Dad builds amazing garden pub - with hot tub - using cancelled £20k holiday money and help from YouTube

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Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox A dad used the money he saved from going on holiday in the pandemic to create a pub in his garden, fitted out with a hot tub.

Billy Fletcher, 56, says he spent £19,500 on the project after being inspired by the Facebook group Garden Sheds, Pubs & Nightclubs UK, while watching YouTube tutorials to help with technical skills, the Mirror reports.

And he has named the bar, in his garden in Blyth, Northumberland, Fletcher's Bar. He began work on the project in August 2020 while recovering from a knee operation.

The construction work got underway in November. By then, he'd returned to his day job as production manager for Nestle. The pub build saw