A 12 hour breakdown in the electricity supply seriously inconvenienced many people in the holiday village of Penally.

The giant Llysyfran dam was under construction.

Very much a man of our times, Methodist minister Dr. Cyril Gwyther chose his Tenby pulpit as a platform for his views on the threat to close the Whitland to Pembroke Dock Railway line.

A Swiss girl, 20 year-old Herrman Maza was crowned Miss Tenby.

The wedding took place at Carew Methodist Church of Tenby hairstylists Mr. Philip Christopher Phillips, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Esmond Phillips of Pembroke Dock and Miss Christine Mary Hicks, the daughter of Mrs. J.R. Hicks and the late Mr. G.Hicks of Carew.

Mum Sandra Hughes, of the Dingle, St, Florence was chosen as ‘Miss St. Florence 1969’ at a dance organised by St Florence WI. Sixteen ladies paraded for the tittle.

For the second year in succession, the Martlewtwy and District Agricultural and Horticultural show was without classes owning to the brucellosis eradication scheme in force, yet there appeared to be no fall off in either the number of competitors or spectators.

Whitland Week’s carnival and fete at Parc Dr Owen was to be opened by Miss Pat Phoenix aka Elise Tanner of television’s Coronation Street

Showing at the Royal Playhouse in Tenby: Gregory Peck, Ann Heywood and Arthur Hill in the Most Dangerous Man in the World.