poet called at the pub after giving a reading to the local art club an excerpt from his recently completed play for voices ‘Under Milk Wood’ - and the story goes that Thomas became so inebriated that when he finally staggered out of the inn, he left his only copy of the play’s manuscript on a seat in the bar! While Thomas visited Tenby, his enduring connection to the town was through his friendship with painter Augustus John, who he was close to throughout his life.
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