Plaque on the Lamb Inn at Penderyn

Image: © Jeremy Bolwell Taken: 27 Oct 2013

This little blue plaque commemorates the part this old roadside inn played in the Merthyr Rising of 1831, when it was used to incarcerate Lewis Lewis, a ringleader of the protesting workers once he had been arrested at the height of the protests, the roots cause of which was reduced wages, poor working conditions, harsh treatment of unemployed workers, the debtor's courts seizing goods and general simmering unrest due to the disparity between the working classes and the mineowners, ironmasters and the upper classes. Here Lewis Lewis must have learned that the likely outcome for him would be hanging, or at best transportation and penal servitude in Australia. His frustration and anger must be palpable within these walls still.

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