Royal Pembroke - exhibition on Saturday May 5th

We made Saturday a right royal occasion by making ‘Royal Pembroke’ the theme for our Coffee Morning exhibition.  With the Diamond Jubilee imminent we have been collecting material around Royal visits to Pembroke and encouraging people to bring in anything they may have. 

 Pembroke has great Royal connections in its prestigious past and the exhibition traced these back over the centuries. Moving towards more modern times, the earliest photographs we have found were taken, I believe, of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh who came to Pembroke Dock in 1892 to  launch  the ship ‘Edinburgh’. They also travelled to Pembroke and the town was gaily decorated with flags, and amazing arches for their visit. 

We have photographs of subsequent royal visits and are always on the look out for more.  For our part in the Jubilee celebrations we will be showing these in the Henry VII Tower in the Castle – it does take a lot of time and effort to mount an exhibition and it is good to be able to exhibit the lovely old photographs in a place where many more people can see and enjoy them.