Only two public houses remain in the village, there used to be 5.
The ones I could trace were-
Public Houses
Bedlinog Inn Telephone 01443 710222
Railway Inn, Telephone 01443 710439
Station Hotel closed
Fox and Hounds closed
New Inn , the square,closed
The oldest pub and newly refurbished Bedlinog Inn
The Railway pub, top of Bedlinog
An old beer check from the Robert Amos collection that was valid for use at the old New Inn Bedlinog
Station Hotel closed as a public house but is being used as a business premises
Public Houses old and new
If anyone knows of any that I have missed please let us know.
Colliers Arms now called the Rowan Tree
Crown Inn Nelson closed
Dynevor Arms
Farmers Arms closed
General Picton closed (now Bob’s fruit and Vegetable shop)
Greyhound Hotel, Llanfabon Inn, Nelson
Holly Bush
Nelson Inn
Railway Inn Llanfabon
Royal Oak
Tyler’s Hotel
Wellington Hotel (now Wellington stores)
The Former General Picton Inn
The Railway Inn, Llanfabon, Nelson
The Tylers
The old Colliers now called the Rowan Tree
The Rowan Tree from another direction
The Hollybush
The Royal Oak
The Royal Oak from anaother angle
There is only one public house in Edwardsville, The Great Western Hotel. It is sited on the former entrance to the Quakers Yard railway station.
There have been at least five public houses in Quakers Yard, The Carpenter Arms, near Fiddlers Elbow, The White Hart, The Victoria Inn are no longer in business but the village still has two public houses,the Quakers Yard Inn and the Glantaf Inn.
Glantaff Inn (above)
Quakers Yard Inn (Above)
Victoria Inn (above) no longer a public house
The Royal Hotel
There was a problem when plans were first submitted for a new Hotel for Treharris.
October 4, 1890, Provisional licence for proposed Hotel at Treharris Refused
During September 1890, The Treharris total abstinence society had met to seek ways to oppose the licence of a new Hotel at Pantanas, to be named the Royal Hotel. They were getting a petition drawn up and were seeking assistance from Navigation Colliery Company.
Charles Kensole of Aberdare, applied for a provisional licence for a new hotel to be built on the Pantanas estate for Mr D Jones of the George Brewery, Aberdare.
Present at the meeting were
Mr Rhys on behalf of Mr Rhys Jones and 520 inhabitants
Mr Mackintosh, Cardiff, Commercial Hotel Treharris
Mr J Plews, Inhabitants, A. P. James Navigation Colliery Company.
Mr Mathews, Navigation Hotel.
The hotel is planned to be sited adjacent to the new passenger station, cost approximately £2,500. Architect Mr Roderick.
The argument is that there are 613 houses at Treharris with another 26 in course of erection, with 6 persons per house average Population is 3,678.
Sergeant Cook of the police force believed that a new hotel would be an advantage, it would reduce the crowded state of the other public houses, especially on a Friday and Saturday night, it would also render proper surveillance over them.
The licence was refused
A couple of years later a new application was successful, it was argued that there was not enough Hotel accommodation available for travelors to the Town...the new building would not cost in the region of £3,200.
Work then commenced on the new building and In the Kelly’s Directory for 1895, it shows a record of a Mr Wyndham Williams, landlord of the Royal Hotel, Pantannas.
Work then commenced on the new building and In the Kelly’s Directory for 1895 shows a record of a Mr Wyndham Williams, landlord of the Royal Hotel, Pantannas.
Work then commenced on the new building and In the Kelly’s Directory for 1895 shows a record of a Mr Wyndham Williams, landlord of the Royal Hotel, Pantannas.
A beer check with Wyndham Williams name on, was once valid at the Royal Hotel (check is part of the R Amos collection)
Above we see a playgroung on the old Treharris Railway station infront of the Royal hotel
Navigation Hotel
The Navigation Hotel is the public house that everyone associates with the town, it is on the main square and was opened in 1878.
The Perrott Inn, a very old pub that is now in a very poor way since its closure a few years back.
The name refers to an ancient animal pound in the direction of the river Caiach. The river formed part of a boundary within the lordship of Senghenydd in Norman times. The current landlords are Nigel and Becky O’ Connor (1999- present) Other landlords have included Terry Davies(1995) Dennis and Molly Barwood (1975) and Mr W Bennett (1935).
I have traced the pub back to 1861 census, it is not on the 1851 census.
Bontnewydd Hotel
Here is a Beer check worth 6d for use at The Bontnewydd Hotel. The landlord at the time was a Mister Lewis
I have traced the Bontnewydd Hotel to the 1901 census,the landlord then was a Mister Lewis Lewis aged 34 and his wife Mary (35). They had two children William aged 12 and Gwen aged 10, the family originated from Gelligaer. They employed two servants at this time, Mary Bray aged 15, house domestic and Sarah Morgan aged 19, Cook and domestic servant.
The Chapman family were one of the first land lords. It has seen a few changes over the years and the first floor was made into a function room in the 1980’s at the same time the bar was knocked through to the back lounge and changed into a lounge, another back room became the new bar. It has struggled recently but has kept open and the current tenants are Michael Jones and family from the High Street