Our next Coffee Morning and Talk will take place on Saturday, May 2nd in Pembroke Town Hall. There has been a change to the original programme: the advertised speaker has withdrawn, but Society Chairman Linda Asman will step in with a talk that is especially relevant to the group —‘Monkton: A Hidden History’. Linda was invited to give a similar talk to the Pembrokeshire History Society last October, following strong interest in the book she co-authored with Keith Johnson and many members of the old Monkton community who contributed their memories.
The Society was originally based in Monkton Church Hall, and its very first public meeting was a walk through Monkton led by the late Pauline Waters. That event sparked the sharing of memories and photographs and the beginnings of a local archive. The Society’s very first publication was ‘Monkton: A Sense of Place’, a leaflet written by Linda, illustrated by George Lewis and funded by Planed. Continued research eventually led to the publication of 'Monkton: Hidden History' that proved so popular it is now out of print — though available to read online on the Soceity's website.
