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Details of person: Mid Wales Hotel Company,

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Notes:The Mid Wales Hotel Company took over the bankrupt Hafod Hotel Company. Both companies owned the Queen's Hotel, Aberystwyth and the Hafod Hotel, Devil's Bridge and J.B. Balcombe was their managing director. In 1876 The Hafod Hotel was bought by John Waddingham of Hafod (when Balcombe became bankrupt again?)

1866

Hafod Arms Hotel as part of the Hafod Hotel Company was purchased by : MID-WALES HOTEL CO. LTD., Report of the Hafod Hotel Company which is to be wound up

Aberystwyth Observer, 23.11.1866

1867

Article re the winding up of the Hafod Hotel Company

Aberystwyth Observer, 26.1.1867

1867

Article about the new company, the Mid Wales Hotel Company Ltd which consists of many of the same people as the former company.

Aberystwyth Observer, 16.2.1867, 2.3.1867

1867

The Queen’s Hotel at Aberystwyth and the Hafod Arms at Devil’s Bridge (formerly belonging to the Hafod Hotel Company), have been purchased by a new company and registered as the ‘Mid-Wales Hotel Company (Limited).

Black's Guide to North and South Wales, (Edinburgh, 1867), Corrections for 1867, pp. iii-v. quoted from the Mid-Wales Hotel Company’s prospectus





1872-1873

Income Tax Returns for The Mid Wales Hotel Company

Ceredigion Archives, RE/PT/2/28, Formerly catalogued as NLW Roberts & Evans Z 40, Z 42, and Z 44.



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Hafod Arms , Devil's Bridge, Devil's Bridge

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