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Details of pub: Padarn Temperance Hotel, Aberystwyth
Other names: Padarn Coffee Tavern
Address/Location: 14 Great Darkgate Street
OS Grid Ref: SN5834781684
Opened: 1885
Closed: after 1897 Type: Temperance
Summary: Opened in mid-1885 (CN), gas explosion in 1894, but still open in 1897(CN 10 sept 1897).
Prop: William Evans 1885, Misses Evans 1890, Margaret Evans 1897
Notes: 1887
PADARN TEMPERANCE HOTEL, 14, GREAT DARKGATE STREET, Open from 7 in the morning till 11 at night. Breakfasts, Dinners, and Suppers at a few minutes' notice. Fresh Milk, Butter, and Eggs from the farm daily. Well Aired Beds. Note the Address- William Evans, Padarn Temperance Hotel, 14, Great Dark gate-street.
CAMBRIAN NEWS 16.6.1887
1897 "a young servant girl named Margaret Jane Jenkins of Llanbadarn Fawr was charged by the Chief Constable with having stolen four knives, three forks, six tea spoons, and a quantity of cooked ham from the Padarn Coffee Tavern, Great Darkgate-street, on the previous evening.-Margaret Evans, proprietress of the Padarn Coffee Tavern, stated that accused had been employed at the Coffee Tavern for some years off and on. She had been with them all through the summer but slept at home." Cambrian News 10 Sept 1897
Additional information
Newspaper:
Advert for Padarn Temperance Hotel
Date: 1887
Newspaper:
Report of explosion at Padarn Temperance Hotel
Date: 1894
