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Enjoy a delicious Sunday Lunch at The Hours
Nicola Bickerton11 April 2023kate mosse
Sunday Lunch at The Hours - Starting February 2023
Sunday Lunch at The Hours - Starting February 2023

From February 2023 we will be serving Sunday Lunch 12-3pm. Booking is recommended.

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The Hours10 January 2023The Hours Cafe & Bookshopsunday lunch, roast dinner, food, homecooked, brecon, brecon beaconsComment
We have moved to Brecon Cathedral Close...
We have moved to Brecon Cathedral Close...
Nicola Bickerton22 May 2022The Hours at Brecon Cathedral
Gift of the Week! 'Books Not Bombs'
Gift of the Week! 'Books Not Bombs'

A message we support wholeheartedly! A good quality tote bag for yourself or as a gift. Carry this around with you and share the message…

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GiftsNicola Bickerton22 February 2022The Hours Cafe & Bookshopnot war, books, not bombs, peace, tote bags
Gift of the Week! Top Trumps…
Gift of the Week! Top Trumps…

Following the launch of our online shop, this is the first of our ‘Gift of the Week’ slots where we introduce you to some quirky and cool little gifts in our wonky green shop…

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GiftsNicola Bickerton4 May 2021trump cards, old masters, games, puzzles, fun, classic
'The Hours' Gift Vouchers...
'The Hours' Gift Vouchers...

‘The Hours’ Gift Vouchers…

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Anne Tregoning2 December 2020
Firebreak Closure...
Firebreak Closure...

Bookshop & Cafe re-opening plans for June/July 2020

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Anne Tregoning28 October 2020
Cafe Open for Takeaway with Outdoor Seating!
Cafe Open for Takeaway with Outdoor Seating!

Cafe open for takeaway with outside seating…

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Reopening, Covid 19, New start, Books, Gifts, Fresh FoodNicola Bickerton25 July 2020safe, takeaway, cafe, food, outdoor seating, dogs welcome, fresh food, local
Our little bookshop is open again!!
Our little bookshop is open again!!

Bookshop & Cafe re-opening plans for July/Aug 2020

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Reopening, Covid 19, New start, Books, GiftsNicola Bickerton14 July 2020new stock, books, tote bags, mugs, cards, literary gifts, safe
A little update…
A little update…

Bookshop & Cafe re-opening plans for June/July 2020

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Anne Tregoning24 June 2020
A special message to all our lovely customers, friends & followers...
A special message to all our lovely customers, friends & followers...

We intend to remain open here at the wonky green shop as long as we possibly can given the escalating Public Health situation.

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Anne Tregoning19 March 2020
Best Small Shops 2019 Finalist!
Best Small Shops 2019 Finalist!

We're thrilled to share with you the news that we are in the running to be named 'Best Small Shop in the UK'...!

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Nicola Bickerton18 October 2019Best Small Shop Finalist 2019
Our Beautiful Book Posters are back! *swoon*
Our Beautiful Book Posters are back! *swoon*

These gorgeous ‘creme de la creme’ classic book posters are now back in stock. Wouldn't they look lovely on your walls this Summer?

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Nicola Bickerton28 June 2019book covers, posters, literary gifts, bookshop, wales, brecon
Hiraeth - creating a sense of belonging and connectedness
Hiraeth - creating a sense of belonging and connectedness

One of our core aims when we opened The Hours back in 2010 was to create a warm, welcoming and inclusive meeting place…

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Nicola Bickerton13 June 2019
Welcome to our new website
Welcome to our new website

We hope you like it. There’s still more to do, including getting all our upcoming events and exhibitions listed. Also watch this space for an online shop coming soon…

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Nicola Bickerton13 June 2019
Love is in the air!
Love is in the air!

Are you all ready for Valentine’s Day? Worry not, we have gifts galore…

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Nicola Bickerton10 February 2019Comment
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Cafe & Bookshop

Opening hours

Wed 10am - 4pm

Thur 10am - 4pm

Fri 10am - 4pm

Sat 10am - 4pm

Sun 10pm - 3.00pm

Closed - Monday/Tuesday

Please drop us an email/facebook/instagram message for bookings/orders/questions.

Thanks and take care xx

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As one amazing weekend of music in beautiful Brecon recedes over the lush green hills (@breconchoirfestival), another emerges on the horizon...

Join us in just two weeks for our #BreconJazzFestival2025 revelry 'Brecon Jazz On The Green'.

Superb FRE
They are not even looking the other way; they are simply watching it happen with a casual audaciousness that is beyond incredulous. They, and we, are all culpable. Don't play the powerless spectator @keirstarmer , act now, act today. Shame on you, sh
'A slow singer, but loading each phrase
With history's overtones, love, joy
And grief learned by his dark tribe
In other orchards and passed on
Instinctively as they are now...'

A Blackbird Singing
RS Thomas
Beyond those seagrass hills, the words of RS Thomas - Poet, Priest, Cardiffian, grumpy, glorious, sensual soul - are being celebrated in a weekend of song at our fourth #BreconChoirFestival.

Join us at beautiful @breconcathedral in the heart of the
I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the
pearl of great price, the one field that had
treasure in it. I realise now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. L
A Summer of music, marvelling and mooching awaits you here at The Hours at @breconcathedral. Join us for @breconchoirfestival next weekend and hot on it's song-filled tail, Brecon Jazz on the Green - a whole weekend of free music from some of the mos
Iced Aber Valley apple Juice and a delicious Potager salad before relaxing in the cool of beautiful @breconcathedral and listening to the brilliant #GwentChamberOrchestra at 1pm? 

Perfick 🍏🌼🎶
'I caught this morning morning's minion, king-

  dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding

  Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding

High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling&n

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The Hours Cafe & Bookshop
Cathedral Close, Brecon Cathedral,
Powys
LD3 9DP

07726375274
hello@thehoursbrecon.co.uk

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