Following on from last year's glorious show of wild flowers at Bankers Walk on Pembroke Commons, the Pembroke Town Heritage and Environment group had been asked by many members of the public to try and achieve the same results again this year. It was agreed over winter to go ahead, and also to take on three other smaller areas nearby. Volunteers got together at the beginning of the month and the site of bare earth seen below has been sown with a Golden Girl seedmix. Hopefully, the result will be similar to the photograph of the blooming bed seen here. Volunteers involved with the group's ingoing floral enhancement of Pembroke include Barbara Rae, Angela Beharrel, David Holmes, Gwen Griffiths, Jonathan Beharrel, John Crum, Irena Kruzona, Nikki Anderson, Mo James and Lynn Muir.

New leaflets for Pembroke

The group have been successful in being awarded almost £5,000 funding from Awards for All to produce two new leaflets for Pembroke - the first in a planned series aimed at residents and visitors alike. The theme of the first two leaflets will be a town nature trail, and a children's 'Can you find it?'. The full list aims to include the following, though not necessarily in this order: 1. Around the town walls; 2. Medieval Pembroke; 3. Old water-tap sites, early electricity, and telegraph; 4. Places of Worship, past and present; 5. Kingsbridge and Holyland Estate - house, family and wood; 6. Princess Nest - a Welsh legend; 7. An updated town trail with new map; 8. South Pembrokeshire's ancient past; 9. Pembroke Story in the Tabernacle and cave, garden and Victorian schoolroom; 10. Chimneys and other architectural gems; 11. Pembroke's geology, and that of the South Pembs. Peninsular. The leaflets will feature a new artists map - more about this next month!

Pembroke Dock - our neighbour

The theme of April's memory sharing event in the Tabernacle was Pembroke Dock - our neighbour - linked to the 200th anniversary of the town's creation in 1814. We were grateful to Mr. Ron Watts and to the Port Authority and Irish Ferries for the use of their exceptional images, and to all other contributors including Mr. Ted Rogers, pictured with event co-ordinator Nikki Anderson. Memories included Teasdales, the business premises once situated by the market. It was bombed in the war and later rebuilt as a convent. The shop sold fine linen, haberdashery and expensive hats and gloves. A fascination to children - payment for goods was put into a screw-top container that was then 'rocketed' up to the office. Happy memories.