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  1. swimaway

    swimaway Well-Known Member

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    The 3 Lamps was one of Dylan Thomas' many favoured watering holes, apparently.
     
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  2. Jager

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    Yeah it is, it's across the road from Swansea Castle
     
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  3. mustyfrog

    mustyfrog Well-Known Member

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    is Swansea Castle a pub also?
     
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  4. Jager

    Jager Well-Known Member

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  5. mustyfrog

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    merriman & Stephens , oystermouth rd????
     
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  6. swimaway

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    no, it is a ruin.......... but it can be a favoured outdoor drinking venue for the wino's with their White Lightning
     
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  7. Jager

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    No idea, maybe solicitors or accountants
     
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  8. mustyfrog

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    white lightning is metho for winos?
     
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  9. bongojack

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    Name a pub that has a pavement outside but no road..............................................................Three lamps...old pub question from years gone
     
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  10. mustyfrog

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    here is a classic ad from the prog

    YOU MUST SEE

    The Attractive display of

    selected fireplaces
    latest kitchen furniture
    bathroom suites
    a wide range of solid fuel stoves

    name the company if you can, a hint is st helens rd
     
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  11. bongojack

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    Paul's builders merchants....TW Thomas....FG Trew...?
     
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  12. mustyfrog

    mustyfrog Well-Known Member

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    Fred W Davies
     
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    mustyfrog Well-Known Member

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    does Fred W Davies ring a bell? builders merchants and ironmongers
     
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  14. bongojack

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    Just been thinking.Pauls was at the bottom of Fleet st between Bond st and St Helens rd...Tw Thomas wsa on the corner of St Helens rd and Beach St
     
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    of course ...nice one
     
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    There was also a Gower inn roughly where the quadrant is now 3 pubs in a little group The Gower The Bellevue and The Bluebell...My dad said they were "knocking shops" whatever that means ?!!...there was also The Albion that was by Arthur Bassetts and the Nelson street walkaround store..and further down towards St Marys.The Rutland
     
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  17. Jager

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    About the swan on the kingsway and rumours and the VIP bar just off it ? And my favourite the Cardiff inn (I think ? ) by parc tawe
     
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  18. bongojack

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    Jager..The Cardiff arms in the Strand..great music venue......used the v.i.p. many times plus the swan and rumours and the hanbury
     
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    Ah yeah it was called the Cardiff arms lol, and all those places were my haunts going back some time ago along with, sloanes, marthas, and various others can't think of the names now
     
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    i used to frequent a lovely little place called Pandoras...or "The Pit" as it was affectionally known
     
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