Pembroke and Monkton Local History Society

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Supporting Macmillan's Pancake Day March 4th

Rose Blackburn , Town Crier, with Dilys Hanmer, County President of Macmillan

Members of the Pembroke Macmillan Committee in front of the History Society display

The History Society has much support in the community. We are not an inward looking organisation: quite the opposite as we aim to work with other voluntary community groups, helping where we can. On Tuesday it was Pancake Day at Pembroke Town Hall organised by the Pembroke Committee of Macmillan Cancer Support. We gave assistance and displayed our Welsh costume exhibition to add interest to the event – it was a marvellous morning – the pancakes were good too!

St David's Event March 1st

Part of our St David's Day exhibition

St David's Day lunch at Monkton Church Hall

St David’s Day is well celebrated nowadays and each year our Society organises something with a Welsh flavour to mark the event. Instead of the usual Coffee Morning, this year we put on a St David’s Day Lunch which proved very popular, a lovely community get together where people could meet up with friends and acquaintances. The food was excellent with soup cooked by Rhian Nash and Pauline Waters accompanied by much Welsh fare and cakes brought in by so many. Accompanying the meal were various stalls and an exhibition of 19Cth Welsh costume which we now have on loan from Pembrokeshire Museum’s Service. This was a joint fundraising event with Monkton Priory Church and together we raised a total of £329.50 for the church.

Our AGM February 21st

George Lewis talking about Edwardian Inventions

We held our 4th AGM last Friday and despite the wintry conditions, it attracted a large gathering, alhough I would hazard a guess that this was due more to our guest speaker than a desire to attend the meeting! However, an AGM is a necessary requisite of a constituted organisation and we needed to consult our membership on an important development for the Society. It has now been decided that we apply for charitable status and to this end we shall be working with PAVS (Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services).
Having got the business over and done with George Lewis (our President) provided the entertainment in a humorous talk about Edwardian Inventions. George was in good form and had the audience in stitches! It certainly rounded off the evening well and, with the additional treat of coffee and homemade bara brith, everyone went off happily into the night.