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Details of pub: Black Lion Inn, Llanrhystud

Other names:
Address/Location: SY23 5DG
OS Grid Ref: SN5386369725
Opened: c.      
Closed: open 2018       Type: Pub
Summary: According to Slater's Directory, 1868, there were two Black Lions in Llanrhystud (parish).

Notes: 1836
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 20887, 14.9.1836
1837
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 20887, 30.8.1837
1838
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 20887, 19.9.1838
1839
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 20887, 25.9.1839
1840
no Petty Sessions list
1841
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 20887, 15.9.1841, 29.9.1841
1842
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13867, 31.8.1842, p. 61
1843
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13867, 30.8.1843, p. 120
1844
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13867, 28.8.1844, p. 181
1845
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13868, 27.8.1845, p. 244
1846
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13868, 26.8.1846, p. 292
1847
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13868, 8.9.1847, p. 337
1848
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13868, 23.8.1848, p. 368
1849
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13868, 22.8.1849, p. 405
1850
licensee: Lewis, Lewis
Petty Sessions, Aberaeron, NLW 13868, 21.8.1850, p. 441

1868
Licensee: David Lewis
Slater’s Directory, 1868
1875
licensee: David Lewis (Worrall’s Directory, 1875)
1893-1924
Owner, 1893-1924, John Williams, Bristol; London (from 1898)
Licensee 1898: Ann Lewis
Licensee from 2.3.1894: John Williams of the Ty'n Llidiart Arms, Llanbadarn
Licensee in 1907: Mrs Williams
Licensee from 7.8.1907: Maria Mary Berrow
Licensee from 6.11.1908 Morgan Jenkins
Licensee from 1.4.1932 Thomas Leonard Price
Licensee from 1.5.1936: Thomas Victor Morgan
Licensee from 7.10.1938: Evan John George
Licensee from 21.10.1947: Jonathan Severs
Licensee from 2.5.1952: James Davies
Licensee from ? Catherine Ann Jenkins
Register of Licences, Ilar Hundred, 1889-1924 with additions to 1952, Ceredigion Archives, TPS/LLI/1/7

1905
Petty Sessions: Llanilar; number on list: 7; name of premises: Black Lion Inn; Parish / Place: Llanrhystud; Licensee: Williams, John; owner or tenant : tenant; registered owner : J G Williams, London; free or tied: Free; tied to: [blank]; type of licence: full; on or off licence: on; number of licenced days per week: 7. (1905 list)

Additional information

Map:

Llanrhystud, 25 inch, 1905

Date:

Photograph:

Black Lion, Llanrhystud

Date: 1900 (approx)

Photograph:

Black Lion, Llanrhystud

Date: 1900 (approx)

Photograph:

Black Lion, Llanrhystud

Date: 1900 (approx)

Photograph:

Black Lion, Llanrhystud

Date: 1900 (approx)

Newspaper:

Drunken behaviour at the Black Lion

Date: 1877

Newspaper:

Preaching in the pubs

Date: 1823 (before)

Postcard:

Photo of the Black Lion c late 1960s?

Date: 1970 (approx)

Postcard:

Black Lion, Llanrhystud, c.1950?

Date: 1950 (after)