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Details of pub: Hope and Anchor, Aberystwyth

Other names:
Address/Location: Little Darkgate Street (now East Gate)
OS Grid Ref: SN5830881772
Opened: c.      
Closed: NOT KNOWN       Type: Pub
Notes: On the list of premises which were provided with water by the Aberystwyth Improvement Commissioners, 1837. Occupier / Landlord: John Morris, 17 Little Darkgate Street (Ceredigion Archives)
1868
Licensee: Lloyd, Mary
Slater’s Directory, 1868
1871
licensee: Mary Lloyd, 22 Little Darkgate Street
source: Post Office directory, 1871

1873 - Illegal Hours - Landlord David Jenkins
"Keeping Open his House during Illegal Hours.—David Jenkins, of the Hope and Anchor Inn, Little Darkgate-street, was charged with keeping open his house after eleven o'clock, on the night of Dec. 7.—P.C. Davies said that on Saturday night, the 7th December, he went to the defendant's house about one o'clock, and as the constable was knocking at the door, he heard footsteps going up the stairs, and on gaining admittance, enquired who it was, but was told that it was no one. The police-constable, on going upstairs, found Morgan Jones in a room where there was no bed, but only some waste clothes. The landlady said he had got into the wrong room, and she would get him another bed. The constable thought Morgan Jones had gone into the room for the purpose of hiding, as he was not undressed. The man, Morgan Jones, did not sleep in the house, but went out soon after the constable left the house, and was seen in the streets about a quarter to two on the Sunday morning, when he admitted that he was in the house.—The defendant said that he and Morgan Jones came from the boat late, in which they had been fishing, and Jones had been asked to the public house to have some bread and cheese with the defendant. When the policeman came, Morgan Jones asked if he could sleep in the house, and he had gone upstairs for the purpose of going to bed, and had been asked to go to bed in the table, and there had been none drawn since a short time after one o'clock.—P.C. Davies said there was beer on the dresser. The man had asked for a bed, but was not asked for any beer.—Defendant was fined £1, and costs." CN 12 Dec 1873
Another Offence against the Licensing Act.—Morgan
Jones was summoned for being in the Hope and Anchor
Inn, as was stated in the last case.—P.C. Davies proved
the case, and said the defendant had asked him why he
(the constable) could not have a glass of beer and be quiet.—
Fined 2s. 6d. and costs. CN same date

1875
Hope and Anchor, David Jenkins, Inn and Public House, Little Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, (Worrall’s Directory, 1875)
1877
New licence granted to Mr Hughes, after Jenkins lost it due to drunkenness. see att
1882
The Bench granted a temporary transfer of the Hope and Anchor Inn from Evan Morgan to Thomas Breese.
Cambrian News 5.5.1882
1884
Albert Fear, Hope and Anchor, 1 Little Darkgate Street
Kelly's trade directory, 1884

1885
An application for the transfer of the license of the Hope and Anchor, Little Darkgate-street, to Mr Frank Fear from his son, was adjourned for a week. Some difficulty seems to have arisen in the matter owing to the fact that Mr Fear held a game license, and it is not legal for these two licenses to be vested in one person. AO 7 Feb 1885

1905
not on 1905 list


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