George for President

We have grown so much as an organisation that we felt, as a committee, that we needed to elect a president. Artist and local personality George Lewis, who has worked closely with us, accepted the role to great applause from the assembled members. George, as well as being an accomplished artist has a great knowledge of Pembroke's history as can be seen from the Pembroke Murals displayed in Pembroke Town Hall which he painted with his wife Jeanne. Pembroke, as well as being so rich in history has a great artistic heritage as well: many of the great topographical artists came here to paint the castle and surroundings. So who better than George to be our president?

We launch our Pembroke Leaflet

On Saturday February 4th we launched our Pembroke Sense of Place leaflet. We were amazed that so many people turned up on such a horrible, dark wet day - but inside the Church Hall the atmosphere was quite the opposite. A hugely successful event - makes all the hard work worthwhile.

It is surprising how much time and effort goes into the production of these leaflets - all the writing and rewriting, the proof reading, the tweaking (writing the history of Pembroke in 1800 words is quite a challenge!) . George Lewis did the illustrations which are lovely and Kate Lindley of Planed supervised the production and funded the leaflet. It is bilingual and pdfs of the leaflet in Welsh and in English are to be made available on the website to download.

Coldest day of the year yet - Castle Pond freezes

The mild winter suddenly got colder and the Castle Pond began to freeze over yesterday, but only partly so. Contrast last year when it froze over completely at the end of November!! It was bitterly cold and would you believe it? Our central heating boiler broke down! All credit to British Gas - they were here this morning at 8 am to mend it. Well done!

We talk to Pembroke's Darby and Joan Club

Had a lovely afternoon on Thursday - we were invited along to the Darby and Joan Club at Pembroke Town Hall. We gave a film show and talked about the work we are doing in the Local History Society. Afterwards we had a nice tea and even won a raffle prize!

February Events

Quiz Night January 20th - What a Night!!

This month's Quiz Night broke all records - we couldn't believe the numbers attending: in all 61 people!! Oh my God, have we got enough food? That was went through our minds as the folks poured through the door! But we are indeed fortunate that we have marvellous caterers on the committee and everyone was able to enjoy the usual high standard of buffet people have come to expect. Thank you to all but especially to the extraordinarily talented Liz Jenkins, Ann Lankshear and Pauline Waters. Pauline is our Quiz master as well and always makes these Quizzes a good laugh. Even if you are pants at quizzes (like me) it doesn't really matter - its such an enjoyable social evening: everyone left in a happy mood. Our next Quiz Night will be on Friday, March 16th, Monkton Priory Church Hall at 7.30pm.

Wednesday January 11th - our belated Christmas dinner!

We met at the Royal George for a belated Christmas dinner but particularly to take George Lewis out for a meal in the way of a big 'thank you' for all the help he has given us. Local artist George and his wife Jeanne painted the Pembroke Murals which are on display in Pembroke Town Hall and George has illustrated our two heritage leaflets: the Pembroke leaflet will be launched on Saturday February 4th at Monkton Church Hall 10.30 am.