Cuba InnIvor St./Corner House Inn Dowlais

[jaz]

Happy New Year to You All

I recently found out that relatives had run The Corner House Inn at Ivor Street and also the Cuba Inn, has anyone any knowledge of these Inn`s at all, i would like to find our more information if at all possible, thank you
Jaz

[Alan]

Hi Jaz,
We have a photograph of the Cuba Inn www.alangeorge.co.uk/Images4-A-H/Dowlais_IvorStreet_TheCubaInn.JPG.

Alan

[jaz]

Hi Alan,
you would`nt know what year the photo was taken by any chance, is the building still there today at all,

Thank you, Jaz

[Alan]

Hi Jaz,
I'm not sure when the photograph was taken, possibly 1900-1910.
Ivor Street still exists but the old buildings were demolised in the 1970s and new houses erected in their place.
Alan

[jaz]

Hi Alan,
Thank you for the information, if the photo is about that date, the family would be my grt grt Uncle David Davies and his family he ran the Pub from 1871 up until his death 1911 then it passd to one of his daughters, such a great find, thank you,
Jaz

[ken]

The Elliott family lived there in the 1960s,they had two sons
Roy and Matt
ken

[garethdg]

the photo of the cuba inn looks like the beehive which was on the corner of ivor street and the road leading to the central station, my grandfather lived across the road there was 2 three
storey houses backing on to the ivor works.i was in school Billy Elliot who lived there

[wrenjim]

I have family that show up on the 1911 census as living at the Cuba Inn. The names are James & Julia Wren (My grandparents) and their children including my father. My father was born in Newbridge on Wye but they moved to Dowlais sometime before 1901 as on that census they are shown as living at 26/27 North Street.

If anyone has any other information I would be interested to know.

[jaz]

Hi Wrenjim,
Are there others mentioned at the Cuba Inn in the 1911c as i was told
that it was left in my grt Uncles will to one of his children,

[nina]

reply to Jaz re Corner House Inn . Have we spoken before ? David Davies was my great grandfather . He left the Inn in 1911 to live in Charlotte Street .( probably because his 2nd wife Zipporah ...my gr grandmother ...dies in 1911 . He did not die until 1916 . In his will .he left various houses to his surviving daughters and 2 freehold farms ( Carmarthenshire ) to his sons . Corner House is not in his will but my information is that Cuba Inn was left to his daughter Martha ( Whom I knew as my great auntie Maudie ...and stayed with her several times . She married George Hutton . Through whom is David your uncle ?