Hi Keith
I also have connections with Abergavenny including Tudor Street. The following is from a book of photographs I bought recently:
Vanished Abergavenny
From the collections of Abergavenny Museum
Compiled by Frank Olding © 1994
"Tudor Street (Stryd Porth Tudur) ... the oldest buildings in the street were built before 1550. Until the middle of the 19th century, Tudor Street was the wealthiest suburb of the town, the area where wealthy merchants and respectable town burgesses built large, comfortable residences for themselves and their families. However, as the 19th century wore on, the social make-up of the street changed. The grand houses were sub-divided into tenements and small cottages were built in the gardens and coachyards to the rear. By the 1890s, the street was being described as "a populous working-class district." Demolitions commenced in 1957 [under the Abergavenny Borough Council's 'slum clearance' schemes] and buildings which were thought to contain "nothing of historical or architectural interest" proved to be much older than their facades suggested. Early 17th century wall paintings almost unique in Wales were found beneath layers of wallpaper and paint. A great deal was destroyed before it could even be recorded for posterity."
So sad!
What number Tudor Street are you interested in? Mine was at No 22, Cymreigyddion Hall where the eisteddfod were held in the 1840s, long demolished and now a carpark.
THE website for Monmouthshire resources is Mike John's:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monfamilies/monfh.htmI looked for Joseph Hart's burial in the parish record transcripts, but he's not at St Mary's Abergavenny — perhaps he was non-conformist.
Cheers
Koromo
PS. The Forester's Arms was on the corner of Pant Lane and Tudor Street, and it didn't survive. Below is the same street corner on Google Earth with Tudor Street the west-east road and Pant Lane running northwards — where the cars are parked is where the pub was. I think they are all modern buildings on the north side of Tudor St.