Explore the database
The database currently contains details of 1002 pubs and other premises, 256 places and 209 people. There are also 329 photos and postcards, 80 pub signs, 672 newspaper articles, 253 maps and 104 documents. About 134 pubs are still open.Use the options below to search the database.
N.B. Some pubs do not appear on the maps as we do not have a definite location for them.
Quick search
Browse the database Advanced searchSomething not right? Got extra information? Please contact us and tell us more!
Details of pub: Unknown, Bow Street
Other names:
Address/Location:
OS Grid Ref: SN622846
Opened: before 1819
Closed: before 1900 Type: Pub
Notes: I went to a little public house at Bow Street, and had some boiled bread and milk, the courtesy of the woman, not allowing me to indulge my taste by eating the barley meal bread, but forcing on me a stale, half-baked loaf of wheaten bread 'as being more fit for shentle folks to eat'. This is far from the first time that I suffered from being taken for a gentleman and I am sure that within 20 miles of London, I should, from my dress, be set down as 50 removes from that character. I arrived at Machynlleth, bathed my feet in hot water and ordered tea at the White Lion, appearing a second rate sort of place, had a bason of egg ale which was capital and went to bed at 9.30. Slept very sound in spite of the attack of myriads of fleas, the effects of which discovered on awakening.
Jenkin Jones, (Captain, R.N.), Tour in England and Wales, May - June, 1819. Trans Historical Society of West Wales, I, (1911), 97-144
Additional information
