Members of Llanover Village Hall Social Club are celebrating victory in a bi-annual competition with the Goose and Cuckoo for a rusty nail.

For a decade or more teams from both the club and Goose and Cuckoo have battled it out playing a series of traditional pub games against each other for the unusual prize.

The Upper Llanover watering hole hosted this summer’s event. Events included: cribbage, dominos, darts, skittles and Jenga.

The result went down to the wire with Llanover Village Hall taking the rusty nail by a point after winning the final games of darts.

“We are gutted to have lost the rusty nail especially by just one point,” said Goose and Cuckoo landlady Sue Finch.

“The pub was packed. It was a wonderful atmosphere and congratulations to Llanover Village Hall Social Club on a hard- earned victory.

“They had better hold it lightly though because we’ll be doing our best to win it back at the Hall in the winter!”

The Goose Cuckoo was the only pub in Llanover to survive the closure of pubs in the area by the Temperance Movement purge of pubs championed by Lady Llanover in the late 19th century (as it is located just outside her estate).

It has won numerous Good Beer Guide awards (CAMRA) over the past few years and is one of the oldest rural pubs in Wales.

The pub, which was recently visited by Timothy West Prunella Scales as part of their Great Canal Journeys TV series, sits close to the Mon Brecon Canal and alongside an old track used by workers from Blaenavon and Cwmavon who used to work at nearby lime kilns and charcoal burning sites.