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Details of pub: Smiths Hotel, Aberystwyth

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Address/Location: 24 Great Darkgate Street
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Opened: c.      
Closed: NOT KNOWN       Type: Hotel
Notes: Smith's Hotel, Anon, 24 Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, established 1810, (Gossiping Guide to Wales, p. adverts section, p. 6, (1898), advert)

1871 advert
"WHOLESALE & RETAIL Wine and Spirit Establishment, ALE AND PORTER STORES. No 24, GREAT DARK-GATE STREET, ABERYSTWYTH." AO 17 June 1871

1893
Bunting strung from the windows for Royal wedding

1895
Death of long-time resident. Montgomery County Times 23 Feb 1895

1900
Jan: fails to sell - see att
April: To let, apply Morgans Wine Merchants.

1903
"To Let, with possession, At valuation only, the well-known Hotel-Public, situate in Great Darkgate-street, and known as Hotel 24. or Smith's Hotel; doing a profitable trade, being centrally situate and immediately opposite General Post-office; licence safe.-Apply C. Taylor, Proprietor, Hotel 24. Aberystwyth." Weekly Mail 21/02/1903

Additional information

Newspaper:

Advert for Excelsior Whisky, available locally

Date: 1894

Newspaper:

Advert for Smith's Hotel

Date: 1888

Newspaper:

Smith's Hotel not sold

Date: 1900

Newspaper:

Smith's Hotel for Sale

Date: 1900