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Details of pub: Rhydypennau Inn, Penygarn
Other names: Three Horse Shoe Inn
Address/Location: SY24 5AA
OS Grid Ref: SN6299385866
Opened: c.
Closed: open 2018 Type: Pub
Summary: Temporarily closed March 2018. Re-opened August 2018. |August 2019: Lease available sign posted again.
Notes: 1848
"A little further on not many months ago the Three Horse Shoe, the celebrated March ale House, was "broke open and robbed of several pounds in gold and silver, while the family was attending divine service; and last Tuesday several articles of wearing apparel, belonging to the Three Horse Shoe, were stolen from a hedge where they had been put out to dry. " Welshman 21 July 1848
1868
Licensee: Morgan, Richard
Slater’s Directory, 1868
1875
licensee: Richd. Morgan (Worrall’s Directory, 1875) - location Cynnullmawr
c.1910?
Photograph of the Three Horse Shoes Inn, Rhydypennau with some figures identified.
Ceredigion Archives ADX/415 History of Bow Street Volume 2, p. 235
Photograph and notes on the Revd. Thomas Morgan, son of Richard and Kate Morgan of The Three Horse Shoes Inn (later the Rhydypennau Inn)
Ceredigion Archives ADX/415 History of Bow Street Volume 2, p. 231
1917
Approved for compensation. Doesn't seem to have gone ahead.
Additional information
Pub sign:
Pub sign, 2006
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Map:
6 inch OS Map, (1906)
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Map:
Rhydypennau Inn, 6 inch map, 1904
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Map:
Rhydypennau Inn, 25 inch map, 1905
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Newspaper:
Three Horse Shoes Compensation hearing
Date: 1917
Photograph:
Exterior of the Rhydypennau
Date: 2015 (approx)
Photograph:
Bar of the Rhydypennau
Date: 2017
Photograph:
Restaurant Rhydypennau Inn
Date: 2017 (approx)
Newspaper:
Manslaughter!
Date: 1864
