Dylan and Caitlin’s first home together, following their marriage in July 1937, was the small former fisherman’s cottage, Eros, at 2 Gosport Street. They moved in in May 1938, staying until July the same year when they moved to the larger, more comfortable house near the castle, Sea View.

..pokey and ugly, four rooms like stained boxes (Dylan describes Eros in a letter to Henry Treece)

The iconic Boathouse at Laugharne was Dylan’s home for the last four years of his life. Dylan and his family moved into the Boathouse in 1949 after his patron Margaret Taylor purchased the property for £3000. The house with it’s panoramic views over the Taf Estuary provided the Thomas family with a reasonable level of comfort whilst providing Dylan with access to the inspiring natural beauty of its surroundings.

my seashaken house On a breakneck of rocks (from Prologue)

During his time at the Boathouse Dylan worked in his writing shed, a small wooden converted garage nearby. After Dylan’s death Caitlin stayed for only a short time at the Boathouse before moving to Italy after which Dylan’s mother Florence moved in and spent her last five years there. Carmarthenshire County Council acquired the property in the 1970s and after extensive renovations it was opened as a museum and gallery.

The funny thing, is I find myself going back again and again (Aeronwy Thomas Ellis)

Brown’s Hotel is perhaps the drinking haunt most closely associated with Dylan Thomas. Built as a house in the eighteenth century, the King Street hotel was owned by the Williams’ family in the 1950s and was run by Ebie Williams and his wife Ivy. Dylan probably visited the hotel on his first trip to Laugharne in 1934, and by the time he was living in the Boathouse it had become almost a second home. Dylan’s afternoons working in his writing shed were sandwiched between morning and evening visits to Brown’s, and he made close friends of Ebie Williams and particularly Ivy Williams with whom he loved to share local gossip. Following Dylan’s funeral in November 1953 Brown’s hosted his wake, and in 1994 it was the venue for his wife Caitlin’s wake. A fine portrait by Nora Summers pictures Dylan and Caitlin drinking in the bar. The photograph was put up on the wall in the bar when Dylan was still a regular, and the image still hangs on the wall in the bar today. After changes of ownership the hotel closed in 2006 but has recently been restored and now offers boutique accommodation as well as the chance for drinkers to sit in the same bar frequented by Dylan.

It’s a sociable place too, and I like that, with good pubs and little law and no respect (Dylan describes Laugharne in a letter to his American publisher James Laughlin)

Another favourite drinking haunt; Dylan was good friends with landlord Phil Richards.

My father and Phil Richards were Laugharne allies in after-hours drinking and pig-sharing, which Phil kept in the yard beside the Cross House…..In addition, Phil would run him round in a natty 1934 10 Standard car in any outings they arranged. In the bar, my father rarely sat down but liked to talk standing up, smoking Jet and Ace cigarettes (from Aeronwy Thomas’s memoir My Father’s Places)

The pub is still open today.

Another of Dylan’s drinking haunts. During his first recorded visit to Laugharne, in May 1934, with Glyn Jones, he wrote to his girlfriend Pamela Hansford Johnson, “Glyn has gone fishing, and in another half hour the ‘Three Mariners’ will have undone their waistcoats. I shall drink beer with the portreeve, & no crimping pussyfoot shall say me nay.”

Laugharne Lines was created in the Brown’s Hotel bar by writer Jon Tregenna and artist Craig Woods. They envisaged an underground railway system which would include different stops around Laugharne including shops, pubs, restaurants, cafés and museums.