Saturday May 3rd Coffee Morning and Talk

Saturday's event was very well attended as you can see from the photographs! Our popular speaker was Andy Jones who gave us a most entertaining and interesting talk about ‘St Catherine's Island, Tenby: its History, Restoration and Future’. Andi, who is the Island Coordinator, gave a brief history of the Island and Fort covering news on its restoration, present uses, volunteers and future plans as a visitor attraction and venue. Please note, this is the last talk in our current programme: we will launch a new programme of talks on October 4th ie the first Saturday of the month. Also - Good news! The Town Hall building works are now complete and we were able to open up the Museum to visitors during the coffee morning. From now on it will be open weekdays 10am - 3pm, Fridays 10am to 1pm.

Next Event - Saturday May 3rd

Quiz Night April 25th

Friday's Quiz Night was again well attended with 10 tables filled. Our Quiz Nights are fun occasions with a buffet at half time and lots to eat! Quiz Master was Rose Blackburn and the worthy winners were Prue Pattison, Meg Burrell, Diana Turberville, Glynis Atherton and Margaret Howells.

Quiz Night on Friday April 25th

Saturday April 3rd - Your Family Tree

On Saturday we welcomed Colin Potter of the Dyfed Family History Society as our speaker of the month. It was a most interesting talk giving tips on how to go about researching your family tree with examples based on his own family history research in Pembrokeshire. As usual we began the morning with a Coffee Morning but, again, we were unable to open up the museum because of ongoing building works. We do hope that normal service will be resumed in time for our next talk on May 3rd, when Andi Jones will talk to us about St Catherine's Island, Tenby: its History, Restoration and Future. I will post when the museum will open again - hopefully after Easter. In the photograph: Colin & Cate Potter with History Society Trustees Ron Rees, Linda Asman and Roy Smith

April Events

St David's Day in Pembroke Town Hall

Our St David's Day celebration was very well supported. We were not able to open up the Museum as usual as the Town Hall is undergoing repair works. Instead, for entertainment, we showed a silent movie from the Museum's Haggar collection - the Maid of Cefn Ydfa, based on a Welsh tale of tragic love. This was followed by a talk by Society Chairman, Linda Asman, on the Welsh Princes and the Evolution of Wales and the day ended with our national anthem 'Mae Hen Wlad Fy nhadau. It was a rousing finish to an enjoyable morning. We have also assembled a St David's display in the window next to Brown's Cafe in Main Street with artefacts from Pembroke Museum's Welsh Collection.