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The author of Pembrokeshire book describes this pic as houses on the edge of the cliff. The buildings are actually an ex wartime camp containing a searchlight unit and some coastal guns. Now a caravan park.
Contributed by Mr Edwards
Dyfed memories
The author of Pembrokeshire book describes this pic as houses on the edge of the cliff. The buildings are actually an ex wartime camp containing a searchlight unit and some coastal guns. Now a caravan park.
A memory of Fishguard contributed by Mr Edwards
Pre-history
The centre of Trecwn lies in a valley within say, two kilometres of three ancient hill settlements. I visited one which had a "roadway" entrance carved or hacked through the rock. At the time I felt I wanted to know more of life in that place as it was about 2000 to 3000 years' ago. I still feel the same about life in that place (as it was about 2056 to 3056 years' ago)!
My wonderful childhood
I was Born in 1968, and resided in a small 2 bedroom house in Maes Morfa, Newport Pembs with my elder brother, sister and mother and father. Little did I know how blessed I was. Although life seemed to be quite difficult in those days, money was short and hard to come by, yet I feel we were born into a wealth of beauty living in Newport. From my parents window we overlooked the local playing fields and Newport Estuary and as far as Berry Hill farm acarage. The river was enriched with many different birds, their songs and cries all a part of my recognition of home. From a very young age The Parrog became a place we ...read more here
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Extracts From Fishguard & Dyfed books
The old fort seen on the
headland of Castle Point
was completed in 1781
and boasted eight
cannons, each capable
of firing a nine or twelve-
pound shot.
An extract from from"Pembrokeshire Photographic Memories".
This view shows the
higher part of the town.
Note the Rees, Baker &
Co., Fishguard delivery
cart and the Great
Western Hotel on the
left. In the pre-railway
days coaches left from
this hotel to connect
with the railway at
Haverfordwest — a two-
and-a-quarter-hour journey.
An extract from from"Pembrokeshire Photographic Memories".
The Great Western Railway (GWR) steamers seen
alongside the harbour have now been replaced
by the Irish ferries operating from Goodwick.
Warehouses can be seen centre and on the right.
During the American War of Independence, an
American privateer under the command of either
Stephen Manhant or the (in)famous Paul Jones in
his Black Prince, seized a ship belonging to
Samuel Fenton, and landed a raiding party. He
threatened to bombard the town unless a ransom
of 500 guineas for the ship and 500 guineas for
the town were paid over. It is uncertain whether
the ransoms were in fact paid, but the Black
Prince fired broadsides into the town before the
raiders were eventually seen off. Note the railway
carraiges behind the steamers.
An extract from from"Pembrokeshire Photographic Memories".
This very attractive fishing port used to be a busy port for agricultural and fish product exports. The impressive harbour with its fine breakwater was constructed in 1906, in an effort to entice the great sea-going ships away from Liverpool and Southampton, but this idea came to nothing. Fishguard is famous for the defeat and capture of a French ‘invasion force’ in 1797, by the women of the town! The French force, which comprised a rag tail collection of drunken troops and released prisoners, attempted to land near the town. Hundreds of the town’s women had donned scarlet clothes in order to look like soldiers, and this bluff, together with the effects of the alcohol, forced the French to surrender. One group of women, headed by a ‘Jemima Fawr’, and armed just with pitchforks, caught a dozen soldiers. This incident has the distinction of being the last invasion of British soil by a foreign power.
An extract from from"Wales Living Memories".
This is not so much of a square as a roundabout these days. There is no car parking today, but a busy road junction
with a cannon in the centre. The shop in the centre of the photo at this time was run by A Francis, to the left was
W R Eynon and Sons, General Ironmongers. The Abergwaun Hotel still trades. The Royal Oak, part of which can be
seen on the right has the claim to fame of reputedly being the place in which the official surrender of the invasion
was signed on 22 February 1797. Note the rubber-tyred horse-drawn cart in the foreground.
An extract from from"Pembrokeshire Photographic Memories".