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  • This reconstruction drawing, by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, features a wallpainting discovered at the Bell Inn, Abergavenny. The Bell Inn, which is situated in Tudor Street, is a building of eighteenth-century date, although it may have earlier (sixteenth century?) origins.
Detail of a wallpainting at the Bell Inn, Abergavenny (reconstruction drawing)
Wallpainting at the George and Dragon Inn, Beaumaris (reconstruction drawing)
'The Queen's Head Inn, Monmouth', by Mary E. Bagnall-Oakeley
  • Memorandum of Recognizance of Margaret Rowlands of Talycafn [Tal-y-cafn], innholder, to keep good order in her common inn and alehouse.
Memorandum of Recognizance, 7 September 1787
  • Richard Burton, Hollywood superstar and classical actor, is pictured here in his home town of Pont-rhyd-y-fen. The star of 'Under Milkwood', 'Cleopatra', and 'The Spy who came in from the Cold' is one of several internationally famous actors from the Swansea / Neath area, including Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta Jones.
Richard Burton with his father and brother in the Miners Arms, Pont-rhyd-y-fen
  • Horn cup from the 'Miner's Arms', Amlwch. The owner of the cup was possibly a copper miner who regularly drank in this public house.
Horn cup inscribed 'J. P. Jones, Miner's Arms, 1848. 'Y creigiau yw fy'm trigfanau' (The rocky places are my home)