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Details of pub: Union, Aberystwyth

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Address/Location: Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth
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Opened: c.      
Closed: NOT KNOWN       Type: Pub
Summary: Meeting place of the Union Society, established or first registered: 1812, until they moved to the Lord Hill, Aberystwyth (Evans, George Eyre, Aberystwyth Friendly Societies' Welsh Gazette, 12.4.1900 and 19.4.1900)

Meeting place of the True Britons’ Benefit Society , established or first registered: 1830, until they moved to the Castle Inn, Aberystwyth. (Evans, George Eyre, Aberystwyth Friendly Societies' Welsh Gazette, 12.4.1900 and 19.4.1900)
(actually est. Easter 1831 PP)

Notes: 1822
John Owen, Union, Great Darkgate Street (Pigot’s directory, 1822)
1825
licensee: Elizabeth Owens
St Michaels Vestry Rate lists, Ceredigion Archives, CPR/ASTM/123-128
1826
licensee: Elizabeth Owens
St Michaels Vestry Rate lists, Ceredigion Archives, CPR/ASTM/123-128
1830
licensee: Elizabeth Owen,
source: Pigot and Co, 1830


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