Qualla: Black Boy Inn https://qualla.com/black-boy-inn en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Black Boy Inn https://qualla.com/black-boy-inn Black Boy Inn: Introduction https://qualla.com/black-boy-inn/ Step through the low door off Northgate Street and the temperature drops, the light dims, and the floorboards announce every step. The Black Boy Inn has been pouring drinks inside Caernarfon's medieval town walls for roughly five hundred years - the building is thought to date to 1522, putting it among the oldest continuously trading inns in North Wales. The town that grew up around it was a colonial garrison settlement, planted by Edward I to police a freshly conquered country. The Black Boy is older than most of the houses that surround it and older than Wales's union with England.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/black-boy-inn-wp/gcky-black-boy-inn-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Black Boy Inn: Three Theories, One Sign https://qualla.com/black-boy-inn/ The name has been a small ongoing controversy. The earliest written reference appears in a Caernarfon deed of sale from 1717, recording a property in 'Street Y Black Boy'. From there, three explanations compete. One traces it to a black buoy that once marked the nearby harbour en...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/black-boy-inn-wp/gcky-black-boy-inn-three-theories-one-sign.mp3 0:06 2 full Black Boy Inn: Inside the Walls https://qualla.com/black-boy-inn/ The Black Boy sits a few hundred yards from Caernarfon Castle, tucked just behind the town walls Edward I raised between 1283 and 1285. The North Gate archway at the end of the street is newer than it looks - it was punched through the medieval fabric in the 1820s to ease horse t...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/black-boy-inn-wp/gcky-black-boy-inn-inside-the-walls.mp3 0:06 3 full Black Boy Inn: The Nun and the Skeleton https://qualla.com/black-boy-inn/ Like most very old pubs, the Black Boy collects stories. The most persistent is the ghost of a nun said to drift through the rooms on her way to a vanished nunnery that once stood at the rear of the building. There is also a real find. In 1990 an archaeological dig alongside the ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/black-boy-inn-wp/gcky-black-boy-inn-the-nun-and-the-skeleton.mp3 0:06 4 full Black Boy Inn: Real Ale, Real Time https://qualla.com/black-boy-inn/ The modern Black Boy takes its beer seriously. It won the Cask Marque award for the quality of its cask ales in both 2008 and 2009, and appeared in the 2010 Good Beer Guide published by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale. The food leans Welsh - lamb cawl, Anglesey crab when it is i...

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