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Pubs & Inns
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Number of pages: 129 Contents: Early Inns Falcon Inn & Falcon House Mansel Arms Sea Side Cambrian Bucket & Spade (Cornish Arms) Seaside Hotel (Three Mariners) KK Club (Hope & Anchor) Thomas Street Masons Arms Thomas Arms Morfa Biddulph Arms Golfers Inn (Bridge-end Inn & The Ramping) Coedcae Road The Strip Mill New Dock Northumberland (Stanley Inn) Whitstable Inn Station Road Barnums (Whitehall Vaults) The Rolling Mill The Vine Marshfield Tap (Station Hotel & Railway Station Hotel) Apple Tree (Foresters) Oddfellows Melbourne Hotel Railway Tavern (Railway Hotel/Inn) Wern Bull Inn Vale of Neath Arms Stepney Street Cambrian Inn (Wine Vaults) Park Street Royal Exchange Hotel Ty Melin (Circles) Military & Naval Links The Duke of Wellington The Waterloo Felinfoel Diplomat Hotel (Allt y Gof & Ael y Bryn) Furnace Stradey Arms Pwll Colliers Arms Dafen Breweries Tyisha William Bythway’s Brewery Richard Thomas & Company Working Men’s Institute Cottage Garage Trade Directory Extracts – 1811, 1830, 1835, 1844 Taverns Listed by Location – 1844 Innkeepers from Chalinder’s Trade Directory 1872 Inns and Public Houses in 1897 Extract Taverns, Inns, Hostelries & Public Houses Dafen T he area around the Halfway was originally part of the vast Llanelli Estate owned by the powerful and influential Vaughan Family. Following the Deed of Partition when Jemimah Vaughan’s ¼ share was divided between her three daughters, the 1/12th share belonging to Dorothy Vaughan passed through a number of named inheritors until it came into the possession of William and Lucinda Hayton. In 1809 Richard Pemberton, a Speculator who came to Llanelli hoping to make a fortune, acquired the 1/12th share.The original house at Halfway was situated halfway between the tollgate at Capel Isaf and the tollgate at Pemberton. This gave rise to the name of the house and the surrounding area. In 1830 the Pembertons leased Halfway House to Margaret Thomas for a period of three lives at an annual rent of £2 2s 0d. Another lease of 1845 does not make it clear whether Halfway House was an inn at this time, but it is likely that an inn was established around this date. The 1841 UK Census gives the occupants of Halfway as: William Thomas; Margaret Thomas; Elizabeth Thomas; David Thomas; William Thomas; Mary Ann Thomas; Margaret Thomas; Ann Thomas; John Thomas and John Evan. The 1851 Census indicates the same landlord. The occupants were: Margaret Thomas; Ann Thomas; John Thomas; Margaret Thomas; Ann Morris, and two lodgers, namely Mary Samuel and Mary Morris. The two lodgers were tinplate workers’ wives residing at the Inn until they could find local accommodation. Their husbands were most likely employed by the newly established Dafen Tinplate Works that had opened in 1846. They were probably hoping to be given tenancy of one of the domestic houses that were being built by the proprietors for their workers. It is known that the Halfway was used as a coaching inn and a local historian describes in Welsh, how he and his family moved from their home in Monmouthshire to Dafen in 1852. They travelled on the Great Western Railway from Newport to the terminus at Swansea and then by stagecoach to the white lime-washed thatched roofed Halfway Inn, before travelling on to Dafen.
Halfway Hotel
Beaufort Arms, 1935
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