Brigands Inn Mallwydd

[wilcoxon]

 I found a small `brochure` if that`s what you would call it  in a junk shop.
It`s  accomodation information for the Brigands Inn, Mallwyd.
It must be pre 1971 as the prices are in `old money`.
Eleven and a half guineas for a week , all inclusive.
Lunch 9/6 . Tea 3/6. Dinner 13/6.
Bed and Breakfast from 25/-

Resident proprieters - Mr & Mrs H A Shaw, telephone Dinas Mawddwy 208.

Just wondering if anyone knows when these people were there, in order to date this.
Also inside is a photo card of the Inn with the writing  Cyril Davies  - re the cottage, and the address 52 Tregarth, Machynlleth .

[rrob]

I worked at Brigands Inn, Mallwyd in 1958/59 when it was owned by a Mr & Mrs Jones who later sold and moved along the road to open a guest house near Minnlyn.  Brigands Inn, now altered still does good business and looks well.

[wilcoxon]

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[Hstan]

The Mr & Mrs Jones you are writing about were my Grandparents. They, however, did not open a guest house down the road it was a private house. The person that they sold the house on to, converted it into a guest house/ hotel  Leading on from that my parents bought it in the late seventies.

[Rol]

Mere curiosity,  but now this topic has been broached . . .  Does anyone happen to know who decided to change the place's name from the Peniarth Arms,  alias the Cross Foxes,  to the Brigands' Inn -- and (leaving aside the old stories of Mawddwy banditry) when and why they did so?


Rol

[Hstan]

Re name change.
The Hotel was renamed the Brigands Inn by my Grandfather Clarence Jones in March 1951 prior to that it was known as the "Bury" My mother and father cannot remember when it was renamed from the Peniarth Arms.

[Hstan]

P.S. He changed the name to Brigands Inn so that people would know that it was under new management (according to my mother)

[Rol]

Thank you very much for that info,  Hstan.  High quality and precise firsthand historical evidence!  Excellent to have it on the record.

Now we have a re-formulated puzzle.  I had no idea that the inn was once known as the Bury.  Therefore I hereby re-post my query -- 

. . .  Does anyone happen to know who decided to change the place's name from the Peniarth Arms,  alias the Cross Foxes,  to the Brigands' Inn -- and ... when and why they did so?

-- substituting the words "the Bury" for the words "the Brigands' Inn" . . .


Rol

[walesyddraiggoch]

Hey

Cyril Davies is my Grandad!  He use to go to the Brigands before 1970 times.