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Details of pub: Crown Bach, Lampeter / Llanbedr Pont Steffan
Other names:Address/Location: High St
OS Grid Ref:
Opened: before 1870
Closed: c. 1880 Type: Beerhouse
Summary:
R.D.writing in the Carmarthen Journal in 1935 in his column “65 years ago”, remembers the Crown Bach being run by 2 brothers, Billy and Thomas Jenkins. They held the sole agency in the district for Nortons Brewery, Carmarthen. Nortons’ wagon was drawn by 4 horses, bringing its load of 9-gallon casks.The brothers also sold beer brewed at Llannon, and sometimes “used it to stiffen-up house-brew when weak”.
Notes:
1871
Anne Jenkins, Ale merchant
Census, 1871
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