Not sure if these are arriving at the Hotel or just off on an afternoon jaunt! The vehicle at the rear, although not strictly a charabanc, seems to have been able to seat 12 young men.
This Hotel later became known as the Glan Hotel and for many years the landlord was Mr Dewi Harries. Although no longer a hotel but a private residence, it has now returned to its original name. see also Glan Hotel
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Although I am a latecomer to Dinas ( first visit in1947 as a toddler) it seems to me that Dinas was always a very popular home for Master Mariners. My Godparents (Capt. and Mrs Bill and Lettice Mendus) owned Merton Hall for many years. T’was they who told me of this popular local piece. Perhaps the Captains had to live apart from their men,many of whom hailed from Fishguard where every second house had a son who went to sea !
My maternal grandparents, Thomas and Mary Jenkins were licensees of the Glanffynnon, Dinas until about 1901.
Then they moved to Lower Town, first to the Old Dinas Arms a pub on the old hill, and then the Dinas Arms Hotel on the junction of Newport Rd and Quay St. All the pubs were owned by the George family of Haverfordwest. My mother’s eldest brother, Bertie later a Master Mariner, was born in the Glan, my Mother was born in 1902 in The Dinas Arms Lower Town. In conversation she always preferred to it as “The Hotel”
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