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Ye history of ye Ty Coch Inn & Porthdinllaen

The hamlet of Porthdinllaen has existed since the sixteenth century but most of the houses now here, date from about 1800.

Ty Coch itself was built in 1823.

It was built out of red brick which was imported through this port from Holland.  It was probably brick which was used as ballast for a ship which had taken granite from here to Holland. The cellar is much older than this and down there we have windows and a fireplace which are now below ground level

For the first five years of its life it was the vicarage for he vicar of Edern.  In 1828 a vicarage was built next to the church and eventually Ty Coch ceased to be the second vicarage as the vicar The Rev. John Parry Jones Parry moved out entirely leaving his housekeeper, Catherine Ellis to open the building as an Inn in 1842 to supply refreshment to the shipbuilding workforce who worked on the beach.

Ty Coch was in competition, certainly with the Whitehall Inn and reputedly at one time, a total of four other pubs on the beach. Only Ty Coch survives as a pub today.

Innkeepers to date ( as we know it )

1842-50 Catherine Ellis

1850-57 Ellis & Elinor Hughes

1857-60 Closed ( long lunch hour)

1860 -64 (?) Laura Thomas

1864-71 William Griffiths

1871-90 Jane Hughes (nee Linton) mother of

1890- c1932 Jane Jones (nee Linton) She was the innkeeper, harbourmaster and ran a school in Ty Coch for mariners children.

Mrs Jane Jones ( nee Linton)

1932-35 Owain Jones  (Cox of the Porthdinllaen lifeboat "The M.O.Y.E.")

Owain Jones

1935-66 Louis Pritchard Thomas

1966-68 Hugh Williams

Hugh Williams ( Hughie)

1968 - Present     Clifford and Brione Webley (Cliff & Brione)

Cliff Webley (our leader !)

Brione Webley the current landlady