Nottingham Post published Former hotel converted into flats will ensure artist's name lives...

Budding artist John Townsend and his girlfriend made a few coppers go a long way. The courting couple were so poor in the 1950s that when they went for a drink at their local, they had a half of beer between them."It's true, we'd share a half-pint with a couple of straws," recalled Tina Townsend as, 60 years on, she surveyed the former Quorn Hotel in Sherwood.She was at the former hostelry in Hucknall Road for the dedication of the building. The newly-converted Quorn is now Townsend...