Dylan Thomas' watering hole

Dylan Thomas moved to New Quay in September 1944, eager to escape from both the war and from London. After staying for a while in Bosham in Sussex and then at Beaconsfield with his friend Donald Taylor, he moved to the little bungalow called 'Majoda' just along the coast road which branches off the B4342 opposite the Cambrian Hotel.

He brought with him to New Quay his wife Caitlin, his newly born daughter, Aeronwy and his son, Llewelyn, who had previously been living with Caitlin's mother in Ringwood in Hampshire. From Majoda, Thomas could walk along Brongwyn Lane (now partly lost to the sea) into New Quay where his favourite pub was the Black Lion run by his friend 'Jack Pat' and where Dylan Thomas memorabilia can still be seen in 'Dylan's Restaurant'.